A solo-performance that positions the human body at it's centre and explores it's radical interconnectedness with sound, light and space. The performer acts and reacts until the control over his body drifts away and the space he inhabits (the image he composes) begins to deconstruct.

Collaborators
Elias Kurth (Direction/Installation/Performance), Daniel Steiner (Live-Sound), Nik Friedli (Light/Installation), Anouk Gyssler (Dramaturgical Support), I-Fen Lin and Lisa Stepf (Outside Eye)
Senta Amacker, Elias Kurth (Costume), Joris Camelin (Voice Coach), Elias Raum (Production)

Length
Fifty-five minutes

Co-production
Bühne Aarau, Südpol Luzern

Supported by
Aargauer Kuratorium, Fondation Nestlé Pour L'Art, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Hans und Lina Blattner Stiftung, Stadt Aarau und Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung

Further Support
Théâtre du Marché aux Grains de Bouxwiller, Theater Marie (Residencies)

Year
2021

News

‣ February 24

Physical Ideas For Abroad
Performance as part of 2 4 0 2 2 4
21H30, Dampfzentrale Bern

‣ March 23

Landscape of Hyper
Premiere
Saturday March 23, 20H, Alte Reithalle, Bühne Aarau
Tuesday March 26, 20H
Wedensday March 27, 20H

About

Elias Kurth (b. 1984 in Aarau, Switzerland) is an artist, choreographer, performer and architect based in Marseille and Aarau. Working across these disciplines, Elias Kurth explores the tensions between fictional and factual spaces, between individual fantasies and societal realities.
The projects vary in scale, duration and media, and always draw from the human body as a source of knowledge. Using movement as a thinking tool, Kurth develops intersections between performance, architecture and visual arts. His curiosity for the yet unknown and a strong sense for spaces and emotions create situational poignant experiences. The work, ranging from sensitive gestures to brute physical acts, reveals his playful reading of internal and external realities and their conflicts.

Elias Kurth graduated from London Contemporary Dance School ‘The Place’ (2009) and worked with several choreographers such as Lea Anderson, Requardt&Rosenberg or Compagnie Shifts. He graduated as an architect from the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin (2018) where he studied amongst others with Jean-Philippe Vassal, Enrique Sobejano, and Alexandra Ranner. He has worked as an architect for Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and Compagnie KHZ. His own work has been shown in the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany and Switzerland.

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