WTF | Where There’s Form

Barton and nine trusted dancers created WTF | Where There’s Form in collaboration with Hauschka over a two-month period in Hamburg, Germany. This transatlantic collaboration took place against the backdrop of increasing dystopian rhetoric worldwide, in which language serves to escalate, discredit and sabotage a real debate. Barton and Hauschka, however, reveal passionate, smart bodies and sounds, which demonstrate humanity’s capacity for coexistence.

“Her most important source of inspiration is music! But for her most recent work, choreographer Aszure Barton went without it: "Where There's Form" was created within the past eight weeks at Kampnagel - mostly in silence. While Barton was working on her piece in Hamburg with 9 dancers, Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann, born in 1966) composed his music independently and all by himself. The choreographer and her crew heard the composition for the very first time shortly before the premiere! Thus the artist consciously catapulted herself out of her comfort zone and took a big risk. The prize: a real dialogue develops on stage, the dancers have to be able to express themselves in the music. The composer at the piano and the cellist are forced to make music live and observe the dancers - so every evening everything is new, different and exciting. The great 80-minute dance-music theatre ended this year's International Summer Festival at Kampnagel yesterday - and was loudly celebrated by the enthusiastic audience.” By Dagmar Ellen Fischer, Hamburger Morgenpost

Photos by Anja Beutler, courtesy of Kampnagel