dancer: Florian Schlessmann

three hour performance
5 – 8 p.m.

3 October 2020
9 October 2020
17 October 2020

Asta Gröting
Der eilige Geist
Performance
2020
180 min

Measurement has never been a constant. Tending to vary from place to place, many of the earliest forms of measurement were inextricably bound to the body. In ancient times, different body parts were used to measure distance: the length of a foot, the width of a thumb, the length of an outstretched hand, or the length of one’s belt. How, then, might the passing of time be measured through the body, through lived experience? Every phenomenon that occurs has its proper time, its own rhythm. “The secret of time,” the theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli writes, lies in the “slippage that we feel on our pulse, viscerally, in the enigma of memory, in anxiety about the future.” Asta Gröting’s performance Der eilige Geist asks not only how we sense, but also perform, the passing of time with and through the body. A lone performer dances variations of time: our hurry, our attempts to slow down, or the fear of time passing us by. In times of rapid acceleration, where might we find the moments when time stands still?

Dancer: Florian Schlessmann
Text: Jesi Khadivi

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