Sinnestaumel
DANCE PERFORMANCE | LABORGRAS
A space where baroque lines and contemporary bodies enter into a finely tuned dialogue
Premiere: November 11th | 2021 | Elisabethkirche, Berlin
Re-Staging: October 23th—26th | 2025 | Dock11, BerlinProduction: laborgras with support DOCK ART
Funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
Media Partnership: tip Berlin
About the performance
Delicate, flowing, almost chamber music-like, sinnestaumel unfolds into a sensually charged work that understands the body as a resonance space for music, light, and movement. Three sonatas from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Sonatas for Violin and
Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019 lay the groundwork and form the driving kinetic force behind an extraordinary encounter: Midori Seiler [violin] and Christian Rieger [harpsichord], specialists in historical performance practice, create together with the dancers of laborgras a space where baroque lines and contemporary bodies enter into a finely tuned dialogue. In endless variations, the five performers open associative spaces,
oscillating between hope, longing, melancholy, and joie de vivre, weaving poetry, drama, humour, and grotesque into the poetic power of a humanity that repeatedly emerges through dance and music.
Video Documentation
Concept and Artistic Direction: laborgras, in artistic collaboration with Barbara Weigel. The choreography, created in 2021 in collaboration with dancers Abraham Iglesias Rodriguez and Tian Gao. In 2025 performed by Abraham Iglesias Rodriguez, Djamila Polo and Renate Graziadei Musical interpretation: Midori Seiler [violin] and Christian Rieger [harpsichord] Artistic team: Arthur Stäldi [dramaturgy], Claudia Janitschek [costumes], Raquel Rosildete [lighting design] Production: Micaela Trigo and Urszula Heuwinkel Communications: Yven Augustin/Augustin PR [press], Marcelo Vilela da Silva [social media] Photography: Phil Dera Design: Mia Sedding Music: Johann Sebastian Bach – Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (BWV 1014–1019), including Sonatas BWV 1014, 1017 + 1019.