Adam Linder

(Berlin)

Parade

Location: Frankfurt LAB (Gallus)

Choreography/Dance

Parade is a never-ending stream of movements and images, an exciting musical performance journey, an endless movement sequence of dancers, performers, and musicians. Sometimes the parade is explosive and overwhelming like fireworks, sometimes as fragile as tightrope walking. Parade combines the powers of rebellion with the reverence of a procession. Inspired by the paintings of Belgian artist James Ensor, soft sounds and energetic basses collide, make us laugh and marvel, startle us and make us sad. What does a funeral procession look like? What kind of energy drives a carnival parade? What about a protest demo? What if the first in line stops or three others change their mind and turn around? Just when the last in line runs exhausted off stage for the fiftieth time, the first in line is marching back in through the orchestra with a spring in his step.

After the enormous success of their first collaboration And So What! with the hr-Big Band, Tanzlabor_21 are once again – this time with both Frankfurt Radio institutions, the Big Band and the Symphony Orchestra – producing a project with teens and young adults.

Concept: Nevski Prospekt * Choreography: Ives Thuwis-De Leeuw, Philipp van der Heijden * Composition: Marcel Blatti * Orchestration: Gerd Hermann Ortler * Conductor: Ed Partyka * Choreographic Collaboration: Verena Billinger & Sebastian Schulz.

World Premiere