2012 is set as the big unknown concerning the future of the world. Going back to the duality Apollonian-Dionysian between Orpheus and Eurydice, there will interactively be formed a creative connected Topos, of which Eurydice stands as a paradigm. Dance, words, video  and ModulArt are interlinked so that there will be created an open semiotic structure and like that a non-linear reflection in motion, to approach the ‘Other’, the ‘ Un-  known’, the ‘Vivid’, without powerful concepts (Derrida) . Herby will be thematised the relation of the Dionysian and the Apollonian, the relation of nature and culture, of cyclic and linear time, of mythos and reality, of interlinked and causal thinking, of body and mind. The question comes up whether rational thinking might be able to capture the whole variety of living reality. Hence, won’t we restrict life and liveliness by our rational view onto the vivid, so that we lose the notion of life as Orpheus lost Eurydice?  The performance as an interlaced reflection by different media and layers deconstructs the overvaluation of rational understanding. In consequence, a space for a humble ego will be opened. The interlinked movement between different layers and structures can be seen as a semiotic process of forming structures. That is why the performance is thinking in motion, body-thinking.

Idea, direction, choreography, video, dance, lecture: Aurelia Baumgartner   

ModulArt : Leda Luss Luyken

Performers, dancer: Raphaela Baumgartner, Vincenzo Lapertosa, Jairo Amaya

Video cut, music samples, composition: Markus Wagner

Technical direction: Manuel Diaz Göppert, Ralf Ringel

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Aurelia Baumgartner is a ‘philosophizing dancer and dancing philosopher’. She toured worldwide as a freestyle ski dancer with the National Team of Germany and studied Philosophy, Theater and Literature at the LMU University of Munich, obtaining her Master of Arts in Philosophy in 1993. She trained as a dancer and dance teacher at ‘Iwanson International’ and worked at WDR television station "Philosophy Today" in Köln. Since 2000 she has trained in Asian Martial Arts (Black Belt III.Pakua), Taiji (Yang Stile and Pakua) and Jang Shen Practices. In 2001 she founded the School of Contemporary Dance in Berg (Munich), in 2004 she founded the Aureliana Contemporary Dance Project and started to produce full-length philosophical dance and video performances. From 2007-09 she performed as a soloist at the group" Sol y Sombra"; In 2010/11 she danced in the production "Co-Pirates" of Richard Siegal at the opening of the Dance Festival 2010 in Munich. Inspired by her work as a dancer, choreographer and philosopher she develops ‘Körper-denken’, ‘body-thinking’, a semiotic theory of the body in which relations created out of movement are world structuring and world creating