und weil er sich dreht, kehrt der Wind zurück

A dance-installation by Anna Konjetzky
World premiere in January 2013
"und weil er sich dreht, kehrt der Wind zurück" ("and because it turns, the wind returns") is an abstract city tour, an associative-abstract journey through Jerusalem; on different levels of perception develops a pounding, trembling, splintering, vibrating. A parcours with crevices and niches that reveal images and bodies. I find Jerusalem particularly stimulating because of its extremely high intensity; a city full of tensions, frictions and contrasts-physical, historical, political and religious.
The foci of the abstract city parcours are the moments of friction; the points of interception that embody the contrasts; the search and creation of a fragile equilibrium that easily wobbles. In "und weil er sich dreht, kehrt der Wind zurück," I am particularly interested in capturing the principles of the city and to translate them into my language. I want to create with "und weil er sich dreht, kehrt der Wind zurück" a rhythmical parcours through 4 rooms in which visions flash, rooms open up, and in which things assail you only to disappear again. It's a work with frames that smoothly flow into each other, and then disappear. Frames using different media (dance, video, sound, light, installation) flow into each other without any rupture. The rhythm, the pulsation of the installation is transferred to the eye of the spectator, guides it and affects the rhythm of his walking and watching. The "free" movement meets the guided gaze.