Bodies

Sasha Waltz's landmark
2000 performance exploring the human body

DANCE

Körper is an olfactive enactment of the same titled landmark choreography by Sasha Waltz.

A clinical investigation of the material body, Körper dissects the human body into body systems; from the nervous system down to bone and skeleton — finding specific movement idioms which depict these systems. Since its iconic debut in 2000, it has been performed over 200 times globally. Combining dance, body-focused imagery with intimate personal monologues, Körper asks the question: what is the body and how is it constructed? Together with 12 dancers, Waltz creates a series of spectacular living tableaux. The dancers are weighed and measured; bodies are stacked akin to human walls; the performers writhe and squirm, celebrating the body in all its stark corporeality. Drawing unexpected links between the body with architecture, science and history, Waltz’s masterful and incisive analysis of the body makes Körper an intellectual tour-de-force. With the world accelerating into the age of genetic manipulation, Körper’s clinical investigation of the body speaks with extraordinary relevance for our times.

"The inspiration comes from the Jewish Museum in Berlin. I was drawn to the display cases for the exhibits. So I started to look at the human body as an object in a museum… a sculpture, freezing time for short episodes, so that the bodies almost leave their materiality behind." - Sasha Waltz

summary: ANIMALIC, FLORAL, LEATHER, WOODY.
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