Götterdialoge (alles nochmal gründlich durchdenken)
Thomas Lehmen
Nonsense, nothingness, everything, art, love, work, thought—all find their forms in dance and linguistic dialogues with absent partners. In the theatre's space for reflection, between action and representation, those present remain in the transitional zones where it is particularly worthwhile to dance when familiar methods no longer work.
This new solo by Thomas Lehmen is preceded by a long engagement with the work of Hannah Arendt. Especially in her last work, ‘The Life of the Mind’ – Thinking, Wishing and her preliminary work for the planned third part, Judging – she makes it clear that all intellectual activities are preceded by an artistic process. She describes the moments before appearance and before disappearance as a poetic poiesis that can provide orientation in the uncertain transitional zones of intellectual as well as artistic activities.
Her ‘thinking without railings’ could be added to ‘dancing without a floor’, for which a dance-technical examination of gravity, efficiency and articulation enables the body the structural security to appear as an actor in the infinite possibilities of artistic transitions.
With or without the security of others present or absent, the struggle for freedom is a struggle for one's own thinking and one's own art.
