Name: The Soul on a Thread
Start: 2025-05-07T20:00:00
Location: Rococo Theater

Friedemann Vogel

SWR Symphonieorchester

A dancer moves his body, his muscles. Why do we find that beautiful? How do grace, elegance and sensuality arise in movement, and how consciously and emotionally does a dancer have to dance so that his performance can be touching? In 1810, Heinrich von Kleist wrote a famous essay on marionette theatre, and the star soloist of the Stuttgart Ballet, together with the artist and choreographer Thomas Lempertz, used this text as the basis for the solo performance The Soul on a String . Kleist puts forward the thesis that true grace is only possible with a puppet, because there is no mind controlling the movements. Friedemann Vogel counters this with movements with consciousness and inner emotion, but is accompanied and questioned by a dancer avatar. With The Soul on a String, a unique work of art made up of dance, music and video is coming to Schwetzingen, which has only been seen in two places so far. The audience there was deeply moved.