Teaser
Dance performance

Synopsis
"BREATH"
Cie. Toula Limnaios

A film of Hanne Kaisik and Gösta Courkamp

with
Lea Helmstädter, Ulrich Huhn, Toula Limnaios, Lena Meierkord, Aneta Szydlak, Chris Zawadzky

For our film “ BREATH” the choreographer Toula Limnaios created a 25-minutes TV-version of her originally 1 ¼ hours lasting, award-winnig and cheered by the press piece “NOTHING. I will be there being not there”. Of course not alone the choreography was redesigned by cinematic points of view, but also the music of the first rank composer Ralf Ollertz, of whom we will have to report in another place, the light design of Klaus Dust, the videos of cyan and so on.... After three-weeks of rehearsals: In the Berlin theatre “Hebbel-am-Ufer” (formerly the “Theater am Halleschen Ufer”) inpetto film production shot the new version of the choreography in which the bundle of energy Toula Limnaios, in difference to the original version, danced herself and by this she gave the piece an additional, fantastic drive.

Inspired by Samuel Beckett's "Texts about nothing" a choreography of almost classical balance and eminent dance-like quality, neither literarily nor thick blooded arose. The “poet of inner conditions" Toula Limnaios sovereignly managed to orchestrate the change: to point out individual dance performances, to show the dynamic of the whole group on its best and then she lets figurative scenes melt in an abstract strictness or in touching hearty parts.

" BREATH" is the first dance film produced by inpetto film production. For us it was primarily not only just to shorten an existing choreography and then to shoot it as seen again and again, but to develop cinematic aesthetics in cooperation with choreography, music, light and video design that allows us to show and to make feel the inner connection of the choreography – on the TV screen.

The result is not only a documentary of what was “once upon a time” but a film with a dance-like language.

Choreography: Toula Limnaios
Music: Ralf R. Ollertz
Stage & outfits: Toula Limnaios
Light design: Klaus Dust
Videos: cyan

Camera: Bert Peschel, Hans Rombach, Chris Rowe, Günther Uttendorfer
Camera assistance: Stefanie Bierschenk

Sound: Jan Wichers
Sound mixing: Ralf R. Ollertz, Ralf Krause

Editing: Bernhard Schönherr
Online editing: Bobby Good

Production assistance: Katharina Ortmann
Producer: Gösta Courkamp

Director: Hanne Kaisik

Editor: Christopher Janssen

A coproduction of inpetto filmproduktion and ZDF/arte

25`30``- DigiBeta – 16:9 - stereo