Pas de Deux der Selbstbewußtseine
an installational dance performance in the frame of the project HegelMachine
© Eva Baumann
Anyone who attempts to understand Hegel's philosophy and reads his writings, especially the two major works Phenomenology of the Spirit and Science of Logic, in the hope of understanding something of it, will inevitably fail. In the attempt to express his thoughts, Hegel himself failed linguistically. One could kindly say that he did not shrink from the danger of driving language as far away from vividness as possible. The installational dance performance Pas de Deux der Selbstbewußtseine (Pas de Deux of the Self-Consciousnesses) deals with how perception becomes consciousness, reflection on it becomes thinking and the reflection of the self in the other becomes self-consciousness. The work was conceived as a continuous 30-minute loop.
concept HegelMaschine/ Matthias Gronemeyer
choreography, dance/ Eva Baumann
set design, light/ Katrin Wittig
premiere
february 14th, 2020
Museum Hegelhaus Stuttgart
Resumption
august 28th + 29th, 2020
FITZ! Theater Stuttgart in the frame of STEP OUT #1
HegelMaschine/ Pas de Deux der Selbstbewußtseine is a commissioned work produced by Ausdrucksreich e.V. Stuttgart. Funded with support by the arts council of the city of Stuttgart and the foundation of LBBW. With kind support by Produktionszentrum Tanz und Performance e.V. Stuttgart and FTTS.