Press Reviews       DELUSIONS Press Reviews of the World Premiere on December 3, 2004     back    What Delusions is disillusioned about is live presence itself. Naturally, the actresses and musicians are there, but un-naturally, their live actions could just as easily emanate from the phantoms that come from the witch’s kitchen of software. It is impossible to tell, for example, if the buzzing, whirring drum sounds may not in fact be electronically generated, or if many of the dance patterns are not in fact digitally cloned or already, as it were, cloned back to life. . . . And so it is that, although Delusions does not have a plot, it does have a story. It is the story of human bodies, transformed into video clips in the total software network, and ultimately dissolving into genome-like sequences of numbers and letters. In the process, the heritage of classical modernity from dadaism to concrete poetry returns at a highly advanced technical level. (...) Cannstatter Zeitung With gratifying directness and an appealing absence of pretension, this piece (concept by Sven Sören Beyer and Christiane Neudecker) confirms what everyone, at bottom, already knows: that in our world, permeated as it is by artificiality, not everything is as or what it seems. With virtuoso skill, two female dancers (Lydia Klement and Emily Fernandez) network a wide-ranging gestural vocabulary with projected images and really produced and electronically processed sounds. In the accompanying sounds (Markus Hauke), percussive acts merge with the products of electronic alteration to the point that one can no longer tell them apart. In the same way, the dancers are joined by artificial images, which distort, multiply, and reproduce in time delay what the dancers themselves are actually doing on stage. The stage in turn is filled with colors, forms, numbers, and letters. The rhythm of spoken sentences provides the physical movements with a regular pattern. And in a little less than an hour, the compression of our bewildering reality into a well-made multimedia production is already past. Stuttgarter Nachrichten
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