Unkaputtbar
Cie Drift ( CH)
The artistic directors, Béatrice Jaccard and Peter Schelling have worked together since 1987. They were joined in 1992 by Massimo Bertinelli. In 1998 they formed ‘Compagnie Drift’. The Zurich based Dance Company has become one of the most important and successful in Switzerland. They are equally successful on the international scene, having presented their work in 27 countries and in over 600 performances, and the ‘Unkaputtbar’ has just been awarded as the best contemporary dance production in Switzerland.
‘Unkaputtbar’ is a dance production with four men who pursue crooked ways
while travelling together on the wrong track. Imperturbably they always fall on their feet - more or less - and they never give up. They keep up a sturdy and friendly camaraderie amongst themselves that here and there degenerates into unfriendly scuffles. They construct pyramids as structures of ideas and coax their friends
into allowing themselves to be used as building blocks. They love building too high and become masters in crashing down. During their falls they always hope to be able to learn to fly. At the same time they are relieved to realize that the law of gravity still operates. The world is in the eyes of these men so full of deception
that they have to use all of their wits to survive in it. They are never quite sure whether their perceptions are distorted by trickery. Therefore they take shelter in compiling and inventing complex rules and regulations, thus concealing reality within a jungle-like matrix that presses it into a bizarre framework. They pronounce absurd ways in which to solve problems as rational. They tap each other on the shoulder, to prove that the shoulder still exists. In this way the men keep to their course and decide to see their world as beautiful because if the world were ugly, their lives would be stale. In their happiest dreams they are mountaineers or polar explorers;
useless heroes exploring the darkest caves, deepest oceans and desert snows.
But whether or not they would have become so, the world would still be unchanged.
In spite of their extreme effort and the resulting frozen fingers the last messages they would leave to the world outside and to posterity would arouse no particular interest. Perhaps when on the mountain peaks they would look for new continents.
Instead, failing in that radically futile search, they would find their own unchanging inner selves. They would enjoy life and settle contentedly in their newly tested homemade reality.
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idea and set design: Peter Schelling
direction and dramaturgy: Béatrice Jaccard
choreography and performance : Massimo Bertinelli, Thomas Maucher, Philippe Olza, Ivan Wolfe
music: Massimo Bertinelli i François Gendre
light design: François Gendre
costumes: Daphné Ineichen
trajanje duration: cca 60 min
