GO BEHIND 2002
Full-evening piece for six dancers, coproduced by the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zu-
rich. The production premiered 11 January 2002 within the «dance month» Tanzjanuar
2002.
2002/2003 guest performances in Basel, (Kaserne Basel within the festival Basler Tanztage), in Lucerne (Téâtre la Fourmi), Zurich (Festival Tanzfenster) and in Bern (Kulturzentrum Dampfzentrale, within the Festival Berner Tanztage).
Ballettanz, International dance magazine Neoclassical Techno
Go Behind in the Gessnerallee Zürich ... the timing of her choreography deftly interacts
with elements of music and film, like drawings in flesh and bone. … Gisela Rocha…begins
with musicality, conquers with drum’n’bass and techno an incredibly visionary new
terrain of dance, and sets her standard very, very high. Thus in the second half she
succeeds together with her small, fast and precise company to close a circle of techno
and neoclassical in ways never seen before. Literally. In completely contemporary
music, played as finely and quietly as chamber music, she forces bodies in electrifying
precision to the floor and composes them in a pattern of vibrating cells. The individuality
of her dancers dissolves, video projections melt with them on the floor, drops
race between the now merely biological entities, a dance not on the ground but lifted
masterfully by posterior, legs and backs – an overwhelming image that one would like
to watch much longer…
Arnd Wesemann