Status: 16.01.2024, 17:16 PM
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The little dancers showed full physical commitment on Sunday afternoon on the large ASV stage. © Farewell
Varied costumes, great choreography, great performance: The students of the Tanz-Art dance school from Markt Indersdorf shone on Sunday in the fully occupied theatre hall of the Dachau ASV.
Dachau – It has been six years and many corona-related closures since Brigitte Seizer-Kotzian, owner of the Indersdorf dance school Tanz-Art, was able to stage a school performance with her students. All the greater was the anticipation and also the excitement of all players before the two events last Sunday at ASV. Around 500 spectators attended the two performances, which Seizer-Kotzian had titled with a quote from the British poet John Dryden: "Dance is the poetry of the foot."
Classical pointe dancing by the greats, accompanied by music by Frédéric Chopin. © Farewell
When the curtain opened, a little girl was standing on the big stage with a flower in her hand. She walked lightly through the stage, only to be danced around by nine other girls. They moved their shimmering cloaks gently like wings, conjuring up a poetic dream on stage.
While the audience was still thinking about this fairytale performance, the loud rhythmic shouts "bo" and "ha" of the next piece brought them back to the here and now. "The Queen Who Laughs", an adaptation of Mozart's "Aria of the Queen of the Night", was danced by the young eleven in a sophisticated choreography. They moved behind a fabric banner stretched across the stage, so that the audience could only see their upper or lower bodies in turn. The "queen" on stage could hardly contain her laughter at this sight, and the audience rewarded the children of the "early dance education" with much applause afterwards.
Now it was the turn of the "Classical Dance" groups. Based on the style of baroque dance, the ballerinas walked gracefully across the stage to four pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes in symmetrical rows, sometimes in pairs.
Afterwards, the oldest students performed seven dances on pointe shoes. The whole range of possibilities was exhausted: ballerinas with shimmering blue scarves in their hands floated across the dance floor to modern classical music by Phil Glass, followed by girls with flower wreaths in their hair, who skilfully made their turns and pliés to romantically sparkling piano music by Frédéric Chopin, to dancers who interpreted Demi Lovato's pop song "Confident" on pointe shoes. Huge applause followed.
The game continued quickly and dynamically after the break. "Blue is the sky and blue is the sea" it sounded through the hall as the youngest whirled across the stage in colorful skirts to the song "Favorite Color Colorful" and thus opened the program part "Jazz Dance". Lively and rhythmic, the jazz dance groups danced six current songs such as "One Kiss" or "Believer" in different formations. With David Kushner's ballad "Daylight", the students showed that they are also masters of pathetic, expressive dance.
At the end, the elders performed three pieces in the style of "Contemporary Dance". The choreography to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 was particularly original: the two dancers moved from head to toe wrapped in black cloth and gradually peeled themselves out of their narrow leotard tube during the dance, which gave their movements something abstract and ghostly.
In the grand finale, all 133 dancers and one small dancer finally came on stage and joined in Parov Stelar's song "Clap Your Hands". The audience didn't take long to be asked and clapped along enthusiastically. The program ended atmospherically with John Lennon's song "Imagine". The colored lights looked like many colorful fireflies, which all the actors on stage slowly waved to the music above their heads.
Never-ending applause rewarded the months of training, the elaborate costume selection, the technicians who had put everything in the perfect light and the many helpers behind the stage. The audience agreed: all the performances, from the first to the last dance step, were brilliant.
Christine Vollrath-Schwarz