Basel

Sixteen individualists enter the stage, wearing sweatpants, skirts, jackets, and shirts. A few wear socks, some are barefoot. No one wears pointe shoes (costumes: Laura Hopkins). This heterogeneous attire is symptomatic of the dance evening by post-dramatic theater director Tim Etchells and visual artist Vlatka Horvat: The goal is not to force the dancers into a mold, especially not that of dance convention; it's about free movement — "Go where your heart takes you." Within certain limits. These limits are imposed: by the composition (also by Etchells), by the edges of the stage. There's a rhythm that structures the movements, there's a white dance floor that must not be left, curtains that frame the stage, lighting moods (Nigel Edwards) that structure the stage action. And then there are ...