Existential Questions

The Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern presented two world premieres by internationally renowned choreographers this spring: The Pulse of the Stone by Helge Letonja, the title part of a double bill, and Daniel Proietto's The Greatest Conspiracy. In Letonja's The Pulse of the Stone, the stage, designed by the Austrian choreographer himself, features a large, light-gray, glittering monolith bathed in a mystical, pale light, around which a group of people huddle; raindrops patter monotonously and quietly. For the choreography, composer Volker Klein from Bremen created music he recorded from stones: someone strikes a stone, or two stones rub against each other. These sounds are recorded with a microphone; each stone has a different tone. Different tonalities are thus created; the sounds are ...