His dance is always philosophical: With Chimere, Alessandro Giaquinto—formerly with the Stuttgart Ballet and now active in the independent scene—explored themes of transformation and the multiplicity of beings within a single body. His site-specific performance in the catholic church of Mariä Himmelfahrt simultaneously celebrated a transformed space: the dense work nestled—both intellectually and emotionally—into the bright, modernized nave, seeking meaning intensely within this place of certainty—and finding it in a redemptive finale behind the massive, circular Omega that opens onto the altar area.
Two colleagues from the Stuttgart Ballet hurled themselves onto the stone floor and darted between rows of chairs—Henrik Erikson as that precious kind of dancer for whom every movement crystallizes into expression and interpretation; Mizuki Amemiya as a tormenting, comforting chimera—part will-o'-the-wisp, part butterfly, and part Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp. "I don’t want to die once but a thousand times," the androgynous figure repeatedly cried out; a flood of small plastic eggs symbolized countless new possibilities of life. Mathias Hartmann provided atmospheric, anxious music on the electric guitar.
