25 February 2006 (premiere)
Leipzig Opera
At the invitation of the Leipzig choreographer Heike Hennig, four former dancers of the Leipzig Opera returned to the stage in February 2006. In the dance piece “Time – dancing since 1927” Ursula Cain, Christa Franze (both born in 1927), Horst Dittmann (born 1943) and Siegfried Prölß (born 1934) told and danced their lives.
The breaks in the biographies, the memory of the body to which the movements are inscribed even after decades, age and transience – hope and strength were the themes that became tangible and visible in dance, music and language. It was not about perfection, but about remembering something in a very simple way.
The piece drew a picture of the here and now of people who have grown older and explored the question of their place in our society. In variations of modern and classical dance technique, improvisation, language and music, this production told about age, but also about hope and strength beyond nostalgia and beauty mania. The body of a human being – here of dancers – as the location of a process of social change. Ageing, gradual decay and standstill – or reactivation, vitality, endurance, enjoyment and serenity.