Whether Dostoyevsky (“les possédés”) or Puccini (“reading tosca”), the classics do not so much provide models as basic inspiration for Toula Limnaios’ productions. Rather than adapting stories, she instead filters emotional essences from her sources. Her search for the breadths and depths of human feeling is expressed in poetic imagery; surrounded by an aestheticised space of sound, light and colour, the dancers face themselves and others with intensity or gentleness, affection or serenity.
Toula Limnaios always works in cooperation with her partner, musician and composer Ralf R. Ollertz, whose compositions lend a sense of acoustic vastness to the imagery of her choreographic world, placing strong accents. Together they are a highly creative artistic duo, producing 27 pieces in just 13 years. And they have another achievement to be proud of: in 2003, Toula Limnaios and Ralf R. Ollertz opened their own rehearsal and performance space in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN is a unique success story: with nearly every performance sold out, the company has been able to build up its own, not necessarily typical dance audience, which follows the artists loyally and enthusiastically from one production to the next.
Toula Limnaios always works in cooperation with her partner, musician and composer Ralf R. Ollertz, whose compositions lend a sense of acoustic vastness to the imagery of her choreographic world, placing strong accents. Together they are a highly creative artistic duo, producing 27 pieces in just 13 years. And they have another achievement to be proud of: in 2003, Toula Limnaios and Ralf R. Ollertz opened their own rehearsal and performance space in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN is a unique success story: with nearly every performance sold out, the company has been able to build up its own, not necessarily typical dance audience, which follows the artists loyally and enthusiastically from one production to the next.
Elisabeth Nehring
