Club Loneliness by Stella & Artists x TOTAL BRUTAL

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to support the performance of Club Loneliness by Stella & Artists x TOTAL BRUTAL at the 33rd Macao Arts Festival by inviting TOTAL BRUTAL to the Festival.

Love and loneliness are an everlasting theme in artists’ creations that are presented in a variety of forms. What interpretation of these themes can we expect from the collaboration between the Berlin-based choreographer Nir de Volff and Chinese dancers?

This production will be presented by six dancers from Germany and China, including two Macao dancers. After the last collaboration, this time Nir de Volff is bringing a group of superb dancers to Macao. During the one-hour programme the audience will be able to comprehend the connotations of the work through body movements while perceiving the physical changes of the performers, who have all developed a set of techniques based on training with the Breathing Bodies Movement (BBM) method.

What is BBM? It is a set of body movement techniques developed by Nir de Volff that encourages open mouthed thoracic breathing instead of abdominal breathing, thus guiding dancers to explore their own body as they attempt to activate body parts that are generally less active. Detail-oriented Nir de Volff also loves to ask dancers questions to stimulate their thinking and develop their ideas into dance routines. Both solo and group dances are featured in this production to show the feelings of different people about touch, impact and love.