eVolution Dance Theater: COSMOS
Dance show with acrobatics, black light theater, light design
Choreography: Anthony Heinl
Light design: Adriano Pisi
eVolution Dance Theater, Rome
Norddeutsche Konzertdirektion
Melsine Grevelsmühl, Bremerhaven
Black stage design. Glowing costumes. Bodies dissolving in the dark and reassembling. A space journey built from light and movement – without a single word.
The evening
The stage is black. The dancers can hardly be seen – only what they illuminate is visible. Glowing outlines move through the space, planets pass by, a star wanders across the scene. In the next sequence, bodies dissolve, reassemble, and grow into beings that have no name. Then again: a silent image. A single dancer, a single light. Cosmos is not a narrative piece in the classical sense. Each scene carries its own logic and flows into the next, without a storyline dictating the order. Sometimes calm, sometimes rhythmic, sometimes soaring. The principle is black light theater combined with contemporary dance and acrobatics – a genre that cannot fully be defined as ballet, show, or circus, and that must be experienced live to understand what is meant.
The eVolution Dance Theater
Founded in 2008 in Rome by Anthony Heinl, an American dancer and choreographer. Since then, tours through Europe, North and South America, Asia. The ensemble brings together dancers, acrobats – most trained in multiple disciplines, as Heinl's choreography requires movement competence beyond a single school. The company's signature: Illusion as aesthetics. Not illusion in the magician's sense, but in the perceptual sense – the eye sees things that cannot exist and believes them nonetheless. Light design by Adriano Pisi – without whose score of spotlights, black light, and lasers, Cosmos would be inconceivable.
Why this evening
Because dance shows of this kind rarely come to the region – the eVolution tour makes several dozen stops in Europe this season, Singen is one of them. Because black light dance is a stage genre of its own: neither classical dance nor musical nor circus, but something that does not work on TV or on smartphones due to its nature. Because the show can do without language and is therefore playable for any audience, independent of German language skills. And because the evening is one of the few forms of stage presentation where young people, parents, and grandparents can all watch the same scene in awe – for different reasons, but at the same moment.
When purchasing a discounted ticket, we ask you to present the corresponding proof of eligibility at the entrance.
House opening: 6:30 PM
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