The skin is also the largest organ of the body, she said, and its elasticity, its movement, was what intrigues her.
Waltz has frequently been cited for her use of space and the architecture of her pieces, which perhaps can be traced back to her architect father. The set for Korper centers around a 10m-plus black wall, which doubles as a blackboard, but whose main feature is a huge window with a Lucite pane that becomes a display case for the dancers' bodies. First one woman alone, then a flood of others, who wiggle, spill, overlap, moving about on an almost invisible latticework of thin wood strips. This wall later crashes to the floor to become a sloped platform.
Sasha Waltz and Guests is a fitting finale for the National Theater's Made in Germany festival, which has succeeded over the past four weeks in giving Taipei audiences a taste of the best that modern Germany has to offer.
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