![]() Bringing her back to his apartment, murder seems to be far off the agenda as the would-be lovers drink, smoke and dance in the living room. He meets Abby (Sinead Matthews), a gobby party girl who the audience will recognize at the soon-to-be corpse in Carl’s bathroom. ![]() First by trying to start his own gardening business and second, by trying to find love online. Recently out of prison and a teetotaler, he’s trying to move on with his life. Carl is a loner, his only real confident is the neighbor he runs errands for when he’s shopping. Turning back the clock, Rupert Jones, who also wrote the screenplay, takes us back to before all this happened and then going on to showing us the fallout. There’s lipstick on a glass, cigarette ash in a saucer, a broken chair on the landing and a bruised and bloody corpse in his bathroom. Waking up in his rundown apartment in London, Carl appears hungover, unable to fully understand what he’s been up to. Toby Jones plays Carl, who we first meet the morning after the night before. You can also add to this short list: Kaleidoscope, the feature length directorial debut from his own brother, Rupert Jones. For evidence, look to Capote or Berberian Sound Studio. He is an actor who rarely gets top billing, so when the opportunity arises, you would be foolhardy to miss out on him leading the pack. Indeed, he is by far one of the few highlights of the miserable thriller, The Snowman. Toby Jones is an actor who manages to heighten any material he’s in, from recent work in Atomic Blonde to lighter affair such as Dad’s Army. A fully accomplished, gripping, exuberant 90 minutes dance event, a danced image of the Now or in contemporary words, a danced screen-shot of our world, poetically unsettling.A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother And without exception in knowledge and authentic application of their skills. Structurally and thematically embedded in and limited by what the I and the We constitute, the nine international dancers of AKS are in search of space and role: determined, staggering, lost, aggressive. This space as well as the concept, the choreography, the costumes, the soundtrack and the light design are Schlehwein's work. "Rich in omnipresent images, critical reflections, open for associations and a multitude of perspectives and interpretations (coming from its own, artistic side as well as from the side of the audience) colourful, challenging, contradictory, scary and crazy as dreaming of as well as the actual "Here to Now” A dance kaleidoscope full of surprises, full of fascination for the grotesque, in which you can lose yourself, just to be stirred again by an unexpected twist, a development, a lurking danger created and installed within a stage space consisting of two rooms, interconnected by doors. ![]() And then the "Here": frenzied joy of life, bold simplicity ("Make me great again" in Carinthian terms) and generally loud, engaging folk and classical music, riots, group situations and stylistic quotes that intervene in the turmoil of bodies with great precision, fortunately keeping clear of almost all current dance trends. Of course, the TV screen is not missing it shows news, ski jumpers, golf players – pure "Now". Resulting from the double-spaced stage situation at Schlehwein's premises at Stift Millstatt, the piece consists of double and even triple images, this time on the main and back stages of theater Halle 11. The flood of images that is turned loose on the viewers by the highly vibrant, creative ensemble (Unita Gay Galiluyo, Andrea Maria Handler, Georgia Capodistrian, Maria Mavridou, Simona Piroddi, Arnulfo Pardo Ravagli, Aurelius Rys, Roman Zotter) during one hour is, in terms of content and choreography, chaos with a system: testimony of a society in disintegration and upheaval, to live and enjoy liberty, equality, fraternity, against violence, uncertainty and solitude. ![]() Yes - contemporary dance can deeply engage the audience, if it's done well! Schlehwein's lusciously breathless dance piece dealing with contemporary issues that had its premiere in 2016 in Millstatt was enthusiastically received in its guest performance in Klagenfurt last Friday and Saturday. ![]()
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