A love story between a right skate and a left skate. The German artist Moritz Ostruschnjak has managed to turn this concept into a captivating tale of a blossoming love that, before it can be fulfilled, shatters in a separation filled with pain and torment. In this piece, two solos merge, clash, chase each other, become a duet, and then unravel. Miyuki Shimitsu and Guido Badalamenti move in a hybrid universe, accompanied live by the piano notes of Reinier van Houdt. The skates become extensions of the body, arms stretch like legs, Alvin Curran transforms into Yoko Ono, and pianos expand to fill entire rooms with silence. The magnetic play between bodies and objects brings impossible creatures to life, ephemeral worlds, and stories in continuous mutation. The real images that emerge break and recombine into new trajectories. Romanticism clashes with violence, poetry with brutality, lyricism with chaos.
Cry Why is a short-circuit of meaning and perception, an electric mix between the lyricism of Holiday on Ice and the subversive energy of cyberpunk.
CRY WHY
MORITZ OSTRUSCHNJAK (DE)
12 June 2025 21:00 Theme - Transformation / Deconstruction
Lavanderia a Vapore Corso Pastrengo, 51 Collegno (TO)servizio navetta gratuita da Metro Fermi alla Lavanderia A/RMORITZ OSTRUSCHNJAK. Originally from the street art scene, Moritz Ostruschnjak developed his interest in contemporary dance through breakdancing. He studied from 2001 to 2003 at the Iwanson International in Munich and completed his training with Maurice Béjart in Lausanne. He then worked as a dancer both in Germany and abroad. Since 2013, he has been a freelance choreographer in Munich, with a portfolio of over ten of his own productions, the latest of which is CRY WHY, a duet for two dancers, two pianos, roller skates, and a pianist, presented in 2024. His works have been showcased in numerous European festivals and selected three times for Tanzplattform Deutschland. In addition to his personal creations, Ostruschnjak also creates commissioned works, such as TRAILER PARK for the Tanzmainz ensemble in 2023. He was selected as one of the Aerowaves Twenty21 Artists, received the Förderpreis Tanz from the city of Munich, and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and Tanztendenz München e.V.
By Moritz Ostruschnjak
Choreographic collaborator Daniela Bendini
Performer Miyuki Shimizu & Guido Badalamenti
Piano Reinier van Houdt
Light design Thomas Zamolo
Costume Daniela Bendini
Dramaturgy Armin Kerber
Production Susanne Ogan
PR Simone Lutz
Management Alexandra Schmidt
Touring Pascal Jung
This project is made possible by Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance (BLZT) with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts
Artist selected for Aerowaves 2022
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