PREMIERE: 77Beethoven // Kompanie bo komplex // 16/9/21 // Künstlerforum Bonn

PREMIERE: 77Beethoven // Kompanie bo komplex // 16/9/21 // Künstlerforum Bonn


Together with the composer Marcus Schinkel and the visual and video artist Lieve Vanderschaeve, the dance company bo komplex is creating 77BEETHOVEN for the extended Beethoven Year 2021, a multimedia dance piece with live music around the content of the “Golden Record”, which was sent into space in 1977 on Voyager 1 with music by Beethoven and a greeting message to the inhabitants of alien planets. What happens when this is found by beings of a civilisation at the edge of the solar system?

In three “chapters” dealing with the scenario of the influence of the “Golden Record” on an unknown civilisation, the dance piece is based on the life of Ludwig van Beethoven in terms of content: order, first successes, the way to Vienna. Chaos, the emerging deafness, the turning away from people and ultimately the reorganisation, the acceptance of his situation and the creation of completely new works.