Tutuguri (2002)

"... a complex, polyscenic, simultaneous, fragmented theatre, where the scenes seem to not know each other and still connect, where bodies yell ..."
Frankfurter Allgemeine

"Tutuguri" is choreographed to Wolfgang Rihm's composition "Tutuguri - Poeme Danse" from 1980. Wolfgang Rihm, Germany's most important contemporary composer, based this composition on the poem "Tutuguri" written by Antonin Artaud.

Fabian Chyle's choreography was inspired by the musical structure of Rihm's composition and the main life themes of Antonin Artaud; especially Artaud's articulation of individual identity and its rejection by society. Artaud's rebellion against social norms was radical and society reacted in kind with long-term internments in psychiatric hospitals and repeated electro shock treatment.

Six percussionists and a choir are the acoustic environment for the seven performers. The ensemble creates outspoken characters, embodiments of different identities - a cross section of societal and emotional conditions. They are confined by social norms, like figures in square frames from which they cannot escape. Resistance develops; attempts to break through boundaries are expressed as revolt against the predispositions of norms - as a rebellion of the organic body against the linear structures of society.