Events – 2010

 

Constanze leads a new dance at Festival of Light

Canstaze leads new dance performanceA dance performance devised and performed by the Bethesda Arts Centre

Constanze Karl-Rückert, dancer at the Staatsballett Berlin, came to work with the Arts Centre Performing Arts Group in October 2009.

Within three weeks, ten of the Arts Centre’s visual Artists, who had never danced professionally before, where ready to perform a 20 min piece, named “Open End”. Through movement they expressed conflicts of today’s South Africa, its major social problems and the country’s unclear future. The audience was thrilled, and the evening ended with home made ginger beer and Karaokee.

The dancers – surprised and delighted by their success – were eager to dance again – which they did at the New Year’s Eve Festival of Lights.

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Constanze says...

Constanze Karl-Ruckert

“Working with the Artists of the Bethesda Arts Centre was a deeply inspiring and life-changing experience for me. Their enthusiasm and initiative made this work possible.

I do not know how they can come to rehearsal out of these extremely difficult living conditions, and joyfully absorb everything I try to teach them. I believe they have taught me something much more profound to life than I was able to give them.”

Constanze Karl-Rückert, dancer at the Staatsballett Berlin