The Big Unknown With A Bit Of Nature And Everything Else On My List Of Things To Do

Working with graduating students at the AHK’s Mime department, Nicole Beutler has made a musical piece about the illusion of perfect order in our society, where madness lurks just beneath the surface.

A city square. Men and women wearing business suits in grey, black and white. Each of them displays just a touch of individuality: different shirts, different hair, different shades of grey for their identical trousers. From a distance, however, the differences are barely discernible. Everything seems in perfect order. But inside there are other forces at work.

Four performers break out of the frame and operate as a single organism as they test out their ideas on freedom, the invisibile and the unpredictable.

Nicole’s work is notable for its integration of divergent disciplines. Text and movement merge in her evocative choreographies, which always take a position in relation to the world. The Big Unknown with a Bit of Nature and Everything Else on My List of Things to Do forms part of Nicole’s research into the significance of the square in human life and thought. This research will culminate in the premiere of 6: THE SQUARE at Spring Festival 2016.