Lippenbitter
Pentalogy SHIFT OF SENSES Part IV
A dance piece for 5 by Ilona Pászthy

The production was supported by Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Städtebau und Wohnen, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW, der SK Stiftung Kultur Köln and Kulturamt Stadt Köln. In cooperation with Fabrik Heeder Krefeld and kölner tanz agentur

Four qualities of tasting: sweet, sour, salty, bitter
Four dancers, four people meet... Lippenbitter shows different aspects of the delicate sensuality of tasting and the loss of senses, between pleasure and compensation, between daily life and absurdity.

Sour and sweet
... the centre and turning point of the choreography is the stage object created by the Cologne artist MiegL. The multifunctional object creates different settings and allows the dancers to use it as a turnstile, a sofa, as a wall or just as a box in which they try to hide their aberration and dependence on strong desires, their loss of control.
Besides touching and meditative images there are also funny scenes: the dancers appear without heads and the actor explains the audience the correct preparation of baby-, woman- or happiness-tea. You can buy and consume everything even when the wide range of offers become an absurd and even destructive excess. Ilona Pászhty deals critically with the loss of taste of our society without taking herself too seriously.

Kölner Stadt Anzeiger, 19.10.2004 Isabelle Steinböck