Please hold my hand

On Pina Bausch`s recommendation Eun Me Ahn from Korea has been engaged as guest choreographer. Excentric, extrovert and provocative as she is, she is an exceptional personality not only in her home country. She does not fit at all into the cliché of a Korean dancer or choreographer. She unites culture of the Far East with western, contemporary elements and transforms both into a very personal body language and an impressing imagery. For Eun Me Ahn the stage is a place of imagination, a place where people`s dreams have become visible - a place where everything is permitted. For her, colours are an expression of energy and of the „joie de vivre”. In her choreographies she often works with extreme ways of representation.

„Please hold my hand” flashes with pure zest of life and lust. The dancers are dressed in piercing colours and infuriating costumes. Eroticism and enticement lay in the air. A profound smile playfully adorns the faces of the dancers...

With winks and irony „Please hold my hand” recites ordinary situations which are staged, elaborately in regard to aesthetics and style. The plot, ludicrous and exaggerated, seems to lay far off reality. However, it never looses touch to the familiar. Behind the colourful and entertaining stage world is a deeper level of understanding which is moving.

The composition of the Korean Young Gyu Jang with whom Eun Me Ahn intensively works together since ten years rounds off the choreography. His impressive sound images create tension within the action on stage and support the piece in a whole. His subtle mix of sounds drawn from the ordinary day to day life, from Western and Far Eastern music underlines the statements of the choreographer as an ideal sound carpet.

However, „Please hold my hand” is an art work in which space, lighting, costume, colours, music and dance fuse to a powerful, energetic and above all, to an entertaining unity.