TIDE

Dance: Gianna Grünig, Bettina Neuhaus
Bass: Martina Berther

Tide: Middle English 'time, season; recurring interval, space of time'.
Also, 'the daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun'.

We’ll be performing in two unique spaces who resist gentrification. My respect to the Tripity collective! Tripity in Bern used to be a carpentry workshop and Rotes Haus in Luzern was a water-gas splitting electricity building. It is deeply meaningful to us, in our present times, where spaces like this disappear more and more, to bring our moving bodies and instruments in there. To keep these spaces alive, not only in the moment, but also in our memories, to celebrate their aliveness and their rough imperfections. Rotes Haus is open to artists only till the end of this June, it will be the third and probably last time we’ll perform in it, before it undergoes a renovation which will certainly take some of its spirit away. Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space, chapter House and Universe: we reach a point where we doubt that we ever lived where we lived (…) This house, as I see it, is sort of an airy structure that moves about on the breath of time. It really is open to the wind of another time. (…) The universe comes to inhabit the house. There is a state of impermanence within these places we perform TIDE in, nearly as impermanent as a real time performance in itself.

Thursday, May 22, 2025, 20:00, at Rotes Haus Luzern, Industriestrasse 6

Friday, May 23, 2025, 20:00, at Tripity, Weissensteinstrasse 4

Reservation:throughnaturedancemusic@gmail.com