I LIKE TO MOVE IT

They are not dancing to music and they are not playing music to dance – I LIKE TO MOVE IT is a choreographic concert for three dancers and eight loudspeakers. Gradually at first, a musical-choreographic process creates constant shifts and imperceptible fractures in the interdependence of dance and music.

The staging operates precisely with the vibrations of the music and the dark sounds of the bass, which are physically palpable, not just for the dancers but also for the audience. During the course of the evening you will inevitably be drawn into a closed circuit of reciprocal influence, initiated by Zufit Simon with her usual brilliance and smart comedy. She simultaneously quotes and breaks the rules of the rock and roll concert.

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(...) Dressed in skin-tight, shiny black trousers, these rock graces perform a dance act somewhere between Nouveau Cirque and a Wild West movie. With carton-sized loudspeakers under their feet, they swing their microphones like lassos: circling above their heads, in varied pendulum movements, in figures-of-eight around their bodies, creating a multicoloured, buzzing, humming concert. The way their slender bodies take up the swinging rhythm of their microphones, the way the three of them fall backwards to the ground, push their foot blocks together to produce sounds and rise up again like puppets: all this is so ingeniously thought out, so precisely executed and, secretly, also a statement about today’s highly perfected commercial music industry, that Simon’s “I like to move it” deserves to be lauded as a DWE highlight.

Malve Gradinger, August 2014, 
accesstodance.de/de/article/2014/die-tanzwerkstatt-europa-muenchen-geht-zu-ende