A moving, musical research at the Zentrum Paul Klee dealing with the subject matter of gravity and weightlessness. A process which is part of the exposition series «Bewegte Bilder». The visitors become more than merely spectators, they participate simultaneously in Klee's written and depicted examination of the matter and the embodied and musical experience of the same - realised by two dancers and a musician, all three members of the company inFlux. Various associations are being inspired and thus new, further questions evoked. The realm of experience of a Black - WhiteBox - stage experience will be dissolved. The spectators are finding themselves in a three-dimensional exhibition situation - they are becoming part of what they see and thereby experience it.

Throughout his life, Paul Klee showed great interest in music and contemporary dance. Among the issues he engaged with through the medium of dance was gravity: the fact that human beings, like all entities and all matter, are ‘earthbound’. This, Klee noted to his regret, curtailed the forms of movement available to man; he championed saltation and skipping as a means to triumph over gravity’s power.
With a view to Klee’s musings, the dance company inFlux will research this leitmotiv of his work in situ: the oscillation between gravity and weightlessness that engenders movement.
Here, the (stage) floor, often taken for granted by dancers, is turned into a place of attraction and play and becomes a symbol of gravity itself. Time and again, the dancing bodies are catapulted aloft and achieve momentary weightlessness at the apex of their trajectory. Intermittently, they remain ‘rooted’ to the ground with one or both feet, only the head striving upwards – ‘standing in spite of all the opportunities to fall’, as Klee characterized humanity’s fate in the bondage of gravity.
Anything that is given momentum will invariably oscillate between gravity and weightlessness. Gravity’s force is thus rendered concrete and tangible, both visually and physically.

The music acts as acounterwight. Melody and rhythm co-determine this choreographic research project. The music, played live (bass German flute), evokes the same themes and emotions as the dancers. It sinks down into the depths and soars to great heights. Moreover, it serves as a kind of counterweight to the dance. The German flute shares its timbre and lends the dance performance an additional dimension.