With works by Kazunori Kumagai, Sandra Kluge, Daniel Borak, and Manuel Leuenberger

Three international tap dance artists present excerpts from their solo concerts, and they could not be more contrasting. Japan’s award-winning tap dance artist Kazunori Kumagai presents a solo that features soundscapes and beats custom made for this triple bill, carrying the audience away into an improvised musical world that is situated between hip and jazz. Sandra Kluge’s solo set joins subtle tap grooves with multidimensional synthesiser realms and spherical vocalisations. At times meditative, at other times groovy, the loop set is a multifaceted journey through the possibilities of tap percussion. This stems from Sandra Kluge’s longstanding experimental quest to have tap function as a fully-fledged accompanying instrument, offering the foundation for emotionally appealing music.

Daniel Borak’s and Manuel Leuenberger’s Wooden Impact presents a tour-de-force through a multitude of different musical epochs, from J.S. Bach to Manuel Leuenberger’s self-penned compositions to spontaneous improvisation. Daniel Borak’s tap sound and the tones from the Marimba played by Manuel Leuenberger coalesce in such a way that they temporarily appear as one single instrument before creating attentive distance in the next moment, conversing from different perspectives.

Duration: ca. 120 min.