Kunst der Fuge

In his composition "Kunst der Fuge" Johann Sebastian Bach varied his musical theme 18 times - Amanda Miller has now taken up these variations. Together with the Cologne baroque music ensemble Harmonie Universelle, pretty ugly tanz Cologne have adapted "The Art of the Fugue" which in 2003, Time Out magazine in New York chose as the best guest performance of the year.

"Basically I am concerned with space within music. In the 'The Art of the Fugue' the potential for what can be danced is in my opinion to be found in the contrapuntal tension between the various voices of the fugue. I wanted to find chinks or cavities in the structures, that is not dance "on" the music, but rather to set something dancerish against it, so as to open the structure spatially." (Amanda Miller)

"Miller's work borders on brilliance. Leaps and liftings expand the range of movements known until now, the (…) serene elements of the music are eagerly seized on and sparklingly transferred." (Rhein-Zeitung)