pars media // past // Absolute Zero Dance performance, 26 min. Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre DOP: Pascal Hoffman Film Editor: Gaby Kull-Neujahr Choreography: Saburo Teshigawara Dancer: Kei Miyata, Saburo Teshigawara Music: Georges I. Gurdjieff / Thomas De Hartmann, "Seekers of the Truth" In collaboration with BR and ARTE // photos // press // order Absolute Zero is one of the best known choreographies of Saburo Teshigawara. It explores the situation of complete stillness, when things cannot move, because it is minus 273 degrees. Yet in dance and life there cannot be complete stillness. "Absolute Zero" is the filming of the heartpiece of the two hour long stage version. With consequent purism the piece was adapted for the camera. The stage design is geometric: horizontal, vertical - never diagonal. Teshigawara is standing still for a considerable time. His arm lifts almost unnoticable. He seems boneless. To the minimalistic pianomusic of the Caucasian Mystic Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Teshigawara and his partner Kei Miyata develop their inner speed. Everything is flowing.