A dance dealing with the macabre geometry of war? Christoph Winkler created just that: Based on the absolutistic aspiration for a „beautiful war“, which followed the terrible slaughtering of the thirty years war, and battle descriptions from the Spanish war of succession, Winkler extracts elements for a choreography of cruelty. „Hinter den Linien“ („Behind The Lines“), performed by the outstanding ensemble of Tanztheater Wien, starts with point, line, area, angle and circle. Man and movement accumulate within a morbid sound architecture consisting of menuets, court tunes, hissing and rustle. Exhausting one on one battles, lines tumbling into one another, exploding groups. Then silence, the panting of exhaustion – and new attacks. Dance and language gallop side by side or breast each other. And within all this breath-taking action Winkler does indeed capture „the unstoppable internal movement prior to the act of aggression as such.“ (Franz Anton Cramer) „Hinter den Linien“ is a piece of hot iron, which choreographer and dancers forge to become the scythe of death.