"Blindspot"

Leonard Cohen, Johann Sebastian Bach and Niklas Luhmann on stage. Dance pop, dance classic, dance system theory! The dancer/theater director Jan Ritsema did it again! After his hit “Weak dance strong questions” with Jonathan Burrows, he has put together this new duet with Canadian dancer Sandy Williams, in which they aim at a “blind spot.” Who actually perceives of their own body and mind while watching a performance? This is precisely the “blind spot” Ritsema and Williams are getting at in a piece where dance and language clash and burn their way into the hearts of the audience. Here, both intellect and emotion are stimulated, which is exactly the point of this unruly piece. As Luhmann writes, “Only communication can communicate!” And as Cohen sings, “And you want to travel with her/And you want to travel blind (...)/For she’s touched your perfect body with her mind.”