Music moves in waves. It travels through space and time. Light also travels in waves and needs a body to reflect. Light and body, moving together through space and time, continuously create a choreography of visual frequencies. In Matters of Rhythm, Rita Mazza explores this composition of visual sound, driven by the rhythms of sign language.Together with lighting artist Hanna Kritten Tangsoo, Mazza develops movement and light choreographies that focus on the relationship between the performer’s body and light as a source of movement. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s essay collection Rhythmanalysis and the work of visual artist Christine Sun Kim, Mazza and Kritten Tangsoo examine how the dichotomies between nature and capitalism, between circular and linear rhythms, shape our movements. They explore how light and movement merge, communicate, interact, and build a relationship – creating music for the eyes. Every sound becomes a movement. And movements – organized in various shapes, patterns, and tempos – become music.
Choreography + Performance:
Rita Mazza | Light Choreography:
Hanna Kritten Tangsoo |
Stage + Costume Design:
Yi-Ju Chou | Dramaturgy + Access Consultant:
Noa Winter | Movement Quality and choreographic Consulting:
Gabriel Galindez Cruz | Press + Communication: Gina Jeske | Audio Description, Tactile Tour:
Johanna Krins + Gina Jeske | Photography:
Mayra Wallraff | Film Recording + Editing:
Laura Gönczy | Production Managment:
Sophia Barthelmes | Audism Workshop, Deaf Culture Awareness:
Xenia Dürr | DGS/English/German Translation for Internal Team Work: Stella Papantonatos, Alma Arnoul, Florian Koehler, Nora Maletzki