Bolero Bordello – Berlin Rhapsody is a 30-minute live performance unfolding within the environment of the exhibition currently on view at Capitain Petzel. Set among paintings, objects, and architectural gestures, the performance shifts the gallery into an active stage – blurring installation, choreography, and concert.
Through sound, movement, and voice, the event revisits Maurice Ravel’s Bolero and its long lineage of interpretations, starting with Bronislava Nijinska’s 1928 choreography and Maurice Béjart’s legendary version with Jorge Donn as La Mélodie, embracing their intensity, theatricality, and the tension between sincerity and camp.
The performance engages with Bolero’s dual nature – both as a high-modernist ballet and as a popular, transcultural rhythm that has traveled across decades and styles. Using the repetition and seduction of Bolero, it explores themes of collectivity, transformation, and the porous edge between historical context and contemporary experience.
With Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and PRICE. Music Arrangement by Merlin Modulaw
Saturday, 5 December, 7 pm
Capitain Petzel
Karl-Marx-Allee 45
10178 Berlin
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy works in painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance, and ceramics, often creating site-specific works that integrate all of these mediums. With a background in theatre and choreography, the artist employs historically rich techniques and methods of image-making to depict scenes influenced by the histories of queer identity and collaborative practices. His paintings highlight a fascination with the 18th-century style of carnal painting, known for its formal refinement and sophistication. Lutz-Kinoy’s performative practice explores the interplay of narratives that are created and constructed between individuals and social spaces.
PRICE is a multidisciplinary artist working with performance, music, video and installation. Equally, PRICE is also a construct being used to interrogate ideas around the body, language, the cyclical patterns of the Earth and the existential conundrums which humanity faces in the information age. Previously, his work has manifested at a variety of events and venues across Europe and the Americas, including ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Human Resources (Los Angeles), and Galpão Bela Maré (Rio de Janeiro).
Merlin Modulaw is a sonic architect who constructs immersive worlds and identities through the medium of sound. His artistic endeavors encompass a diverse array of approaches, spanning composition, production, performance, multimedia works and spatial audio.
