During the ImPulsTanz festival there are so many performances that my eyes are about to fall out. It's fantastic. Here are some snapshots of the performances of the first week.
Kerstin Kussmaul & Jan Burkhardt, Vexations : Wir nennen es Arbeit

Photo: Laurent Ziegler

If you like solving puzzles, this installation is right up your alley and was definitely an interesting method of involving the audience (as the performance). For every task you did, the price of your ticket was reduced. Great. Well, since my ticket was free this didn't exactly apply to me, so I got away with not doing anything but observing everyone else that chose to move around the space. I did give myself the task of listening, so I did. Very carefully. Ah, music - I did not even realise that I was listening to the same piece over and over again. This is the beauty of Erik Satie's Vexations. But I didn't stick it out for all 840 repetitions.

Savion Glover Productions (the opening of the ImpulsTanz festival)

Photo: Savion Glover Productions

The Tap Master: Savion Glover. Or Happy Feet, if that suits you better. It suits me better, but I couldn't actually see his feet because of the sea of people in front of me. His locks are cool though - they were bouncing around his head and face, while he was tapping along to the jazz music, played live by his band. Happy Locks, perhaps?

Rosas/Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, The song

Photo: Michel Francois

Dance (performed by incredible dancers with incredible physiques), sound (resourceful, live sound-effects) and light (like silent fireworks when a silver cloth descended from the ceiling). Together. I enjoyed this. Some bits were drawn out too long. Others right up my street, although the spectacular effects sometimes seemed to be dominating the aesthetic of the piece - almost too much for my taste. But only almost too much, because the piece was unpredictable... So I guess specularity won in the end.

Random Scream & Davis Freeman, Investment

I will never buy a lottery ticket, bet money, play poker or any game of luck in my life again. Not that I ever really did, but I now know enough to regret that I even thought about it. The responsibility is simply to great - if you win that is. If you don't, it's just stupid that you tried in the first place. Investment deals with the issue of money and responsibility by investigating the hypothetical event of sudden wealth. They even handed out lottery tickets. This piece is a good response to the current social climate, still in the aftermath of the economic crisis. We panic, we become greedy, we forget that money is not just fun to have. If you don't have money, you don't have responsibility.

Yeah, that didn't make sense. I take it back; money is fun to have and if you're poor you still have responsibility. But thanks to this piece, I do not want a lot of money. Just a little bit, please.