Works
Islands
35 minutes2023
K77 Studio performance series Berlin
Planets, intervals
poses, walks
turn arounds
wandering backwards,
clicks, thuds
plops, hiss
poses, walks
turn arounds
wandering backwards,
clicks, thuds
plops, hiss
photography by Ioana Ferariu

They are a true couple.
On stage and that they are also in life is so energetically and beautifully obvious.
Watching their performance makes you realize what dance is, what music is. The whole thing is utterly enchanting. Delighted, enraptured, bedazzled, deeply touched, laughing, I am torn from my everyday carousel of thoughts and so cheerful that even the bizarre and threatening effect that riding the underground at night in a big city can have simply disappears. The impressions of this experience linger for days afterwards. Good art can do that. I wish I could put into words what I experienced: Two human beings, the male with a bass clarinet, standing close together, detaching themselves from their unity, moving away from each other. There is gyrating, whizzing, whirling, rattling and hissing.
They lose each other and yet are connected to each other in the greatest suspension and concentration. They come closer together, cast a spell over each other. Become one and then two again, but always related to each other with the utmost presence. There are slow passages, each of the dancer's fingers and toes is given tense attention. Gestural, mimic, linguistic and comedic elements emerge unexpectedly from the flow of dance movements.
The musician is actually two beings: he bears witness to the dance with the intense playing that builds up between him and the sounds he produces. He is so skillfully familiar with his instrument, elicits sounds from it in a very targeted way and yet listens in amazement at what he produces. Then again, the instrument becomes a paddle and concrete images are evoked from complete abstraction. And again and again, the pair come together in a calm, sung harmony. Not once during the 35 minutes does the suspense diminish.
Mariangela Tinelli (contemporary dance) and Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson (bass clarinet) can do art. Alone, they are nothing less than virtuosos in their profession and together they weave perfect harmony out of their contrasts, their skill, their presence and their musicality. They, themselves, are dance and music.
"Perhaps the true purpose of my life is that my body becomes my sensations and my thoughts become writing."
Quote by Annie Ernaux
Tanz Rezension von Karin Grießbauer, visuelle Künstlerin
Sie sind ein wahres Paar.
Auf der Bühne und dass sie es auch im Leben sind, ist so energetisch wunderschön offensichtlich.
Ihre Performance zu sehen, macht, dass Du erfasst, was Tanz ist, was Musik ist. Das Ganze ist ganz und gar bezaubernd. Entzückt, berückt, verzaubert, tief berührt, lachend, bin ich aus meinem Alltags-Gedankenkarussell gerissen und so heiter, dass sich sogar das Bizarre und bedrohlich Wirkende , dass das U Bahnfahren bei Nacht in einer großen Stadt haben kann, einfach verliert. Noch Tage später wirken die Eindrücke dieses Erlebnisses nach. Das kann gute Kunst. Ich wünschte, ich könnte in Worte fassen, was ich erlebt habe: Zwei menschliche Wesen, das männliche mit Bassklarinette, stehen dicht hintereinander, lösen sich aus ihrer Einheit, begeben sich in Entfernung zueinander. Es wird gekreiselt, gefaucht, gewirbelt, geklappert und gezischt.
Sie verlieren einander und sind doch in größter Spannung und Konzentration miteinander verbunden. Kommen sich näher, ziehen einander in Bann. Werden eins und wieder zwei, aber immer mit äußerster Präsenz aufeinander bezogen. Es gibt langsame Passagen, jedem Fingerglied und jeder Zeh der Tänzerin wird spannungsreiche Aufmerksamkeit zuteil. Unvermutet brechen aus dem tänzerischen Bewegungsfluss gestische, mimische, sprachliche, komödiantische Elemente hervor.
Der Musiker ist eigentlich zwei Wesen: er bezeugt den Tanz mit dem intensiven Spiel, das sich zwischen ihm und den von ihm erzeugten Tönen aufbaut. Er ist so gekonnt vertraut mit seinem Instrument, entlockt ihm ganz gezielt Klänge und lauscht doch erstaunt über das von ihm Hervorgebrachte. Dann wieder wird das Instrument zum Paddel und aus der völligen Abstraktion werden konkrete Bilder hervorgerufen. Und immer wieder findet das Paar zu einem ruhenden gesungenen Zwieklang zusammen. Nicht einmal innerhalb der 35 Minuten lässt die Spannung nach.
Mariangela Tinelli (zeitgenössischer Tanz) und Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson (Bassklarinette) können Kunst. Allein sind sie in ihrem Metier nicht weniger als virtuos und aus ihrer gemeinsamen Gestaltung weben sie aus ihrer Gegensätzlichkeit, ihrem Können, ihrer Präsenz und ihrer Musikalität die perfekte Harmonie. Sie selbst sind Tanz und Musik.
„Vielleicht besteht der wahre Zweck meines Lebens darin, dass mein Körper meine Empfindungen und meine Gedanken zur Schrift werden.“ Zitat von Annie Ernaux



No-Destination Flight
55 minutes dance & concert performance
2021
Acker Stadt Palast Berlin (DE)
The whole performance is a delicate balance of music and dance in subtle communications. The musicians become movers and the dancer develops a keen sense of listening. Eventually the dancer includes the concrete physical touch to influence and to sustain the sound composition and the choreography.
The dance and concert performance is in two parts. The first part is created and performed by Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson/bass clarinet and Mariangela Tinelli/dance and lasts for 20 minutes. The second part is created and performed by composer Elo Masing/violin and in collaboration with as well as performed by Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson and Mariangela Tinelli and takes 30 minutes.
No-Destination Flight is an intimate work that explores the idea of being touched by (vast) landscapes. Those landscapes transformed to sound, to physical states and sensual intuitions are open imaginative places and abstractions. The title suggests: It's all about the journey, not about getting there! It is taken from the Australian Flight Travel arranged during the pandemic, where a flight would take you all around the continent for 8 hours and drop you off at the starting point.
idea/concept in collaboration
Mariangela Tinelli
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
Elo Masing
Part one: composition Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
clarinet Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
dance Mariangela Tinelli
Part two: composition by Elo Masing
violin Elo Masing
clarinet Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
dance Mariangela Tinelli
Lights: Acker Stadt Palast Berlin
Photography: Kabinettobscurarose & Ronny Sakolowski







Pacifico Excercises: Encho
60 minutes performance2019
Acker Stadt Palast Berlin (DE)
This work is a collaboration with german composer Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler with the intent to explore the relationship between dance and music. The poetic idea of the pacific is represented by the participation of japanese composers.
With the premise to let the dance speak first, the ten minutes solo choreography is initially the “score” for the creation of six new compositions. In the performance each dance solo repetition is interpreted anew by each composer.
A graphic movement language, inspired by calligraphy and pictography unfolds in its relation to space and performability. Vivid poses act out as symbols to then transform and flow in yet angular movements. Each composition changes the relationship between dancer, soprano and clarinetist and contributes to the versatility and uniqueness of the relation to the new music pieces. The performance in its entirety shifts from hints of storytelling to abstract dance. More layers are added by drastic costume and light design changes journeying throughout.
Composers & Compositions played in this order:
Suiha Yoshida ‘Only the sea does not...’ for solo soprano
Ayana Tsujita ‘Wave and Pulse’ for solo clarinet & bass clarinet
Ferdinand Breil ‘till human voices wake us’ for soprano, bass clarinet & electronics
Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler ‘kusari’ for soprano & bass clarinet
Hideki Kozakura ‘MIZU’ for electronics
Stepha Schweiger ‘TAKE A SEAT’ for soprano & electronics
Choreography & Dance & Costume:
Mariangela Tinelli
Voice & Costume: Natalia Pschenitschnikova
Clarinets: Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
Live electronics: Ferdinand Breil
Text: Anna Hetzer
Light Design: Ferdinand Breil & Marcelo Schmittner












Breath
10 minutes performance2018
Massia, Massiaru (EE)
This performance is a movement study creating visibility and extention of the motion of breathing of the human body with attention to nuance and detail. It’s the first collaboration with the composer and musician Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, who plays the new music creation for bass clarinet with electronics.
The performance is a sensual and delicate journey and invites the audience to the contemplation of the natural act of breathing. With an esthetical approach of radical simplicity, silky movements unfold into manifold qualities and long flowing motions whereby the beginning and the end of a phrase are fully merged to a decentralized pattern. Breath just happens and it does in the vicinity of the heart. The choreography morphs relentlessly in an erie atmosphere through vanishing clarifications of shapes and states. The audience is a witness of a process that acts out almost as a phantasmagoric evolution of the phenomena of breathing itself.
The score starts as a wide open field and progresses very slowly, adding layers of musical materials and expressions culminating in the compactness of gestures.