In this performance Eszter Salamon revisits John Cage’s “Lecture on Nothing (1949)”, a piece she initially engaged with in 2010 through her solo performance “Dance for Nothing”, which paired Cage’s words with her movement. This time, Salamon experiments with the modulation of physical movements, focusing on the sonic aspect of this seminal lecture on nothingness, void, and composition. She adds depth by listening to one of her past performances in which she repeated the text after a slowed-down recording by the American cellist and composer Frances-Marie Uitti, creating an auditory exploration of transmission and transformation. Salamon’s fusion of body, voice, and score sets the framework for a meditation on the simultaneity of movement and sound, and on interpretation.

Biography

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Photo: Bea Borgers

Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, filmmaker, artist and performer. She lives and works in Berlin and Paris. Salamon uses choreography to combine and structure a variety of media, including images, sounds, music, texts, voices and bodily movements and actions. Since 2001, she has created solo performances, large-scale projects, performative installations, and films, showcasing her works at performing arts venues and museums worldwide. Her exhibition “Eszter Salamon 1949” was presented at Jeu de Paume (F) in 2014 as part of Satellite curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. Her large-scale performative installation “Study for the Valeska Gert Pavilion”, was presented at the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art 2022. Following her films “Reappearance” (2022) and “Sommerspiele” (2023), her film installation “Landscaping” premiered in September 2025 at the 21st Biennale de la Danse in Lyon and was presented at IRCAM in Paris as part of the Centre Pompidou's Constellation projects.

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Cast & Credits

Concept & DanceEszter Salamon
Music John Cage
Organisation & ProductionAlexandra Wellensiek/Botschaft: Gbr, Elodie Perrin/Studio E.S, Institute of Speculative Narration and Embodiment
With Special Thanks toGrazer Kunstverein, Tom Engels, Lilou Vidal

Funding

The event is part of the Tanzplattform Deutschland 2026.