Tap, tap, tap
Holding hands, a group of faceless characters tap dance toward an accelerating crescendo – tap, tap, tap –, their precise steps recreating the movements of a traditional dance from their place of origin. Bosanski Vidici is a tap dance group comprising Bosnian immigrants from the Glamoč region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, currently settled in Düsseldorf. Danika Dakić brought them together to perform a dance titled Tauber Tanz, or Deaf Dance. In place of their traditional costumes, however, Dakić asked the Schauspielhaus theatre in Düsseldorf to lend them costumes from different periods of European history. Dakić uses dance as a way of establishing a difficult, yet enriching dialogue between different cultural identities. In this video-installation, she makes extensive use of the close-up as a way of focusing on detail, which she sees as more effective than sweeping, panoramic views. Born in Sarajevo, Dakić lives and works in Germany. Come and enjoy this dance at the MACBA Collection exhibition.
