Kafka Fragments, inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka and the work of György Kurtàg, for a dancer/singer and an improvisational guitarist, Jean-Marc Montera. 

Clara Freschel takes up Franz Kafka's words in an intimate reinterpretation that questions our relationship with privacy and inner life. Echoing György Kurtág's work for voice and violin, Kafka Fragmente, she takes fragments from the writer's diary, giving them voice and body. The sound material draws as much from Eastern European music and Yiddish lullabies as from the distorted guitar riffs of musician Jean-Marc Montera, resonating in a contemporary body. The two artists offer the audience an experience that is at once musical, choreographic, and performative, exploring our personal and collective histories, questioning the nature of our human relationships, and nourishing our hopes for contemporary metamorphoses. Constructed as an assemblage of fragments, Kafka Fragmente deploys Kafkaesque themes that respond to, collide with, and transform each other in a random and improvised manner. The work thus opens up a space for introspection where Clara Freschel embarks on her own journey.