With AscenDance Project, founder and artistic director Isabel von Rittberg gives birth to a new genre of dance that fuses rock climbing, music and choreography performed on a vertical wall. Without ropes or suspension, dancers use sheer strength to overcome gravity with grace, beauty and artistic prowess. A 12ft high and 24ft wide climbing wall creates a vertical stage on which performers move through three dimensions, using time and space as inconsistent and unpredictable variables. Von Rittberg’s aspiration is to create a sense of detachment and lightness, connection and hope. 



Past Performances