Calendar

The new production by FORWARD DANCE COMPANY observes bodies and relationships at a moment of growing totalitarian forces. We experience how the cracks in and around us are widening. We rewind and fast-forward in order to understand: How long have the cracks been there? Are they so deep that they have already become a habitat in themselves? Has the house we live in perhaps been a ruin since it was built?

The dancers' bodies fluctuate between maintenance and collapse.

They search for hope in the refuted notions of cohesion. The question arises: do we flee into the private sphere, into our closest relationships, while society is breaking apart - or is it precisely our tenderness with one another that gives us the strength to hold the pieces together? We prepare ourselves for the loss of our present and pack time capsules for the future after the crash. What do we want to keep? What do we have to let go of?
Two important concepts accompany our search: Kintsugi, the Japanese art form in which broken porcelain is repaired with lacquer and gold and the broken pieces are visibly embellished in the process. And Tikkun Olam from Jewish philosophy - the repair of the world as an ethical principle for a world that has always been broken.

Under the choreographic direction of Elsa Artmann - a master student at the HGB and a dancer with the FORWARD DANCE COMPANY since 2021 - and in conceptual and dramaturgical collaboration with Dr Gustavo Fijalkow, the company is working in language, sound and movement to make its piece more accessible for blind and visually impaired audiences. It is an invitation to experiment: in addition to what is shown visually, an independent auditory level is to be created that is perceptible in its own right and merges with the visual level in places.

Further dates & tickets...