Residencies

An intimate dance invitation to connect. Inspired by Sufi dances, Shivā Amiri creates a encounter where performer and audience fall into a trance together. Through dance, trance & storytelling, the audience is invited to connect through dance and discover their other selves. A self that no longer sees discrimination, racism & flight as the problem of others, but recognizes its own participation in it.

Carlos Díaz: The Vallejo Readings

A new way to experience poetry. Dance creates a physical image of the verses of Peruvian poet César Vallejo through dialogue. The audience will be reached by the two lyrical languages at the same time and will be involved in the creative pro- cess through their own recitation and movement. Using the texts of Vallejo, who was a migrant himself, Díaz wants to create empathy for the experience of migrants from the global south.

Michelle DiMeo: Experiencing Kinesthetic Empathy: Dance and the Visually Impaired

“Experiencing Kinesthetic Empathy” addresses dance and people with visual impairments. The artistic investigation focused on developing ways to fully engage people with signifi- cant visual impairments in dance and somatic movement practices, and what can be learned about kinesthetic empathic sensations through this process.

Eslam Elnebishy: Matter of Perspective

The residency aimed to research ma- terial that defines the relationship between emotions and the body, experimenting with how feelings and emotions shape the body and the dif- ferent ways of expressing and experiencing them. Both as individuals and as a group, the artists explored approaching an emotional physical experience with its different representa- tions and manifestations.

Eslam Elnebishy collaborated in his residency with Areti Athanasopoulou, Eri Funahashi Geen, Bilal El Had, Anya Masson, Alexander Piasente, Johannes Schropp and Laura Stellacci.

Ida Kaufmann, Laura Mirjana Hrgota-Jannene, Joanna Gruberska: Pink Fluffy Cut and Destroy

The overwhelming feeling of apathy. What can help us emerge out of it? Can fighting be a way to reconnect with our fighting spirit, with our physical and mental strength? We want to embody different bodily experiences such as feelings of frustration, powerlessness and hope. A back and forth between theory, emotional and physical research. A dance to connect physically with the public, dancing as part of the fight, a way to gain hope and strength.

Mara Kirchberg: Swallowing a Barbed Wire - How do we dance with monsters?

“Swallowing a Barbed Wire” is an exploration of the materiality of anxiety emanating from the gut. It forms a counter-movement by addressing concrete physical stress responses. Shortness of breath, muscle tension, nausea, dizziness, ringing in the ears, numbness or tremors are explored and transformed through movement, voice, as well as noise. The practice of (de)monstrating fear brings forth a monstrous matter as an act of resist- ance and empowerment.

Clara Reiner,  René Alejandro Huarí Mateus, Jacob Bussmann und Frédéric De Carlo: local dancing

“local dancing“ is an invitation to fictional circle dances which travel through time, and have their very own reverberations. Their purpose is to serve the common pleasure. They have lately been danced, together with neighbors, at Implantieren festival in Wiesbaden, in Offenbach, and in Frankfurt am Main.