EMBODYING BODIES

Inspired by the work of biologist Lynn Margulis on the concept of Symbiosis and her understanding of the human body as a Holobiont (an ecosystem where human cells cohabit with multiple other life forms), this performance explores what it means to experience ourselves, our bodies as not strictly human but as a community of interrelated and interdependent organisms, cohabiting and inter-reacting with one another, providing for each other, living together. This work offers a listening to micro places in our bodies and the diversity within them, taking us out of a binary and reductive regime, cultivating a different sense of ourselves and the environment we are part of. In this co-being exercise, various elements and living organisms are invited as guides, to learn from and to be formed by. Together with these other-than-human partners bodies are combined and recombined in order to reveal what takes place within us, how the merging of various entities has invented us and how we can learn what it means to create together.

Konzept und Choreografie: Fabrice Mazliah

Tanz, Gesang: Viktorija Ilioska, Eslam Elnebishy, Dalila Khatir, Patscharaporn Krüger-Distakul, Max Levy, I-Fang Lin, Emmanuel Obeya

Licht-Design, technische Leitung: Matthias Rieker

Produktionsleitung, Administration: Johanna Milz

Produktion: Work of Act. Ko-Produktion: Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Theater im Depot Dortmund. Gefördert vom Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst. Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien. Work of Act wird unterstützt durch die Zweijahresförderung des Kulturamts der Stadt Frankfurt.