performing:group
CAN TOUCH THIS [SOME OF US]
performing:group & Theater Strahl in cooperation with Offensive Tanz für junge Publikum presenting a mobile new edition of CAN TOUCH THIS
Three performers meet under the direction of performing:group for an improvisation. The result is a game based on common rules and the material from our piece CAN TOUCH THIS (2020). The special thing: the rehearsals for the new format take place exclusively via Zoom, so that some of the dancers meet each other for the first time at the performances!
The public space is the stage. The performers leave the loneliness in front of their screens at home and venture into public space to try and create a community between social distancing rules and the obligation to wear masks. Living together, how did that work again? Where some feel restricted, others remind us of our responsibility for one another.
How do individuals become a society?
Performing:group explores this question in the new edition of CAN TOUCH THIS – mobile, adaptable, in a mixture of flash mob and dance theater.
They also redesign the performance each time: beyond the fixed sound framework, the performers themselves control certain scenes using individual tracks. The result is an autonomous performance whose sequence, participants and location are adaptable and changeable.
An experiment that allows for great artistic freedom while posing concrete questions. The themes of the original production - touch and personal boundaries - are being re-examined with regard to distancing rules and the obligation to wear masks: Where are the lines of conflict between individuals who feel limited and a social contract that demands responsibility for one another?
Can Touch This [Some of Us] takes our production Can Touch This, which premiered in January at the Theater Strahl in Berlin, as its starting point.
Production Details
Alter: for everybody | Duration: 20-30 Minutes
Performance: Cecilia Castellari / Jana Heilmann / Michael Kaddu / Rebekka Böhme / Florian Bilbao
Direction: Daniel Mathéus | Dramaturgie: Julia Mota Carvalho | Choreography: Florian Bilbao
Idea: performing:group & Theater Strahl | Dramaturgische Mitarbeit Laura Cadio
Sound Collages: Martin Rascher | Original-Direction: Leandro Kees, Daniel Mathéus, Julia Mota Carvalho
Original-Choreography: Leandro Kees & Ensemble | Bühne & Licht: Sylvain Faye
Rehearsal Management: Julia Mota Carvalho | Theater Pedagogy: Laura Cadio, Caroline Schließmann
Production: Laura Cadio, Martin Rascher | Conceptional Collaboration: Karen Giese, Wolfgang Stüßel
a piece by performing:group produced by performing:group & Theater Strahl a cooperation as part of the “Dance Offensive for Young Audiences Berlin”. Funded by the “Reload. Scholarships for Free Groups from the Federal Cultural Foundation; TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media; iDAS NRW.
Im Original gefördert durch TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste.
Technical requirements:
The performance can be played anywhere without any technical effort, indoors or outdoors. In foyers, theater halls, public spaces, schoolyards or auditoriums.
A playing area of approx. 8x8m is ideal. However, smaller areas or other dimensions are easily conceivable. Please discuss with us.
We bring along and use a mobile Bluetooth speaker for music (max. 190 WATT).
For indoor performances we need simple basic lighting. Hall lamps, basic atmosphere on the stage or similar.
For outdoor performances, we bring barrier tape with us and pay attention to the distance between the dancers and the audience.
There are four or five of us traveling.
