dance piece
Can Touch This
performing:group & Theater Strahl
Directed by & Dramaturgy: Leandro Kees, Daniel Mathéus, Julia Mota Carvalho Idea: performing:group & Theater Strahl Choreography: Leandro Kees & Ensemble Dramaturgical collaboration: Laura Cadio sound collages: Martin Rascher Stage and Light: Sylvain Faye Theatre pedagogy: Laura Cadio, Caroline Schlemann dancers: Rebekka E. Böhme, Jana Heilmann, Michael Kaddu, Michele Meloni, Balázs Posgay
Touch is provocation. Touch is beautiful. Touch is out of place. Touch is vital to survival. Cultures and traditions determine whether a touch is pleasant or embarrassing. Or are we the ones who determine it? We want to be seen, we want to be loved, we want to be wanted. But please don't touch it! Five performers within explore the dilemma of modern humans: We long for touch and still want to be protected from injury. The dancers inside allow closeness and lose control. They test their own and foreign boundaries, stumble across fat panties and embarrassments and gently catch the audience again in the end.
A cooperation between Theater Strahl and performing:group Köln. Theater Strahl is a partner of Offensive Tanz für Junges Audience Berlin. Funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund from funds of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW, NRW State Office for the Free Performing Arts.
