dance piece

fragile

Clébio Oliveira & Theater o.N.

Choreography: Clébio Oliveira game: Michaela Millar, Olga Ramirez Oferil composition / music: Matresanch stage: Markus Wagner costumes: Atelier Liyanova Migliorati production management: Imma Scarpato technique: Robert Lange Artistic director: Doreen Markert photos: Sebastian Runge and David Beecroft

Finally being tall and strong – how great we imagined adulthood as children! But what does it mean to be big and strong?

Identity and self-confidence are at the heart of Fragile. What does it mean to get older? What do we do as a child, but not as an adult? What connects the different generations?

At the beginning of every work of Clébio Oliveira are extensive research and expert surveys. For fragil he initially worked together with the entire ensemble of the Theater o.N.. The dancers and artists between the ages of 20 and 70 provided a basis for the exchange of experiences between the generations.

An important insight of the work on fragile is that fragility does not have to be thought of as an antithesis to stability. In many areas of life, we are only strong when we make ourselves vulnerable." - Choreographer Clébio Oliveira

fragil was commissioned by Theater o.N., produced by Offensive Tanz für junges Audience Berlin, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund and Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion (co-financing fund).