The Infinite Gesture - Premiere December 2024

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Picture: bashta

THE INFINITE GESTURE IS A DANCE TRIO EXPLORING DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF BEING IN TOUCH, FROM THE LITERAL SKIN-TO-SKIN ASPECTS TO A MORE SYMBOLIC, METAPHYSICAL, AND SOCIO-POLITICAL DIMENSION OF BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP. IN ADDITION, IT WANTS TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE INDISSOLUBLE BONDS BETWEEN HUMANS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT, AS WELL AS THE DIFFERENT IMPLICATIONS OF TOUCH IN RELATION TO DIVISIVE CONCEPTS SUCH AS CONSTRUCTS LIKE GENDER OR RACE. THE CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK AIMS TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO EXPERIENCE THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF TOUCH WITH REGARD TO CENTRAL RELATIONSHIPS SUCH AS POWER, DEPENDENCY, AND CARE. IT SETS OUT TO RETHINK THEM WITH THE HELP OF ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES. THE INFINITE GESTURE POSES THE QUESTION OF HOW CHOREOGRAPHIC MEANS CAN CREATE AWARENESS AND POSSIBILITIES OF COMMONALITY WITHOUT ERASING THE UNIQUE DIFFERENCES OF THE INTERACTING BODIES. THE WORK STRIVES TO ENCOURAGE A CONSIDERATE EXAMINATION OF ALL THE THINGS WE COME INTO CONTACT WITH, AND DERIVE A CONSCIOUS PRACTICE AND ETHICAL ORIENTATION FROM THERE.


Concept, choreography, text and performance:  Ixchel Mendoza Hernández | Performance and co-creation: Sebastian Elias Kurth,  Emeka Ene | Sound/Music: Hyewon Suk | Light: Annegret Schalke | Stage design: Dora Đurkesac | Costume: Malena Mondéer | Dramaturgy: Jenny Mahla  | Perceptual facilitator: Joséphine Evrard | Produktion: M.i.CA. | Coproduction: Radialsystem and Tanzfabrik Berlin :LOVE: | With the support of: Something Great - Zentrum für Internationales Zeitgenössische Darstellende Künste| Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds  |



PREMIERE: 19th December 2024 Radialsystem | SAAL
Further performances 20th, 21st, 22nd December 2024.