Lovedance

“Lovedance” explores the theme of love from a queer perspective. As a counterpart to the lovesong, the team around Katharina Senzenberger embarks on a search for a lovedance that approaches love as an uplifting, soaring experience. The performance reflects on possibilities of being together and imagines new forms of connection and relationality.

The choreography draws from a collective archive of affective dance forms and romantic gestures, from Viennese waltz to pas de deux from the entertainment industry, which are embodied and questioned by the performers.

Oscillating between dependence and trust, leading and following, resistance and surrender, this duet engages in a practice of relation-making. It speculates on how layered and ambivalent our relationships can become. In a gently spectacular way, “Lovedance” settles onto cloud nine – unafraid to let expressive kitsch, confrontation, tenderness, rawness, drama, care, lightness, and utter sincerity overlap. Passionate togetherness unfolds as a subtle in-between state.

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Concept, Choreography, Dance, Production: Katharina Senzenberger

Co-Creation & Dance: Tasha Hess-Neustadt

Co-Creation, Research: Benze C. Werner

Music: iona w.

Dramaturgy & Performance: Valerie Wehrens

Costume: Judit Förster

Lighting: Leo Kuraite

Rigging: Anders Jensen

A production by Katharina Senzenberger in co-production with tanzhaus nrw. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste and the State Capital Düsseldorf. With the kind support of the residency program of HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts, Dresden and the residency program at Quartier am Hafen Köln.

Photos: Julia Franken