If I dance for you and you just don't feel it, who has failed? Can working on my and your feelings be alienating work? The performers try to feel intensely or trigger feelings. They explore personal and dance-practical experiences of sensitivity as a valuable resource that is always threatened by logics of exploitation. As a montage between dance, music and language, the piece brings together working and everyday realities that are characterized by a more or less successful management of emotions - and in which one's own sensitivity is in a service context. The ensemble SANFTE ARBEIT approaches the connection between emotion, dance and care work based on the exchange with people in caring activities.

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7 pm: Physical Introduction with Ada Sternberg

Move, feel, experience! During the Physical Introduction, you become active yourself - 30 to 45 minutes full of movement, relaxation and new perceptions. Feel dance in your own body and sensitize yourself for the upcoming piece. No previous knowledge necessary - just try it out!

If I dance for you and you just don't feel it, who has failed? Can working feelings - mine and yours - be alienating work? The performers try to feel intensely or trigger feelings. They explore personal and practical dance experiences of sensitivity as a valuable resource that is always under threat from the logic of utilization. As a montage between dance, music and language, the piece brings together work and everyday realities that are characterized by more or less successful emotional management - and in which one's own sensitivity is in a service context. The ensemble SANFTE ARBEIT approaches the connection between emotion, dance and care work, based on the exchange with people in caring activities

7 pm: Physical Introduction with Ada Sternberg

Move, feel, experience! During the physical introduction, you become active yourself - 30 to 45 minutes full of movement, relaxation and new perceptions. Feel dance in your own body and sensitize yourself to the upcoming piece. No previous knowledge necessary - just try it out!

Concept: Elsa Artmann + Samuel Duvoisin / Choreography + Dance: Diana Treder, Anne-Lene Nöldner, Elsa Artmann / Composition + Live Scoring: Annie Bloch / Outside Eye: Samuel Duvoisin, Valerie Wehrens, Lili M. Rampre / Costume: Noemi Baumblatt + Elsa Artmann / Graphics: Ondine Pannet / Photography: Arne Schmitt / Lighting: Luise Roßbach / Sound: Thomas Meckel / Video documentation and trailer: Cecilia Gläsker / press relations: neurohr & andrä / mentoring relaxed performance: Roisin Keßler (Un-Label) / production management: Samuel Duvoisin / production assistant: Caroline Simmler

Co-production: tanzhaus nrw
Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the Kunststiftung NRW
Supported by KunstSalon-Stiftung and the Tanzresidenz 2023 in the Quartier am Hafen

The mediation format Physical Introduction was developed as part of the MA CoDE program at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt/Main.