PHOTO: © Malin Harff

HOW TO BREATHE IN TIMES OF CRISIS?

In the organizer's words:

Teach us a song for recovery, dear Alga!
"For some of us, our bodies are the site of oppression. Our bodies are contested territory." - Patty Berne (Disability Activist)

The earth vibrates every 26 seconds. It is estimated that one person dies of ME/CFS every three days. Each person mines 18 kg of sand every day. In their new work, Malin Harff and Collaborators test survival in the endless storm - what happens when the crisis becomes the norm?

The mixed-ability team looks for multispecies solidarities in systems that are not designed for them and explores the interconnectedness of the climate crisis, Long Covid and ME/CFS, respiration and the extraction of the world's most sought-after resource: sand. The mixed-ability team links the depletion of the planet with the depletion of severely disabled bodies due to ME/CFS and Long Covid.

Over 400 million people worldwide suffer from this multi-systemic disease, which has been described as the medical crisis of our century. With Deep Time, soprano Alge and bass Sand, the band rehearses the pop song of the next million years. We turn the stage to the horizontal. What happens when resting becomes a necessity rather than an option?

Did you rest today already?

Language

  • German

Accessibility

Concept, Choreography & Performance: Malin Harff | Choreographic Assistance & Performance: Annu Koetter | Performance & Video: Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders | Sound design & performance: Tomas Ripoll | Voice: Germaine Sollberger | Costume & Stage: Miriam Sand Kutzleben | Lighting Design & Technical Assistance: Lukas Guigonis | Film: Simon Lenzen | Production, Dramaturgical Consulting & Access Assistance: Christina Ulrich | Mentoring: Manuela Mantini, Bojana Kunst | Outside Eye: Isidora Gazmuri, Nazanin Bahrami, Laura Salerno Specials

Thanks to: ME community. ME Choir: Catia Farranda, Sandy, Laurenz Sopha, Saem, Jana Petersen, Soheyla, Madeleine Wallner

Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW, NRW State Office for Independent Performing Arts, Cultural Department of the City of Giessen.

Supported as part of Next Steps, a program by Bureau Ritter to strengthen dance professionals in Hessen. Funded by the Crespo Foundation.

In co-production with the production house NAXOS in Frankfurt.

A project by flausen+. The flausen+stipendium at Sensemble Theater was funded by the Free State of Bavaria.

This content has been machine translated.

Location

Orangerie Theater Volksgartenstraße 25 50677 Köln

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