I am not in a Room

Bees with sacred fuzz - a fly whose buzzing is the last thing the poet hears before her own death - the touching crickets performing their druidic ghostly hymn in late August - and, in all the poems, a multitude of dashes that open up spaces, suggest the unsaid and activate the reader's imagination: Entrances into the poetic work of Emily Dickinson.

The I am not in a Room team drew inspiration for dance, music, light and figures from Emily Dickinson's poems and biography: The artists from Taiwan, Austria and Germany weave an associative web of gestures, sounds, energies, songs, spaces and contexts from the ecstasies of natural sensations, the spinning of thoughts into matter and animals, theatricalizations of the smallest events of movement or the most significant moments of life and death, as well as geographical and historical references to Amherst / USA, where Dickinson lived.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) left behind an enormously extensive oeuvre with an almost inexhaustible variety of themes, almost exclusively published posthumously. The most important American poet hardly ever left her parental home for the rest of her life, and in the end hardly ever received guests; she established the most intensive relationships with the world, her fellow creatures and fellow human beings virtually from her room.

Influenced by her own experiences of isolation during the lockdowns of recent years, the study of Dickinson's work leads us to other themes that are still significant today: multicultural dimensions of her thought and poetry space, ecological aspects from a deeply felt relationship with nature, and questions about the individual and society that lead to the idea of becoming one with the world.

Little spoken language / Little dialogue

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