Katharina Senzenberger: Lovedance

In the organizer's words:

Lovedance deals with love from a queer perspective. As a counterpart to the love song, the team grouped around Katharina Senzenberger goes on a quest to search for the Lovedance that looks at love from a many layered perspective. While doing this, the performance reflects on possibilities of being together and sketches out new forms of community.

The choreography draws from a collective archive of romantic gestures such as the Viennese waltz or the pas de deux found in the entertainment industries, embodied as well as scrutinized by the performers. Between dependency and trust, leading and following, resistance and devotion, the duet is dedicated to a practice of relation-making that speculates upon the complexity and ambivalence that may take hold of the composition of our relationship. Without fear of overlapping kitsch, confrontation, drama, empathy, crudeness, care, expressiveness and maximum sincerity, passionate togetherness unfolds as a subtle intermediate state.

Katharina Senzenberger's works encompass stage productions, installation and digital works, and they have been shown at tanzhaus nrw, at Tanzfaktur Cologne, at Lehartheater Bad Ischl, at the Favoriten Festival, during tanz nrw, Horst Music & Arts Festival, as well as elsewhere. Senzenberger's very first professionally produced stage work Wetland (2022) received an invitation to Tanzplattform Deutschland. This was followed up in 2023 by the second stage production a dance routine, this time within collective senzenberger|rieck. Lovedance marks Senzeneberger's third coproduction with tanzhaus nrw.

Duration: 60 min.