New Report on Giving Birth, Wen Hui / Living Dance Studio

In the organizer's words:

Wen Hui, the pioneer of contemporary dance in China, created the piece "Report on Giving Birth" in 1999, which was based on interviews with factory workers, doctors, journalists, midwives and her own mother about their experiences of pregnancy and childbirth. 25 years after the premiere, in "New Report on Giving Birth" we experience four dancers who venture new perspectives on female bodies. They encounter each other as mothers, non-mothers and women with migration histories from China, Thailand, Iran, Italy and Germany. In powerful, playful, poetic and intimate choreographies, they translate the associated realities and attributions. Together with the dancers, Wen Hui explores how structural violence and control become entrenched in bodies.