THE LONG RUN - SEBASTIAN WEBER DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

In the early 1990s, Sebastian Weber experienced the New York tap dance scene as a place that had left racism behind. The black masters of jazz tap practiced tap dance as a community of solidarity into which they welcomed young Europeans with open arms. "If you have a pair of tap shoes on, you are in!" said Gregory Hines and his brother Maurice seconded: "Dancers don't see color" - and meant it in a positive way. 30 years later, a renewed understanding of racism and privilege is shaking up the certainty of that time. Was the community back then a mistake? How can this error be corrected? Are the utopias of that time still conceivable today?
THE LONG RUN is a piece about cultural appropriation and identity, about white responsibility and racism. A dance about transience and memory, a questioning of the body as a repository of encounters and stories.

Ages 12 and up.

www.sebastianweber.de

https://www.lofft.de/programm/veranstaltung/the-long-run