TOUCH THE LINE

Borderline experiences and life stories
By Emel Aydoğdu

My body carries a story... Does your body also carry a story? What happens to the stories we tell each other? What happens to the stories we don't tell each other? How are you doing?

Boundaries structure our lives together - they organize and orient, separate and connect, protect and exclude. Borders have overhangs: edges where meanings tilt, where something remains, something does not fit, survives or continues to have an effect. The stories in this evening of theater address such borderline experiences. They show different perspectives and deal with different life stories, some fictional, some true. Together they form one big common story.

Emel Aydoğdu, born in Gaziantep (Turkey) in 1990, immigrated to the Ruhr region at a young age. She studied scenic research, art history, religious studies and modern and contemporary art. Study and educational visits have taken her to Paris and Tel Aviv. Her productions are characterized by a poetic-political examination of memory, belonging and social power structures. She combines documentary and performative forms with a sensitive, experimental visual language in which the personal and the political, the biographical and the collective, the body and the space are choreographically intertwined. Previous works have been created at Theater Oberhausen, Theater Bonn, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and Deutsches Theater Berlin, among others.

Production/concept/choreography/text: Emel Aydoğdu
Costume: Andrea Barba
Stage design: Aliki Anagnostakis
The actors are: Gaia Pellegrini, Burçin Keskin, Emmanuel Edoror
Dramaturgy: Guido Rademachers

Duration: 70 minutes
Language: German, Turkish, Kurdish