Wen Hui / Living Dance Studio ›New Report on Giving Birth‹

In the organizer's words:

"How can we share a space of trust, empathy and strength through movement and dance?" Wen Hui

Choreographer Wen Hui is considered a pioneer of Chinese contemporary dance theater and an important voice in the fight for women's rights. She celebrated her international breakthrough with 'Report on Giving Birth', a work from 1999 for which she interviewed factory workers, doctors, journalists, midwives and her own mother about their experiences of pregnancy and birth. More than 20 years after the premiere, she and three dancers venture new perspectives on bodies read as female.

In powerful, playful, poetic and intimate choreographies, they encounter each other as mothers, non-mothers and women with migration histories from China, Thailand, Iran, Italy and Germany. 'New Report on Giving Birth' translates the realities and attributions associated with these roles and explores how structural violence and control become entrenched in bodies. Here, dance is both a means of communication and a moving archive: Seen in a larger context, the different stories and experiences point a way to empathy and resistance.