November, 2022 Uferstudios 14, Berlin
“Crash Landing on Olympus Mons takes the act of landing as a point of departure.
Two dancers begin a journey backwards to rediscover their grounds. They open a fictional space by deconstructing gravity, holding hands, touching, singing and humming; orienting their dance towards rethinking the body in relation to each other and their surroundings. They travel back to the breath, the place before the dance starts. In an attempt to become earth, bodies are witnessed as moving landscapes. Going backwards to learn how to move forward, they come in contact with the skin of the Earth: Rocks.
Landing becomes not only a play with gravity but grows into a process of becoming with: a mode of relating, a state of arrival, generating alternative descriptions and seeking new politics. The performative space becomes an uncharted territory that provides possibilities of recomposing lives together and creating new sorts of kin in hard times.” Dominique Tegho
Choreography & Costumes
Dominique Tegho
Dance
Matilde Bassetti
Iokasti Kyriaki Zografou Mantzakidou
Sound
Alex Rapp
Stage design
Anna Klaine
Light design
Sanja Gergoric
Dramaturgical Support
Pauline Payen
Mentoring
Kat Valastur
Production support
Milena Luise Stein
Text: Critical Zones: The science and politics of Landing on Earth” (Latour, Weibel).
*With the support of HZT, Hochschule für Schauspiel Kunst Ernst Busch, and the Deutcher Bühnenverein*