We are tomorrow Performance Tanz

The contradictions and tragedies of our collective histories do not allow us to represent the “other” with certainty. There is nothing we could be more certain about than our self, our mortality and our ego ‒ an ego that is able to draw clear demarcation lines between good and bad, until it gets wound up deep inside of us, not knowing distinction.

The present gives us the empty pages onto which we may inscribe our fate with our own handwriting. A conscious and self-determined approach to life can only succeed if we find ways to reconcile our inner contradictions; if we can develop a holistic and complex perspective on social experience.

The title STILL/life is paradox and unexpected, and its French translation, „nature mort,” which emphasises death, seems to mean the exact opposite. STILL/life is movement; a story of pride and falling; an attempt of reconciliation and acceptance of our extremes; an invitation to shed tears ‒ with the gleam of hope that coming generations can learn justice from poverty, love from suffering, and peace from misery.

The performance begins with the attempt to simultaneously depict two sides of the coin; to reveal the antagonisms and contradictions we carry inside and to reflect the schizophrenia of our world. STILL/life is a creative process, propelled by pure energy.

A production of YK Projects in Co-production with the Festival d’Avignon, Fondation Beaumarchais – SACD, Collective Essonne Danse, WIP Parc de la Vollette and Maison de la Danse, Lyon. In the context of We are Tomorrow – Visions and Retrospection on Occasion of the 1884 Berlin Conference financed with funds from the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin and the Federal Foreign Office.