documentary performance
that will destroy every possibilities of any human future.
– Jan Helge Solbakk, Bioethicists from Oslo
The documentary performance deals with the meaning of the body – the flesh – in today’s society. Three performers navigate through live music, live video and pan-European interviews with protagonists from the porn industry, the church, the food industry, and many more. Fascination meets disgust, theory meets practice, body meets consciousness: Individuals on data carriers, concepts of the unthinkable, perception as the basis of the mind, the vulnerability of the human body, the non-locatability of human thought in a binary logic, the question of the possibility of
disembodied existence, the will of the spirit and the desire of the flesh. With the co-presence of the materials, the live performance and the audience, a space is created which enables the simultaneity of the seemingly incommensurable, allows perspectives to collide and searches for ruptures as well as Interfaces between concepts.
concept / artistic direction
performance
video
musical direction
costume
dramaturgy
postproduction
technical direction
light
production management
sophie krause, robin plenio
terrence johnson
sophie krause
robin plenio
marie akoury
lena fritschle
david-simon groß, sophie krause
eugen geisler
lennart beese
laura wiesinger
2023
2024
ballhaus ost berlin
lichthoftheater hamburg
fleshdance is a production by boikott in coproduction with ballhaus ost berlin supported by fonds daku, rusch stiftung and nationales performance netz