Habitat / Warsaw (pandemic version)

Doris Uhlich / New Europe International Festival. Queer Gaze

The performance presented as a part of International Festival New Europe. Queer Gaze

Play duration: 1 hour 15 minutes Tickets: 50 PLN / 35 PLN

The performance presented as a part of International Festival New Europe. Queer Gaze

Play duration: 1 hour 15 minutes Tickets: 50 PLN / 35 PLN

On September 20 (Monday) at 8:00 p.m. we invite you for a talk with Doris Uhlich on the Nowy Teatr Facebook page. The talk will be moderated by Olga Drygas. 

Meeting in English.

What does the impossibility of physical intimacy mean? In the original version of Habitat, the naked bodies of people slap, vibrate and clash with each other to the sound of electronic and abstract techno tracks. Such a utopian place, where bodies can freely interact, touch each other's sweaty skin and breath together, seems far, far away in view of the current COVID-19 pandemic.

In Habitat / pandemic version a group of performers celebrate their unity in diversity, even while being socially distanced. Their bodies are in search of real, communal experiences and create opportunities to connect with the collective energy. Habitat / pandemic version remains to be an unashamed hymn on the naked body that takes us beyond cultural inscriptions and normative beauty ideals. This „pandemic version“ of Habitat not only adheres to the Covid-19 regulations but takes them as a starting point to find new ways of connecting with each other.

Doris Uhlich (Austria, 1977) has been developing her own projects since 2006. Many of her performances have at their centre the investigations of beauty ideals and the perception of standard body image. Known for her “philosophy of flesh”, she uses nudity free from ideology and provocation, and explores the limits of physical and spacial energy output. Music, particularly electronic techno music, plays a key role in her explorations.

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Concept, Choreography: Doris Uhlich

Performers: Hugo Le Brigand, Toni Brucker, Ute Frederich, Luise Kostopoulos, Klaus Lengefeld, Ann Muller, Jong Sung Myung, Thomas Richter, Vera Rosner-Nógel, Hannah Sampé, Saeed Asad Sangabi, Mim Schneider, Maria Tepper

Rehearsal direction: Hugo Le Brigand

DJ: Boris Kopeinig

Light design: Sergio Pessanha

Body Tanks: Proper Space (Juliette Collas, Zarah Brandl)

Manufacturing, Tailoring: Mick Hennig

Production: Margot Wehinger

International Distribution: Something Great

Coproduction Tanzquartier WienMünchner KammerspieleTanzfestival Rhein-Main (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm/ Frankfurt a. M. and Hessisches Staatsballett in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main) and insert Tanz und Performance GmbH

Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna and Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.

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