fleshdance

01.-03.12.2023 Lichthof Theater, Hamburg, Germany
2023 Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany

„We have this fabulous intelligence, but, we also in some ways, we are the most fragile living
beings on this planet. So fragile that we – because of the capacities – we risk failing in ways that
will destroy every possibilities of any human future.“
– Jan Helge Solbakk, Bioethicist from Oslo

The documentary performance “Fleshdance” negotiates on the basis of 12 interviews with

with 21 protagonists from all over Europe,  the most rudimentary form of our being in today’s society – our flesh. Three performers navigate through interviews with the protagonists using live music, live video and language.

The Protagonists come from fields like the porn industry, food industry, church, bioethics, cannibalism and many more. Fascination meets revulsion, 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 mind will and the flesh desire. 

The co-presence of the cinematic means, the live performers and the audience a space is created that enables the simultaneity of the seemingly incompatible, perspectives collide and search for fractures and connections between concepts.