Skin Deep

The skin, our first all-encompassing contact with the world. No life without touch.
Sensory richness that connects us with the world and strengthens our sense of self.

And the discomfort in a touchless world is constantly growing. Isolation, frustration and loss of the world – who doesn’t feel the need for an embrace?

In his choreography “A Thousand Steps to Silence”, Tú Hoàng combines the theme of skin with the elementary aspiration of Buddhism/Taoism to distance oneself from all emotional turmoil and to withdraw from “up-close” contact with society and all its potential for conflict. Can this be a way to emerge from an overflow of digitally fueled messages and emotions in which the world seems to be drowning?
Or, Helge Letonja asks in return, should we embrace one another more often in order not to lose our humanity?

Tú Hoàng takes the dancers of Of Curious Nature into the process of meditatively turning away from the agitation of everyday social life. Choreographically he shows both poles: strict movement meditation and the turbulences of being.

Helge Letonja and his ensemble move the sense of skin in its often unconscious facets. Of Curious Nature senses the richness of skin perception, the stimuli of a touch, the skin’s longing for exchange and at the same time its turning away from too much that cannot be grasped, including the feeling of loss that arises.

_{A Thousand Steps to Silence:

Choreography: Tú Hoàng | Music: Clara Cozzolino, Jake Parry | Costume Design: Astah Camara

Skin Deep:}_{Choreography: Helge Letonja | Music: Miguel Marin | Costume Design: Csenge Vass}

_{Choreographic Assistance, Training Direction: Mariko Koh | Dance: Lys Cabral, Wan-Yun Chen, Jed Nagales, Tiago Reis, Daniel Sabia, Pere Sansaloni Servera, Carolina Verra | Costume Production: Uğur Bingül, Elisabeth Huber, Jenny Podehl | Lighting Design: Carlos Heydt | Technical Direction: Nathaniel Johnson | Project conception and dramaturgical support: Anke Euler | Production management: Moritz Petri | Photo: Lidia Melnikova / LiMe Art, Marianne Menke | Video: Médoune Seck}

_{A production by TanzRAUM Nord gUG with steptext dance project, supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Senator for Culture Bremen and the Waldemar Koch Foundation Bremen.}

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Marianne Menke

Tú Hoàng / Helge Letonja with the Ensemble Of Curious Nature

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