Ahilan Ratnamohan: A Football Ballet

• Theatre

In FOOTBALL ECHOES, choreographer and former professional footballer Ahilan Ratnamohan continues his exploration of the intersections between football and dance. A group of Hamburg footballers take the stage to explore the intersections between football and dance. They try to choreograph the movements that are natural on the field without the ball on stage. They stay true to the game, with its quick steps, countermovements and the impulses of the ball that determine the movements, and reconstruct the processes and rituals in search of something new. If there were no competition, what would football be? If football were a dance, what would it be? Ahilan Ratnamohan was a guest at the 2023 Summer Festival at Kampnagel with the production JOSSE JNR, as well as with a workshop with Hamburg amateurs, which culminated in the Klapping initiation KLAPPSQUAD, the starting signal for his new project FOOTBALL ECHOES.