Almut Dance

„ALMUT is an exploration of my Jewish grandmother, whom I hardly knew. Yet I am connected to her through the place where she spent half her life and where, as a ‘Mischling 1. Grades’, she survived the Nazi regime. A city where her experiences intersect with my present day. Drawing on her autobiographical sketch ‘Versuch einer Erinnerung und Rückschau’, an artistic dialogue emerges between the past and the present. How can what she experienced be made visible, audible and tangible through my body? How can my body become the vessel for her memory? The project sees itself as a tentative exploration of her life and personality. A remembrance that begins on a personal level but speaks to society: as a shared gesture of passing on, of questioning and of responsibility” – Paul Behren