A SchauSpielRaum production together with Shared Leadership in Dance (SLiD)
Premiere on 30/10/2025 / Large Stage Wiesendamm
Perhaps the time has come, and we have already entered a time of which people will later say: Do you remember the time when bodies became taboo and touch was lost? It was replaced by likes. Touch has begun to be disturbing: Too close, too suggestive, too curious, too freedom-loving, too sensual—simply too dangerous! Yet there has always been a great longing to be touched by something or someone, to experience security, to feel connected—with the world, with the person I'm with, with the raindrop that touches my fingertip.
With bodies touching and never at a loss for words, three choreographers defy disembodiment. They not only overturn the law of human distance, they also demand a rethinking of touch and ask: What is the relationship between touching and being touched? What feelings and fears are associated with it? What arises in the moment of touch – a world, my world, my body, myself? Jenny Beyer, Antje Pfundtner, and URSina Tossi invite young people to imagine alternative presents and explore forms of touch as encounter and communication. Young dancers between 14 and 21 stop at no body and stretch their feelers far and wide. Whether human, air, or stone, whether sensual or symbolic, they touch it, hold it, let it go, and approach it again. Every now and then, as if it were the most normal thing in the world, they say: Hello, I want to be touched. It doesn't have to be for long, but I'd love to touch it now.
"Fühler" is a production with integrated artistic audio description for people with and without visual impairments.
In co-production with Shared Leadership in Dance, supported by the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media.
Shared Leadership in Dance (SLiD) is a commitment to collaboration, sharing knowledge, resources and work in dance.
Starring: Martha Bergerhoff, Julien Cogné, Amanda Dänhardt, Jellina Dettmer, Merle Gramm, Ray Ellinger, Levi Fabian, Stina Husmann, Erik Köpke, Sayeh Khalaj, Frida Helene Lampe, Lucie Lang, Selma Lojenburg, Dayana Lusina, Aleksandra Moll, Janne Morgenweck, Anna Leticia Nagy de Valdoleiros, Leni Nasner, Elza Pröpper, Leila Roze, Julia Schmude, Toni Schüßler, Emily Stahlkopf, Johann Nepomuk Steffel, Martha Stöckmann, Paula van der Heijden and Olivia Wittkuhn
Direction and choreography: Jenny Beyer, Antje Pfundtner, URSina Tossi (Shared Leadership in Dance)
Stage: Yvonne Marcour and Irene Pätzug
Costumes: Yvonne Marcour
Music and composition: Jetzmann, Nikolaus Woernle and Johannes Miethke
Dramaturgy: Anne Kersting and Till Wiebel
Theatre education and production management: Laura Brust
Audio description: Anngret Schultze
