unbound bodies / Marie Steiner and Alexandra Rauh

Anatomy of Desire | Anatomy of Awkwardness
performance double bill

Choreography Anatomy of Desire: Marie Steiner
Choreography Anatomy of Awkwardness: Alexandra Rauh
Project Management: Charlie Petersen & Alexandra Rauh Dance: Lena Schattenberg, Charlie Petersen
Composition: Mona Matbou Riahi, Wolfgang Eckert
Stage: Daina Kasperowitsch
Costumes: Lisi Lang, Eva Eidinger
Video: Miho Kasama
Light: Sasa Batnozic
Dramaturgy: Manuela Neudegger
Assistance: Karoline Krämer
Premiere: 05-27-2021

Co-Production: Tafelhalle Nürnberg
In Cooperation with MNEME kollektiv

Through a series of choreographic images, oscillating between dance and performance art, ‚Anatomy of Desire I Anatomy of Awkwardness‘ exhibits the nature of two opposing emotions.

The episode about longing presents a deep study of a basic human drive and embodies the feeling of desire in a formalistically consequent, abstract and visual choreography. The audience observes how a creature, charged and motivated by a deep longing, reveals its internal universe. 

In contrast the episode about awkwardness and embarrassment presents a light-hearted deconstruction of everyday disruptions in social interactions. It dedicates itself to the borders of shame and shamelessness and offers the audience a multilayered projection surface created by two bodies, voice, video and sound design.