Where the Boys Are

Where the Boys Are is a creation for younger audience (13+), playfully exploring the intersection of dance and martial arts. Examining and reconstructing the vocabulary of different fighting practices, the two performers transform the arena into a zone of sensitive and intimate action, and expose different perspectives on relations between young men.

Choreography: Yotam Peled
Performers: Nicolas Knipping, Andrius Nekrasoff

The evening begins with the choreographic laboratory “Schattenspur.”
Choreographer Dörte Bähr opens the dance studio to both the audience and the dancers from Wildwuchs, inviting them to explore, create, and experiment together. Using the typical vocabulary of contemporary dance, the audience will have the opportunity this time to participate choreographically in the performance and to ask the dancers questions or give them dance instructions. The boundary between audience and performers dissolves, and choreographic collaboration as well as participation in the creative process of the new dance theater piece “Schattenspur” (premiere February 27, 2027) is encouraged. The Choreographic Laboratory aims to provide a glimpse into the otherwise intimate world of creative rehearsals, which is usually kept behind closed doors.

Doors open: 6:30 pm
Start: 7 pm
Duration: approximately 80 minutes
Admission: free

The performance is part of the ID:POMERANIA FESTIVAL #2, ZUSAMMEN TUN · POŁĄCZMY SIŁY · GET TOGETHER, which is part of the ID:Pomerania project, funded by the Interreg VI A Cooperation Program Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania / Brandenburg / Poland 2021–2027. A collaboration with MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN TANZT AN. 

MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN TANZT AN is a joint initiative of Perform[d]ance, Schloss Bröllin, and Theater Vorpommern. Funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the East German Savings Banks Foundation, and supported by the Hanseatic City of Greifswald.

A production by explore dance – Netzwerk Tanz für junges Publikum, a cooperation of the partners fabrik moves Potsdam, Fokus Tanz / Tanz und Schule e.V. Munich, K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg and HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden. Supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund and DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR Hilfsprogramm Tanz, the Department of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, the City of Potsdam and the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg as well as by the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art and the City of Dresden.

(c) Johannes Malchow

Teaser; vimeo: Yotam Peled

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