Dream City

In its last productions, CocoonDance has consistently gone on a quest for the ‘unthought’ body. The result is more than just original dance pieces: “Experiments of the bodies, external and self-perception”, which open a new look at the body and movements. Movements which not only pull through the bodies of the dancers, but also those of the audience.

In the new project Dream City, CocoonDance is searching for a structure of multiform coexisting bodies, images of the One, further developed, more complex organism that communicates with itself. The choreography makes a physical form of communication productive, drawing inspiration from non-human, organic and instinctive processes. Bodies become in this regard bodies that are not identical with each other, but open to a progressive interlinked locomotion.

The artistic foundations of this project are based above all on the research of the motion quality of “other bodies”, which has become a far-reaching approach to the choreographic work of CocoonDance. In Dream City, CocoonDance dancers will meet children and teenagers from the Junior Company, urban dancers and parcour artists as well as DJ sound artist Franco Mento. They all merge into one organism, as a polyphonic synthesis of disparate components.

The title is borrowed from the essay Speaking in Tongues by British writer Zadie Smith, who describes her dream city as “a place of many voices, where the unified singular self is an illusion. (…) In Dream City everything is doubled, everything is various. You have no choice but to cross borders and speak in tongues.”

performances: Théâtre du Crochetan Monthey, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr Mülheim, Theater im Ballsaal Bonn