NAKED LOVE
- a love circle in dance
‘Old paths are abandoned, new paths curiously travelled ...’
Based on ten months of interview research - the LoveArchive - on the topic of ‘How do you love? Love in a transforming society', the DAGADA dance company and its five dancers develop a touching dance language that opens up a series of tender, painful, tabooed and hopeful encounters in ten episodes.
It deals with topics such as multi-serial monogamy, patchwork, loneliness, asexuality, long-term dating, porn consumption or the economisation of love services - the view of today's relationship realities opens up potential for conflict. But there is also a search for new, free forms of love.
NAKED LOVE is not a danced social critique, but an attempt to grasp the unspeakable essence of human beings and love in our time: Allowing and letting go as an indispensable rule in love.
A production by E-WERK Freiburg in co-operation with tanznetz|freiburg and the Freiburg Cultural Office. Supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. With the kind support of Aktionstheater PAN.OPTIKUM and LI-Germany.
Concept, artistic direction & choreography: Karolin Stächele
Dance & Co-creation: Christian Leveque, Marco Rizzi, Jonathan Sanchez, Natalia Gabrielczyk/Olivia Grassot, Simone Elliott
Concept & dramaturgical support: Sabine Noll
Music & graphics: Paul Tinsley
Stage: Sönke Ober
Light design: Natalie Stark
Production management: Luka Fritsch, Anna Kempin
Assistance: Katharina Ludwig, Sarah Minarik
Project management: Laila Koller / E-WERK Freiburg
Photo & video: Jennifer Rohrbacher