Katharina Senzenberger: Lovedance

In the organizer's words:

Lovedance deals with love from a queer perspective. As a counterpart to the Lovesong, Katharina Senzenberger and her team embark on a search for a Lovedance that approaches love as a flight of fancy. The dance performance reflects on the possibilities of being together and designs new forms of togetherness.
The choreography draws on a collective archive of affective dance forms and romantic gestures such as the Viennese waltz and pas de deuxs from the entertainment industry, which are embodied and questioned by the performers.

Between dependence and trust, leading and following, resistance and devotion, the duet is dedicated to a practice of relation-making that speculates on how complex and ambivalently layered our relationships can become. Lovedance nests on cloud nine in a gently spectacular way. Without fear of overlapping expressive kitsch, confrontation, lightness, drama, rawness, care and maximum sincerity, passionate togetherness unfolds as a subtle intermediate state.

Katharina Senzenberger's choreographic works include stage productions, installations and digital works and have been shown at tanzhaus nrw, Tanzfaktur Köln, Lehartheater Bad Ischl, Favoriten Festival, tanz nrw, Horst Music & Arts Festival and many more. Katharina Senzenberger's very first professionally produced stage work Wetland (2022) was invited to Tanzplattform Deutschland. This was followed in 2023 by the second stage production a dance routine in the senzenberger|rieck collective. Lovedance is Katharina Senzenberger's third co-production with tanzhaus nrw.

Duration: 120 min. including intermission

Use of strobe effects.