The newest production by Cooperativa Maura Morales, a foreplay about the cooling of the female body, is called Präludium der Kälte or Prelude of the Cold. Power inscribes itself into every stirring, every gesture, leaving its cold trace: It controls and monitors, punishes and disciplines, adjusts and drills. It simultaneously seduces, entices, fascinates, drives – its game unfolds, creeping into every last fibre. Yet the body, especially in dance, is also a utopian zero position: From it, every fantasy of a relieved elsewhere ignites. From seeming hopelessness, a foreplay with a hopeful ending emerges.