PREMIERE: W.I.R. // Tchekpo Dance Company // 16/11/21 // DansArt Theater, Bielefeld

PREMIERE: W.I.R. // Tchekpo Dance Company // 16/11/21 // DansArt Theater, Bielefeld


W.I.R. is an interdisciplinary dance piece for five dancers. Around the current crisis by COVID 19, we had to painfully experience that a lack of solidarity and and attentiveness lead to disaster. The sudden collapse of the visible/invisible threat has triggered a crisis worldwide. Our lives seem dramatically restricted. Panic breaks out. But such crises also hold unexpected opportunities. How do we create an effective strategy that can lead us out of the crisis? A strategy that could also be useful in the face of other global threats?

W. I. R. – An image as metaphor
A long red ribbon laid out as a meander shows the dancers the way until a until a sudden, disturbing apparition confuses their direction on the clearly marked path. on the clearly marked path. A confusion arises and despair breaks out. erupts. No one knows which direction to follow further. Out of the confusion arise knots, the knots become wild tangles. Only a common strategy can avert the danger. avert the danger… W. I. R.