World premiere: 30 October 2025, Wiesendamm main stage
Perhaps the time has come and we have already arrived in a time that will later be called: Do you remember the time when bodies became taboo and touch was lost? They were replaced by likes. Touching started to be disturbing: Too close, too suggestive, too curious, too freedom-loving, too sensual – simply too dangerous! Yet there has always been a great longing to be touched by something or someone, to experience security, to feel a connection – with the world, with my counterpart, with the raindrop that hits the tip of my finger.
Three choreographers defy disembodiment with bodies that touch each other and are at a loss for words. They not only overturn the law of human distance, they also call for a rethink of touch and ask: What about touching and being touched? What feelings and fears are associated with it? What is created in the moment of touch – a world, my world, my body, myself? Jenny Beyer, Antje Pfundtner and URSina Tossi invite young people to think about alternative presences and to try out forms of touch as encounters and communication. Young dancers between 14 and 21 do not stop at any body and stretch out their feelers far and wide. Whether human, air or stone, whether sensual or symbolic, they touch it, hold it, let it go, approach it again. Every now and then they say, as if it were the most normal thing in the world: Hello, I want to be touched. It doesn’t have to be long, but I’d like it now.
World premiere: 30.10.2025
Further performance dates: 02.+13.+14.11.+06.12.2025
Tickets and further information can be found here.
Direction and choreography: Jenny Beyer, Antje Pfundtner, URSina Tossi (Shared Leadership in Dance GbR, SLiD*)
Stage: Yvonne Marcour, Irene Pätzug
Costumes: Yvonne Marcour
Music and composition: Jetzmann, Nikolaus Woernle, Johannes Miethke
Dramaturgy: Anne Kersting, Till Wiebel
Theatre pedagogy and production management: Laura Brust
SLiD is a commitment to collaboration and to sharing knowledge, resources, and labor in the field of dance. It was initiated by the three choreographers Jenny Beyer, Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft (APiG), Ursina Tossi and their teams.
In cooperation with the Junges SchauSpielHaus Hamburg. Funded by the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien and the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS.
Photo: Sinje Hasheider