Dance performance

Like A Fish Out Of Salty Water

Nothing flows and everything stagnates — hnnngggghhh!

We translate the chronic disease endometriosis into poetic figures — with their manifold growths and everyday restrictions we fictionalize them into monsters. These poetic figures of endometriosis stand for abstract and at the same time threatening organisms that influence, challenge, and weigh down our everyday lives and yet are so familiar to us as lifelong companions in all their monstrousness.

Performatively, we question the lack of space for chronic diseases within a free-market logic: are not the chronic diseases the monsters at all, but the repressive capitalist structures under which we always have to carry on regardless of our state of health?

We create pleasurable counter-designs on stage, completed with transforming bodies, sound surfaces, choreography and a very very impractical pet.

Take a breath and get into our chronic aquarium!

Credits
By & With
Golschan Ahmad Haschemi, Marja Christians, Olivia Hyunsin Kim
Music + Sound Design
Sara Glojnarić
Technical Direction / Scenography
Franziska Wenzel
Costume / Scenography
Luca Maria Plaumann
Production Management
Caroline Froelich (Moin Moin Productions)
Fundraising / Strategy
Marja Christians / Juicy Frictions, Kollektiv Ahmad Haschemi Christians GbR
Coproduction
CLINCH Interlude, Theater im Pavillon
Supported by
Ministry of Science and Culture Lower Saxony, Fond Darstellende Künste NEUSTART KULTUR, Kulturamt Stadt Frankfurt/M, Ministry Hessen, Theaterhaus Mitte
Year
2023

Shows

  • Premiere at Pavillon Hannover 28 May 2023
  • Pavillon Hannover 29 + 30 May 2023
  • Theaterhaus Hildesheim 29 + 30 May 2023