RAUSGEHEN: Open Air dance performance

Wurzala

Luana Madikera & offensive dance

Choreography, dance: Luana Madikera co-choreography, dance: Arnold Toko composition, live music: Jarita Freydank Stage and costume design: Jaq Lisboa dramaturgy: Amelie Mallmann Production manager: Falk Grever

A dance journey of discovery to our roots

Roots stand for strength and resistance, but also for security and anchoring, for cohesion and growth. ‘Wurzala’ is the Old High German term for this. Two dancers go in search of movements that reflect characteristics of roots. They combine West African, Afro-Caribbean and contemporary dance and ask: How can we understand the complex connections and ramifications of life with the help of roots? Can we find solutions with our bodies when our roots come under pressure? How can we become stronger together, just like a network of roots?

For the development of the duet, they enter into an intensive exchange with a school class in order to explore the concept of cohesion and resistance through movement together with the young audience.

A production of Offensive Tanz für junges Publikum Berlin as part of the RAUSGEHEN project, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. In cooperation with the Berlin Mondiale and the Evangelical Congregation in Gropiusstadt.

*The Apfelsinenplatz is a junction of the Berlin Mondiale together with the Ev. Church in Gropiusstadt Süd. The Berlin Mondiale is a Berlin-wide network of cultural professionals and artists who deal with urban practice in the context of migration, asylum and exile.