HANDARBEIT

What do our hands tell us about our life, our work, our actions? What have they helped me with? What did they carry? Who have they held? Can we create a common landscape from our hands? Our life story shapes our bodies. Personal and collective experiences are inscribed in our posture and movements. Can these experiences also be expressed through dance? Based on movement principles such as weight shifting, stretching and breathing techniques, choreographer Isabelle Schad initially develops small sketches in collaboration with dancers Josephine Findeisen and Claudia Tomasi and sculptor Nora Mertes as well as women from Bitterfeld-Wolfen, which focus on their own perception of their hands and tell something about society, being human and ageing in resonance with their own history. Gradually, a choreography and videography unfolds in the field of tension between inside and outside, intimacy and community, hand and work, grasping and letting go, miniature and total process. The resulting sculptures and landscapes are made of interwoven hands and images, in order to look towards the events of our time in solidarity.