Skin Deep

Tú Hoàng / Helge Letonja with the Ensemble Of Curious Nature

Two world premieres by choreographers Tú Hoàng and Helge Letonja with the company Of Curious Nature

The skin, our first all-encompassing contact surface with the world. No life without touch. Sensory richness that connects us with the world and strengthens our sense of self.
Nothing can replace the depth of a single embrace.

And the discomfort in a touchless world is constantly growing. Isolation, frustration and loss of the world – who doesn’t feel the need for an embrace?

Our largest sensory organ serves choreographers Tú Hoàng (Vietnam, Netherlands) and Helge Letonja (Germany, Austria) as the sensual basis for their choreographies with the international ensemble Of Curious Nature. Two intensely physical formal languages of contemporary dance promise exciting contrasts: Tú Hoàng brings his personal background of traditional Vietnamese dance and martial arts into his movement language and meets Helge Letonja’s emotionally multifaceted art of composing body expression.

In his choreography, Tú Hoàng also deals with the elementary aspiration of Buddhism in which a person distances themselves from all emotional turmoil in order to become free from suffering. Can this be a way to emerge from an overflow of digitally fueled projections in which the world seems to be drowning? Or, Helge Letonja asks in return, should we embrace one another more often in order not to lose our humanity?

_{Choreography: Tú Hoàng, Helge Letonja | Choreographic Assistance, Training Direction: Mariko Koh | Dance: Lys Cabral, Wan-Yun Chen, Jed Nagales, Tiago Reis, Daniel Sabia, Pere Sansaloni Servera, Carolina Verra | Music: Clara Cozzolino, Miguel Marin | Costume Design: Astah Camara, Csenge Vass | Costume Production: Jenny Podehl | Lighting Design: Carlos Heydt | Technical Direction: Nathaniel Johnson | Production: steptext dance project}

_{A production by TanzRAUM Nord gUG with steptext dance project, supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Senator for Culture Bremen and the Waldemar Koch Foundation Bremen.}

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