Date: March 1, 2024 - March 2, 2024
Location: Germany
Accessibility
- No guided tour for this play, but earlier admission for everyone with support from “Access Friends”
- Doors open 30 minutes before the show; audience can explore and touch the stage
- Access Friends wear orange bibs and help with seat selection and stage orientation
- Communication assistant (DGS spoken language) is included among Access Friends
- Use of assistance is voluntary
- COVID test and mask recommended unless they restrict accessibility; avoid attending if symptomatic
- Discounted tickets for disabled, chronically ill, deaf, and neurodivergent people available with codes
- Personal pick-up service from nearby transport stations offered on request for blind/visually impaired
- Booking pick-up requires email or phone contact with name, visit date/time, bus stop, and show info
About the show
You squeeze my hand right before the steps begin. We dance together after the hospital calls. You lead me, hands holding, are we on a date after all? I say thank you and you ask: What for? Intimacy is the ungraspable feeling of warmth, eroticism, vulnerability or tenderness. In WITH OR WITHOUT YOU, the disabled dancers Fia Neises and Irene Giró invite the audience into spaces of “access intimacy” (Mia Mingus). They will disrupt prevalent habits of seeing, hearing and time and while hanging in the air, surrender to the illusion of independence. Accompanied by musician Jana Sotzko, they share stories of ambivalence and intimacy in assistance. Those who wish can participate or otherwise witness with pleasure.
Credits
With: Fia Neises
Artistic direction/performance Fia Neises Artistic co-creation/silktraining/performance Irene Giró Live music, audio description, post-production Jana Sotzko Conception and voiceover Saioa Alvarez Ruiz Dramaturgy Tanja Erhart Artistic co-creation Liv Schellander Dramaturgical support for aesthetic accessibility Ari Althaus, Xenia Dürr, Stefanie Heller, Silja Korn, Rita Mazza, Zwoisy Mears Clarke, Nina Mühlemann, Miles Wendt Production management Olivia Hotz Technical direction Lola Tseytlin Set design Lea Kissing Set Design Assistance Mareike Kraatz Lighting design Gretchen Blegen Costume Merle Richter Supertitles Maria Wünsche Film documentation Tanja Brzaković, Max Matthiessen, Jelena Bosanac Photos Xenia Dürr, Mayra Wallraff Communications assistanFlorian Köhler
Info
Friday, March 1, 2024, at 7:00 PM (Touch Tour and Audio Description)
Friday, March 1, 2024, at 8:00 PM (Performance)
Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 7:00 PM (Touch Tour and Audio Description)
Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 8:00 PM (Performance)
Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg
Info and tickets