Absent friends /different realities

2014, Project, Performance, Online and live performance at TanzFabrik Part of ‘First step to choreography’, Berlin, Germany

It happened that three of our dance intensive friends had to leave Berlin, because of denied visas.
All three of them came from outside Europe.
one of them lives in a country where dancing for her is forbidden, illegal, a crime, because she’s a woman.

We were looking for a way to continue dancing together and to overcome their absence, in spite of the impossibility of our bodies being in the same space.
We used the compromised freedom we could find in virtual reality.
we cried we played, we discussed and danced together through the internet.
and we improvise tonight with them and meet you with all these emotions.”