Duet (2025)
Shade Théret's performance Étoile Allergique is dedicated to the experience of illness and the accompanying processes that take place inside the body as part of an invisible geography. In a duet with dancer Alice Heyward, forms and modes of expression are sought that explore the transitional areas of health, illness, and possible healing, and negotiate invisible aspects such as injury, pain, and fragility. The performance is guided by an understanding of the body as a ruin, a living and decaying structure in which memories and traumas can be stored and recalled. Processuality, collapse, and permanence thus become perceptible as shared characteristics of the body and architecture.
Duration: 40 minutes
Concept, choreography, performance: Shade Théret
Performance: Alice Hayward
Light design: Ivan
Music: I See You
Stage: Amadeus Vogelsang
Costumes: Good&Bad
Curation: Susanne Mierzwiak and Feben Amara
Photos: Malte Seidel
A project by the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (nbk) in cooperation with Uferstudios. Funded by the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin.
