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Performance Dance 5.-8.10.2024
STRICKEN
by Magda Korsinsky

In German with English surtitles

When we remember ‒ being covered * shaping foam animals, a lot of soap = cleanliness * being dried off * thick butter on bread * when we leave with tears in our eyes * weeding * Oh God, two different socks * Don’t touch her hair! Mess up the hair! And my hair? * Greet the neighbors properly! * She can be disappointed ‒ or was it different back then?

A girl and her grandmother, an encounter between related bodies, between generations, epochs. Significant distance, female roles, body images, values; and yet the undeniable connection. The relationship with our grandparents is complex ‒ and probably underestimated. Especially when the grandmother grew up during the Nazi era.

In STRICKEN, a Black girl encounters her white grandmother. What do we not learn from our grandmothers! Concrete acts, like folding laundry; and with it a whole worldview of order, being dressed, gender roles. One day we move out from our parents; but the grandmothers? Is the emancipation from our own mother the unexamined affirmation of the grandmother? Which steps are inherited and when do we walk ourselves?

The visual artist and choreographer Magda Korsinsky conducted research prior to her choreography STRICKEN, in which six Black women were interviewed about their white grandmothers and their relationships. The resulting video interviews provide a unique perspective on German, Black history.

Photo: Zé de Paiva

A production of Kultursprünge at Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. The premiere production was created as part of the festival Postcolonial Poly Perspectives, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

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