On My Tongue
On My Tongue
Four performers engage in a seductive and charged dance, navigating their relationships with one another's bodies.
On My Tongue delves into the sensorial practices that navigate the fragile terrain of consent, companionship, and politics of touch. Within an uncanny universe of opposing forces — where desire confronts fear and melancholia meets euphoria — it questions intimacy, trust and the role of the senses, and how we relate to ourselves and each other in increasingly complex ways.
Four performers engage in a seductive and charged dance while negotiating their relationships with each other’s bodies. Contradictions linger in the air as bodies and voices oscillate between domination and surrender, between resistance and embrace. With a sharp eye for paradox and a touch of humor, On My Tongue creates space for emotional loops and glitches in both music and movement, unraveling the intricate ambivalences of touching and being touched.
On My Tongue is a new choreographic work by Emilie Gregersen, developed and performed together with Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Paolo de Venecia Gile and Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen. It is the final piece in Emilie Gregersen’s “Touch Trilogy”, following Caresses (2021) and Touch (2020). The trilogy is a prism of works that explores a queer phenomenological understanding of touch, with each work offering aesthetic experiences and poetic reflection on how touch shapes our engagement with the world and each other.
Duration
60 Minuten
Credits
Premiere: Dansehallerne, Copenhagen
Co-production: Dansehallerne and ada Studio.
Residency: ada Studio and Holstebro Dance Company
Supported by: The Danish Arts Foundation, William Demant Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fonden, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Vesterbro Lokaludvalg and Københavns Kommune. Thanks to Lydia Östberg Diakité, Escarleth Romo Pozo and Camilla Lind for feedback and support.
Artistic direction and choreography: Emilie Gregersen
Developed and performed by: Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen, and Emilie Gregersen
Composition and sound design: Karis Zidore
Dramaturgy: Jette Büchsenschütz and Naya Moll
Light design: Vito Walter
Costume design: Erik Annerborn
Vocal support: Flavia Huarachi
Intern in choreography and performance: Pauline Michel
Trailer and Pictures: Ville Vidø
Film documentation: Kathrine Skibsted
Producer: Carlos Calvo
Administration: Astrid Gravsholt, Dance Cooperative
Heizhaus is accessible via two ramps. The first ramp is 6.60 m long and has an incline of 5.2%, the second ramp is 6.80 m long with a 6% incline.
Watch the trailer of the performance here.
Uferstudios
Stage:
Heizhaus
Uferstraße 23
13357 Berlin
Free entrance
Reservation required.