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JOY (EN)

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

JOY is an artistic collection of the fleeting world of feelings that underpin our humanity.

JOY is a living archive of human feelings on the brink of disappearing – so long they are there, we are humans. As we dive further into the countless possibilities offered by technologies, as we trans-locate meetings into virtual rooms and trans-form ourselves to serve our ideals, a myriad of emotions struggle with legitimisation. Six dancers with different urgencies, uncertain of their futures, meet on the dance floor and search for different means and layers to (en)JOY – alone and together, elusive and overwhelming, JOY is in their memories, JOY is in their bodies; in colours, sounds and scents; in the space between hope and hopelessness; amidst sense and nonsense and in the freedom to create. But is JOY only that, what they assume?


The FORWARD DANCE COMPANY is the dance company at LOFFT - DAS THEATER.
Funded by the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism and by the City of Leipzig - Cultural Office. This measure is co-financed by tax funding on the basis of budgets passed by the State Parliament of Saxony.

Supported by DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Aid Program Dance.

CHOREOGRAPHY Nir de Volff 
FROM + WITH Mouafak Aldoabl, Simone Camargo, Cordelia Lange, Iñigo Laudio, Renan Manhães, Lisa Zocher 
COMPOSITION Daniel Benyamin 
MUSIC Daniel Benyamin, Zar Monta Cola 
COSTUME + VISUALS Moran Sanderovich 
ARTISTIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT + DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTING Gustavo Fijalkow 
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Leonie Kramp 
PHOTO Tom Dachs 

Past dates

12.06.2021
Saturday, 20:00
LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Saal
13.06.2021
Sunday, 18:00
LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Saal