Inspired by the life of Helen Keller
One’s own body as an exile: not being able to hear and not being able to see puts massive barriers between people and their environment.
Helen Keller’s life contains all the steps of an almost unimaginable development – out of complete isolation to active multilingual communication and finally utter socio-political presence.
A piece about the discovery and development of one’ s body senses as an access to the world, about boundaries and their overcoming, about perseverance, imagination, unconditional will and unusual courage to communicate – and about how much we need them to live.
details
Idea: Doris Geist
Choreography: Günther Grollitsch
Dance: Doris Geist, Marco Jodes, Marion Kohlheim, Corinna Mindt, Christine Stehno
production
tanzbar_bremen in cooperation with steptext dance project
premiere
Premiere on November 29th, 2007
Schwankhalle Bremen
