19:00 - 20:00
Dock 4, Kassel
A forgotten cellar. Dust in the light. Empty archive boxes.
What remains, when history has been erased?
“The night was kind to us” transforms the stage and auditorium into a seemingly abandoned museum: white bases, scattered papers, covered in dust. The audience enters, invited to look – but the exhibition is above all one thing – file.
And then objects come into the spotlight, Objects that tell stories between Nepal and Germany. Worn by trans performers, they become evidence of a story, which has never completely disappeared. With minimal stage design and little spoken language, a complex evening of movement unfolds, looks and bodies. dance, Drag and performance interweave fragments of memory, Violence and self-empowerment.
Between emptiness and overwhelm, Between pain and glitter, images emerge, that irritate, touch and challenge.
How do we reach for a story, which is not stored in archive boxes?
And what have we been carrying within us for a long time?, from our history, in our movements and voices?
The performance invites you to do so, to let yourself be touched – by that, What is missing, and , what remains.
direction: Alma Roggenbuck, Ashika Magar, Maksim Fabri and Shuby Bhattarai
A production by the archive performance collective “bridging into our vaults”.
Funded by the Fonds Soziokultur e.V. and International Co-Production Fund Goethe Institute Munich.
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