Hands up von Tyler Cunningham & Emilia Dorr

In Hands up, a joint work by Tyler Cunningham and Emilia Dorr, there is the proverbial "elephant in the room": what everyone sees but no one addresses. The starting point is a lecture performance about political hand gestures of resistance - until a gesture emerges that makes the elephant impossible to overlook and tips the evening over.

The performance unfolds a multi-layered visual world: elephants read love letters, dance, exhaust themselves and finally dissolve. HANDS UP asks what happens when uncomfortable topics interrupt artistic research - and how attention, concern and listening can be the starting point for dealing with social conflicts in a different way.

Between humor, irritation and seriousness, HANDS UP negotiates political symbolism, collective silence and the possibility of giving space to the unspoken. A performance about gestures - and about when it is necessary to raise your hand.

Note

Language of the piece: English with German subtitles

Team:

• Concept / direction / performance: Tyler Cunningham & Emilia Dorr
• Performance: Stella Covi
• Set & costume design: Miriam Brunnert
• Sound design: Yuanbin Cao
• Outside Eye: Marina Mihalchuk

Credits:

In cooperation with RAMPE. Supported by Kulturamt Stuttgart, Ritter Sport and Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart gUG (FTTS). With spatial support from Produktionszentrum Tanz+Performance.