Sebastian Weber Dance Company, The Long Run

In the organizer's words:

In the early 1990s, Sebastian Weber experienced the New York tap dance scene as a place that had left racism behind. The black masters of jazz tap practiced tap dance as a community of solidarity into which they welcomed young Europeans with open arms. "If you have a pair of tap shoes on, you are in!", said Gregory Hines and his brother Maurice seconded "Dancers don't see color" - and meant it in a positive way. 30 years later, Sebastian Weber, one of Germany's most important contemporary tap dancers, looks at the utopias of that time and today's understanding of racism. "The Long Run" is a piece about cultural appropriation and identity, about white responsibility and racism. It is also a very personal dance about transience and memory and an interrogation of the body as a repository of encounters and stories.