Tänze fast vergessener Geister

In the organizer's words:

Dances of almost forgotten spirits

Contemporary dance performance

by René*e Reith

"It is an indestructible conviction that love is, remains and will be earthly - because death cannot kiss." Liddy Bacroff

Together with her queer, transfeminist team, Hamburg-based choreographer, performance artist and dance scholar René*e Reith is staging an interdisciplinary performance that combines contemporary dance, biographical performance and choreographic sound design.

The focus is on the Hamburg trans artist and sex worker Liddy Bacroff, who was persecuted and criminalized under National Socialism and murdered in the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1943. She is considered one of the first trans women in Germany to be known by name and is today an important point of reference for queer remembrance culture.

Based on previously unpublished literary, autobiographical and philosophical texts from her imprisonment, which were researched in the Hamburg State Archive, the performance follows those ghosts that continue to work in bodies and return because something remained unfinished. In an interactive installation, the audience's bodies themselves become carriers of memory and imagination. Against the backdrop of increasing trans hostility, the work sees itself as an artistic contribution to a polyphonic queer culture of remembrance.

Artistic direction and choreography René*e Reith | Co-creation and performance Alexander Hahne, Heinrich Horwitz, Tubi Malcharzik, Géraldine Schabraque | Sound design and composition Katharina Pelosi | Set and costume design Malaika Friedrich-Patoine Lighting design Dennis Dita Kopp | Texts Liddy Bacroff, Alexander Hahne, Heinrich Horwitz, Tubi Malcharzik, Géraldine Schabraque, Marie Simons, René*e Reith | Dramaturgy Anna-Carolin Weber | Dramaturgical advice Text Marie Simons | Assistance for stage and costume design Chantal Börner | Production management and artistic assistance, graphic design and photography Jonas Mannherz