"soft, slow & sweaty"
2010

The performance „soft, slow & sweaty“ is dealing with the psychological reactions on a refusal to fight.
What comes after ending the (personal) fight? In this particular case the factor TIME is examined.
By stopping the fight quasi the time also stops. This creates timeframes where a „being between the times“ is possible.
Parallel to this stress fields between the past, the present time and the future are appearing and the moment becomes
the base for a new quality of being.
Furthermore the  actual relativity of times, the transience of everything and the fading of historical experiences gets emblazed.
The time has an enormous influence on our lifequality, which is in order to this an important factum concerning sociocultural developments.
Formally the mixed media performance is based on the narrative structure of fairy tales. Fairy tales always happen in the past,
they are engrossed of the present time and their thematic contents are mostly moralizing. Filmic, literary and performative elements
enriched with self composed livemusic are creating a grotesque picture which sometimes reminds of the genre musical.
By using classical good/bad-fairy-tale figures the deconstruction of moralistic valuessystems is next to the above mentioned
another fundamental tone of the project.


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