Anne-Mareike Hess’s new solo in the air asks how a body can remain responsive in a world that both overwhelms and numbs sensation. Set within a carefully constructed artificial landscape, a solitary figure oscillates between the figures of Narcissus, encountering only herself, and Echo, endlessly seeking relation. Hess’s choreographic work, known for its combination of physical precision and emotional intensity, engages with a contemporary condition of saturation and fatigue, where attention is strained and feeling risks becoming blunted. Questioning whether sensation and connection might still be possible, in the air unfolds as a quiet search for resonance, not offering resolution but testing what it means to stay porous in a world that demands hardness.
On 27 November, following the performance, we invite you to an artist talk.
Concept, choreography, performer: Anne-Mareike Hess
Dramaturgy: Heike Bröckerhoff
Sound composition: Marc Lohr
Set and costume design: Sara Wendt
Lighting design: Brice Durand
Administration, production: Léa Wiplier – Beast Production
International distribution: Gulli Sekse – Re/Artica
Duration: 50 min.
Production: utopic productions
Co-production: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU), Escher Theater (LU), Neimënster (LU)
With the support of: Centre National de la Danse Lyon (FR), TROIS C-L | Maison pour la Danse (LU), Weld Stockholm (SE) - associated artist, Skogen Göteborg (SE), Ministère de la Culture (LU), Fondation Indépendance BIL (LU)
Coproduction in residency: O Espaço do Tempo (PT)
