Emi Miyoshi
dancer / choreographer
SECOND BODY
The video performance SECOND BODY by SHIBUI KOLLEKTIV deals with the consequences of social isolation and loneliness of an older generation 65+ in times of the pandemic. It gives insights into personal experiences about the forced loneliness and distance of physical closeness and touch and the resulting longing for the intimacy of interpersonal closeness.
SECOND BODY explores the relationship between closeness and distance and examines the ambivalence and possibilities of how contacts and interpersonal contacts can arise. Can a touch also be created without physical proximity? Do imitations or textile covers offer an alternative to enable physical closeness to be experienced?
SECOND BODY sees itself as a research project and performance and was developed in encounters with amateur dancers and professional dancers.
PREMIERE: FRI 15.10. | 8:00 p.m.
& SAT 16.10.2021 | 8:00 p.m. | South bank
Public event: video presentation and discussion
free entry
In cooperation with E-WERK Freiburg and the Catholic Academy Freiburg
PRESS: Culture joker
WITH
SHIBUI COLLECTIVE
Artistic director / Emi Miyoshi
Dancers / Unita Gay Galiluyo, Anna Kempin
Participants: Balduin Bollin, Renate Brender, Edith Dewachter, Christel Jax, Beate Kiefer, Carmen Wörn, Gaby Zeis-Viroli
Dramaturgy / Monica Gillette
Costumes / Charlotte Morache
Camera and editing / Marc Doradzillo
Project assistant / Ann-Kathrin Harr
Funded in the impulse program "Art in spite of the distance" of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg | The project is supported by the Freiburg Cultural Office
In the Second Body project, the SHIBUI collective would like to deal with the consequences of the increased isolation and loneliness of an older generation due to the situation of the COVID-19 measures.
In 1: 1 encounters with senior citizens, their personal experiences with the currently forced abstinence from physical closeness and touch and the associated feeling of alienation due to the lack of intimacy in interpersonal relationships are artistically processed.
Together with the participating seniors, new forms of indirect and direct physical and artistic cooperation are explored and tested in the 1: 1 sessions with the help of various artistic media (dance, textiles, sound): How can the essence of interpersonal relationships be reformulated in such a way that also without physical contact and at a safe distance, via various artistic media, the equivalent
z. B. a hug is felt.
The encounters are accompanied professionally on film. The aim is to make the encounters and their personal experiences of the participant as a person 65+ in today's society and in this particular pandemic situation visible to an audience in the form of a video documentation.
