JOY (2021)

A LIVING ARCHIVE OF HUMAN FEELINGS ON THE BRINK OF DISAPPEARING

In JOY, choreographer Nir de Volff and the dancers create an artistic collection of the fleeting world of feelings that underpin our humanity.

As we dive further into the innumerable possibilities offered by technology, as we translocate meetings into virtual rooms and transform ourselves to serve our ideals, myriad emotions struggle for their right to exist. FORWARD DANCE COMPANY’s second production, JOY, is dedicated to a vivid collection of feelings just before they dissolve and disappear.

Six dancers meet on the dance floor and discover different means and layers to (en)JOY themselves – alone and together. They dedicate themselves to different sensations of joy – to joy in their memories, in their bodies, in colors, sounds and scents. JOY is the space between hope and hopelessness, between sense and nonsense – the freedom to create. A choreography that gives free rein to feelings, whether joyful, carefree, exuberant or funny.

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY is the in-house dance company of LOFFT – DAS THEATER, an independent production house in Leipzig.

Supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, by the City of Leipzig - Cultural Office and by the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism. This institution is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon Parliament.

Supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz.

CHOREOGRAPHY Nir de Volff
FROM + WITH Mouafak Aldoabl, Simone Camargo, Cordelia Lange, Iñigo Laudio, Renan Manhães, Lisa Zocher
COMPOSITION Daniel Benyamin
MUSIC Daniel Benyamin, Zar Monta Cola
COSTUME + VISUALS Moran Sanderovich
ARTISTIC PROJECT DIRECTION + DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTING Gustavo Fijalkow
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Leonie Kramp

PHOTOS Tom Dachs