Through the wire is the intimate meeting between choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess and one audience member in a one-to-one phone call. Our voices meet in the ether. Time and space are suspended, and we will slowly enter a fantastic world of dance, only through the power of our minds and intertwining words: What kind of dances, movements, bodies and spaces can we create together in the blackboxes of our minds? In the last year we all painfully had to learn what it means to live in physical distance to each other. Born out of the need to recreate the experience of the liveness of the performance, Through the wire offers a mutual listening and a new way of experiencing dance and movement.
Each session will begin with the question „How does your body feel?“ From there we slowly begin to use words that circle the body and form images and sensations of it. Gradually I will lead the conversation towards creating a joint dance piece, taking the spectator into a fantastic realm in which we will imagine the bodies, its sensations, movements and relationships, the sounds, colors, perspectives and so forth. It will be created in a dialogue and by tuning in together, while ignoring all the limitations of reality. It is about opening the mind and about dreaming together, practicing to think outside the box, to expand our imagination and our understanding of what dance could be and what bodies could look like, how they could interact and what abilities they might have. It is also about tapping into our desires. What kind of bodies and movements, colors and sounds do we want to experience?