During her residency at Hamburg’s K3 – Center for Choreography, choreographer, dancer and writer Claire Lefèvre will continue her research on radical softness as a performative practice and a form of political resistance. In response to the patriarchy’s discomfort with all things soft, vulnerable and emotional – feminine connoted qualities – she seeks sensory and tactile experiences. The goal is to soften fixed structures in the body (as after years of dance training) and move space as a hyper-sensitive entity.
Their research comes together in FULL MELT DOWN, a choreographed tour through a radically soft space. Visitors are escorted from one experience to another in palpable consent, enveloped in delicate textures and velvety dances. Characterized by these soft encounters, FULL MELT DOWN softens rigid structures in theater and body. Self-proclaimed radical softies invite you into a hyper-sensitive place where gentleness becomes method, subject, and portal to imagining (this) work.
Premiere: March 19, 2021 | 7:30 p.m. | Audience discussion afterwards
Further performances: March 24 and 26, 2021 | 7:00 pm
Digital tours: March 19 and 20, 2021 | 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
