Premiere 12.09.2025 at 20:00 – Kunsthafen im Rhenania
In a place setting layered with contradictions, bodies gather—each one shaped by a different reality. Some move under the weight of silence, others pulse with resistance. They carry history, roles and expectations. Existing in systems that decide who is seen, who is heard, who is allowed to move freely.
Through the body, each movement reveals a different truth—one of survival, of defiance, of transformation. This work is a tapestry of lived realities, held together by breath, rhythm, and the shared desire to reclaim space. It is an invitation to witness, to feel the beauty and brutality of what it means to exist within, and beyond, the frame. It conjuresstrength from what was buried.
And somewhere in the in-between—in the silences, the slips, the almosts—something else begins. A new language. A different truth. One that doesn’t explain itself, but demands to be felt.
„Exotiques“ is not only a performance. It is an odyssey, a procession, a voyage, an emergence.
Artistic Direction, Choreography, Dance: Willie Stark
Choreographic Input, Dance: Yasmine Calasse & Laura Schönlau
Music Composition, Live music: Fallon Mayanja
Outside Eye: Balindile ka Ngcobo
Costumes: Kora Hamm with Willie Stark
Lights: Björn Nienhuys
Business Management: Bibiana Leufgen
WILLIE STARK 