Meet Your Dancestors!

SOME HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 30 BILLION YEARS! – A r/evolutionary show by Tentacular Figurings

Out of a dark, glossy mass, bodies start to materialize – everchanging in their shapes, in the ways they move and meet. In »Meet Your Dancestors!«, Berlin-based Performance collective Tentacular Figurings invites you to a r/evolutionary show, an undisciplined family* reunion with our pre- and post-human ancestors. Three performers will dive down into the primordial soup of our slimy origins in order to crawl, dance and sing their way into the blank spaces of scientific explanatory models. Using objects, masks and puppets, they expand their bodies to conjure up our speculative ancestors beyond normative constructions of species, gender and sexuality. It’s gonna get loud, and wild and electrifying! Leave your »sapiens« at the checkroom and Meet Your Dancestors!

Credits
Concept: Tentacular Figurings
Performance/Choreography: Mika Bangemann, Eddie von Seckendorff, Hanna Kritten Tangsoo
Stage/Costumes/Props: Eddie von Seckendorff
Dramaturgy: Olympia Bukkakis
Music: Mika Bangemann
Light Design: Hanna Kritten Tangsoo

Premiere: 24th May 2024 @ Ballhaus Ost

Trailer on Tanzforum Berlin : https://www.tanzforumberlin.de/produktion/meet-your-dancestors/

Full Video Documentation on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user201669892