The Weight of Words (TWOW)  is a performance-installation that exists at the meeting point of written text and the moving body.The piece takes place between a dancer, a visual artist and a poet together in a room.

As the words are projected the dancer is able to respond to them as a part of their instant movement composition. This creates a feedback loop between the text and the body that happens simultaneously.

Between the dancer, the writer and the visual artist there is constant flow of words and movement. What happens when a dancer, a poet and a visual artist are involved in a simultaneous process of real time composition, editing the material that comes up between them?

The Weight of Words will be produced by Stichting Knopen in 2016

Upcoming:

soon to be updated

Amsterdam Punt WG 12th-18th July 2016 Performances 16th and 17th July

Prague, Studio Truhlarna dates t.b.a.

Earlier presentations

10th April 2015  Lake Studios Berlin http://lakestudiosberlin.com/

25th November 2015, Lacunalab Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44A, 10999 Berlin

26th November 2015 , Kulturraum Mainzer 7 , Mainzerstr. 7 Berlin

Concept and movement: Manuela Lucia Tessi

Present and future collaborators pool:

Saara Wallraf: text
Johanna Gilje: text, movement
Renee van Marissing: text
Aude Fondard: text
Paula Montecinos: movement
Sarah Hermanutz: visuals and technique
Marcela Giesche: movement
Kristien Sonnevijlle: movement
Katerina Dietzova: movement
Emese Csornai: light design

thanks to Tomomi Adachi, Lake Studios, Kulturraum Mainzer 7, Lacunalab