But what if you fly? // NISS | POTAPOV
NISS | POTAPOV
01. + 02.10.2022 | LICHTHOF Theater Hamburg
But what if you fly? is a dance piece about desire, seeking the core of individual wishes and how these are clouded by a counteracting presence of longing. What are our true desires? What happens when desire is radicalized? How far can a feeling be stretched until it tears and painfully snaps back? Together with a live musician, the dance-performative duet explores craving and yearning in delirious states, opening the space to the question: But what if…?
Artistic direction: NISS | POTAPOV
Choreography & dance: Ann-Leonie Niss & Larissa Potapov
Composition & live-performance: Jan Paul Werge
Dramaturgy: Nana Anine
Technical direction & light design: Doria Worden
Dramaturgical guidance: Barbara Schmidt-Rohr
Graphic: Judith Hilgenstöhler
Photography: Steffen Baraniak, Andres Jana
But what if you fly? is a production by NISS | POTAPOV in cooperation with LICHTHOF Theater, funded by Hamburg Ministry for Culture and Media and Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
“Inspired by the deceleration during the Corona Lockdown, Ann-Leonie Niss and Larissa Potapov developed their choreography, which deals with personal and external longings.”
Tanznetz.de “Da hat jeder mal geheult” by Peter Sampel
“There is a lot of artistic will and also skill to be seen in the young duo Niss | Potapov. (...) The viewer surrenders to the intoxication of the ever new images, which nevertheless give pleasure. When both then spin in circles for minutes accompanied by the music, it is as if both are about to take off together with their dreams.”
Hamburger Abendblatt “Viel und am liebsten alles auf einmal” by Annette Stiekele
