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Ursina Tossi: Hell
Kampnagel - K1
Possible triggers: Linguistic and visual representation of moments of death and experiences of violence. The performances share strategies and revenge fantasies with the audience
An Erotic Affirmation of Death, Darkness and Disaster
If hell were part of a man-made machine that keeps capitalism going, that reproduces dualisms, colonises, destroys and never stops growing, then... If it provokes the desire for an earlier state, turns into a fascist call for authority and, after the return of the same old thing, transforms the world into a place where neither living nor dying is possible, then... If the crises are fought with the means that cause them, then HELL would be an attempt to block and transform them. In HELL, choreographer Ursina Tossi and the dancers ...
If hell were part of a man-made machine that keeps capitalism going, that reproduces dualisms, colonises, destroys and never stops growing, then... If it provokes the desire for an earlier state, turns into a fascist call for authority and, after the return of the same old thing, transforms the world into a place where neither living nor dying is possible, then... If the crises are fought with the means that cause them, then HELL would be an attempt to block and transform them. In HELL, choreographer Ursina Tossi and the dancers surrender to infernal states and translate them into an immersive composition of contemporary dance, integrated artistic audio description and German sign language. Inspired by mythological and pop-cultural concepts of hell, they stage the dance floor as an intermediate space for transformation. HELL grants access to the darkness of the cave, leads through burning rubbish dumps, through a backward-flowing waterfall into glistening light.
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Kampnagel - K1 Jarrestraße 20 22303 Hamburg [ Winterhude ] www.kampnagel.de Event location 
