In Habitat, the naked bodies of people slap, vibrate and clash with each other to the sound of electronic and abstract techno tracks. Such a utopian place, where bodies can freely interact, touch each other's sweaty skin and breath together, seems far, far away in view of the current pandemic. However, Doris Uhlich is prepared to accept this challenge, to find out where and how this utopia can still exist in times of Covid-19. What does the impossibility of physical intimacy mean? What kind of energy, melancholia, desire or even pleasure and relief could be the result of keeping distance? The performers celebrate their unity in diversity, even while being socially distanced. The bodies are in search of real, communal experiences and create opportunities to connect with the collective energy. Habitat remains to be an unashamed hymn on the naked body that takes us beyond cultural inscriptions and normative beauty ideals. The body will not be reduced to a fetishized object, but we will encounter it in its materiality and it will thereby be shown in all its glory, mass and fragility.

This „pandemic version“ of Habitat will not only adhere to the Covid-19 regulations but it will take them as a starting point to find new ways of connecting with each other.

Habitat is a series with which Doris Uhlich temporarily initiates large ensembles. Each Habitat is developed with local people and transformed by the specific place and participants.

Concept, Choreography Doris Uhlich

Performance Local cast Vienna / Munich / Frankfurt / Bern

DJ Boris Kopeinig

Lichtdesign Sergio Pessanha

Dramaturgical consultant Sebastian Lorenz, Theresa Rauter (Vienna version)

Dramaturgy Rania Mleihi (Munich version)

Choreographic Realization with Robyn/Hugo Le Brigand, Katharina Senk (Munich version)

Body Tanks Proper Space (Juliette Collas, Zarah Brandl)

Confectionery, Tailoring Mick Hennig

Production Sebastian Lorenz (Vienna version), Nikoletta Fischer and Maja Polk (Munich version), Nikoletta Fischer, Sina Schönfeld, Özlem Türkan (Frankfurt version), Sebastian Lorenz and Caroline Komor (Bern version)

Administration Margot Wehinger

Presse, Communications Jonathan Hörnig

International Distribution Something Great

Premiere 03/10/2020 Tanzquartier Wien

Coproduction Tanzquartier Wien and insert Tanz und Performance GmbH

Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna.

Project partners of the Habitat-series are donaufestival / Krems, ImPulsTanz / Vienna in cooperation with Wiener Secession, Tanzquartier Wien, Münchner Kammerspiele, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm / Frankfurt a.M., Dampfzentrale Bern