Über das Projekt:

“The boy who was swallowed by a Humpback Whale” is a solo dance research diving into the depths of fear, silence, and inner exile — an attempt to hear what modern life urges us to suffocate. Guided by the image of the whale, suspended between air and abyss, the work explores the weight of pain, the poetics of risk, and the reclaiming of breath.

Rooted in the artist’s Indigenous ancestry, the piece reflects on what he calls a cosmosomatic wound—the rupture between body, spirit, nature, and community. Through intense, poetic physicality, the research aims to become a ritual of remembrance and transformation: a choreographic offering toward decolonial healing.

Credits:

Choreografie und Performance: Lucas Lopes Pereira
Dramaturgie: Harrison Rodrigues
Bühnenbild: Lucas Lopes Pereira and Harrison Rodrigues
Musik (Komposition): Michelle Agnes
Musik (Technik): Harrison Rodrigues
Fotos: Ralf Silberkuhl, Harrison Rodrigues und Jürgen Steinfeld