Bring no clothes

In the organizer's words:

Dance piece by Caroline Finn

"What am I going to wear?" Every woman and many men have probably asked themselves this question when looking through their closet for the right clothes for a special event. If they had been invited to the famous British writer Virginia Woolf's (1882-1941) house in East Sussex, they would have had it easy: "Bring no clothes; we live in a state of greatest simplicity." This is how she once put it in a letter to her colleague Thomas Stearns Eliot.

Virginia Woolf regularly concluded her invitationswith the phrase "Bring no clothes". By this she did not mean that guests should please appear naked, but rather that they should show no consideration for any dress code. And thus ignore the conventions of the upper class.

Caroline Finn takesa similarly unconventional approach to her choreography as Virginia Woolf did. In a refreshingly captivating way, she creates atmospheric images in "Bring no clothes" that have a lot to do with observing and being observed. For the Saarland State Ballet, Caroline Finn is reworking the piece she created in 2024 at Bühnen Bern as part of a two-part evening. The choreographer is developing it further and sharpening her associations with Virginia Woolf's cosmos.