Cooperativa Maura Morales - SHAME

In the organizer's words:

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For years, we have been presenting the work of Maura Morales with great enthusiasm - a choreographer whose artistic development continues to fascinate us. In her latest production SHAME, together with four female dancers and a live sampling musician, she addresses the deeply rooted, often tabooed emotion of shame - made tangible through a radical, physical exploration from a female perspective.

In a society that is increasingly characterized by self-presentation, the feeling of shame is also growing. SHAME dissects this mechanism with a haunting combination of dance, acting, video and live sampling - an interplay that unfolds in an "aesthetics of suddenness".
From physical to sexual to social shame, the production creates an anatomy of shame-shock. It sheds light on silence, secrecy and judgment - the forces that feed shame - and at the same time questions the theater as a place of viewing and being viewed.
SHAME is an unsparing look at an often tabooed emotion and a physical narrative about vulnerability, visibility and the close connection between shame and gender.

Dancers: Kira Metzler, Giulia Russo, Einav Berkovich, Martha Gardner
Concept, direction, choreography, costumes: Maura Morales
Composition, live sampling: Michio Woirgardt
Dramaturgy: René Linke
Visuals, stage design: Manfred Borsch
Lighting design, technical direction: Grace Morales Suso

A production by Cooperativa Maura Morales in co-production with Theater im Pumpenhaus/Münster, Forum Freies Theater- FFT/ DüsseldorfSupported by Fonds Darstellende Künste
with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cultural Office of the State Capital Düsseldorf
Supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.