WACHE – Community-Storytelling: afrofuturistische-neo-Volkskultur-Mythen

In the organizer's words:

WACHE is the prelude to a multi-layered narrative thread that wanders between times, spaces and perspectives. Characters and their lives come to the fore as their stories unfold between margins, notions of modernity and unpredictable performative openings. Their existence depends on them being passed on and retold each time - changing, alive, resistant.

In Namenlose Wache, a story by Zwoisy, a myth is created around the figure of Wache. In Wache's world, the entire society lives on a huge ship - built from the wood of old slave ships. In this swaying cosmos, kinship, community and the unknown become ever more deeply intertwined.

Pink, written by Ogechi, springs from Zwoisy's story - as a translation of a dream of a 3D installation in which toxic masses, a collection of the in-between and soft bushes are intertwined. This narrative describes movements of memory and displacement that intertwine in spiraling reflections on afro hair and Polly Pocket.

Artistic direction, concept, choreography, performance: Isabel Kwarteng-Acheampong, Zwoisy Mears-Clarke

An event as part of the KUYUM Dance Platform 2025, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

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WACHE marks the beginning of a multilayered narrative thread that drifts through time, space, and shifting perspectives. Lives and characters move into focus, as their stories unfold along the edges-between ideas of modernity and unpredictable performative openings. Their existence depends on being passed on, retold again and again-mutable, alive, and resistant.

In Nameless Wache, a story by Zwoisy, a myth takes shape around the figure of Wache. In Wache's world, society lives aboard a vast ship-constructed from the wood of old slave ships. Within this swaying cosmos, kinship, community, and the unknown become ever more intricately entwined.

Pink, written by Ogechi, emerges from Zwoisy's narrative-a translation of a dream of a 3D installation, in which toxic masses, a collection of in-between states, and soft tufts are interwoven. This story traces movements of memory and forgetting, spiraling into reflections on Afro hair and Polly Pocket.

An event as part of the KUYUM Dance Platform 2025, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.