I know you
I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you
I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream
La, la, la.

(Sleeping Beauty, written by Sammy Fain and Jack Lawrence)

Market of Love invites you to examine the ways love is being choreographed and the processes that lie behind this social choreography. Departing from two points –  the effect of mass media on the perception and purpose of love and its operation in the matchmaking world, the performance is questioning how love operates in today’s life economy. What are the processes through which emotions are made a commodity, and what is the logic that predetermines the way we relate, and that to certain extent choreographs our behaviour?

Lady Tremaine: What on earth have you've been doing?
Cinderella: Dreaming, that's all.
Lady Tremaine: Well, then wake up.

(Cinderella by Walt Disney)

author Dragana Bulut IN cooperation with Zeina Hanna, Chris Scherer, Heike Albrecht

Produced by Dragana Bulut in cooperation with Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart and STATION Service for Contemporary Dance, Belgrad. Supported by Ministry of Culture and Information of RS, Secretariat for Culture City of Belgrade and Goethe-Institut. Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Guest Performance Fund for Theatre, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Departments of Culture and Arts of the German federal state. media partner: taz.die tageszeitung

photo © Heike Albrecht