We have always tried to improve our bodies and balance out the shortfalls through technologies: pacemakers and hearing aids, chips and smartphones – you can no longer call this just science fiction. Ultimately within the body of a cyborg the borders between body and technology become blurred: biological and technological materials intermingle. Even dance attempts experiments with body techniques and allows the border between the natural and technological to melt away. This Thing I Am is the search for what we might will have been.

Artistic Director Martin Nachbar CHOREOGRAPHY Martin Nachbar, Lisa Densem, Sunniva Vikor Egenes, Benhamin Pohlig DANCe Sunniva Vikor Egenes, Zoe Knights (for Lisa Densem), Benjamin Pohlig LIGHT Bruno Pocheron PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Susanne Beyer COSTUME Marion Montel STAGE Martin Nachbar, Sunniva Egenes, Bruno Pocheron, Benjamin Pohlig

A production by Martin Nachbar in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE and FFT Düsseldorf. Funded by Fonds of the Capital Cultural Fund, the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs. In Co-operation with Milchhof and Uferstudios Berlin. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung

Photo © Dieter Hartwig