In “As long as the night twirls” five performers from North Africa and Europe grapple with traditional rituals of initiation and transition, plunging into extreme, uncontrollable physical states. Starting from their unique biographies, they create an emotional and spherical performance; a landscape of bodies, space, light and sound that points to a possible utopia in which we might get beyond binary social structures.

Josep Caballero García studied contemporary dance in Barcelona, at CNDC d’Angers (France) and finished his education at Folkwang School in Essen. Since 1994 he is working as a dancer, for Pina Bausch, Urs Dietrich, Doris Stelzer and Xavier LeRoy and others. Since 2008 he works as a freelance dancer and choreographer in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2009 he began with his research on “Le Sacre du Printemps” which he intensified in two residencies at tanzhaus nrw (summer residency) and at K3-Tanzplan Hamburg. Based on that he created a Sacre Trilogy: “Ne danse pas si tu ne veux pas”, “No [‘rait] of spring” and “SACRES”. He was invited to Tanzplattform Deutschland 2014 in Hamburg to participate in the format “Pitching” for young choreographers. In 2015 he developed the production “T/HE/Y”, a co-production of HAU Hebbel am Ufer, which was also shown at Kampnagel Hamburg and which returned to HAU in 2016. For that piece he worked, together with the performers Océan LeRoy and Black Cracker, about performativity, masculinity and assemblages. 2016 he premiered “YBRIDE”, a piece on gender, folk and intersectionality.
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