Faust im Nacken – on tour

We sweat, we tremble, we flush, the heart beats, the breath is short. It is a familiar sensation for all of us: the feeling of being under pressure. Two performers enter the ring in dance performance Faust im Nacken, determined to fight the pressure. Through the interplay of movement, sound, and objects, an exploration ensues, examining what pressure does to our body, what puts pressure on us, and why pressure lurks in every corner. And yet, pressure can also form diamonds…

Faust im Nacken – on tour is the mobile version of the eponymous dance performance for a young audience that premiered at Theater Strahl Berlin in November 2022. The development of the piece resulted from a joint research process involving participants of the Summer Dance Workshop at Theater Strahl as well as pupils from the Gemeinschaftshauptschule Graf-Recke-Straße in Düsseldorf and the Anna-Freud-Schule in Berlin. During this, the youths’ various perspectives on the topic of “being under pressure” were channeled into the dance performance – from a critical view of grading systems at schools, the search for options to fight their own fear of the future to utopian visions of a world free of pressure.

Duration: 40 min.

In German, use of loud music. Age recommendation 12 - 21 years.

Interested schools can contact the School Department of Junges Tanzhaus at Tel +49 211 17270-41 or email mgrote-sinn@tanzhaus-nrw.de to invite the piece to their school.