Katharina Senzenberger

Lovedance deals with love from a queer perspective. As a foil to the love song, Katharina Senzenberger’s team goes on a quest for the love dance that approaches love in many ways. The dance performance considers possibilities of being together, devising new forms of community.

The choreography draws from a collective archive of romantic gestures such as the Viennese Waltz and entertainment industry pas-de-deux’ that are embodied and questioned by the performers. Between dependency and trust, leading and following, resistance and devotion, the duet is dedicated to a practice of relation-making that speculates how multi-layered and ambivalently stratified our relations can become. Without any fear for the overlay of kitsch, confrontation, drama, empathy, rawness, care, expressivity, and a maximum amount of candour, passionate togetherness unfolds as a subtle intermediate state.

Katharina Senzenberger’s choreographic works comprise stage works, installation and digital works and have been shown at tanzhaus nrw, at Tanzfaktur Köln, at Lehartheater Bad Ischl, at the Favoriten festival, at tanz nrw, at Horst Music & Arts Festival, and elsewhere. Senzenberger’s very first professionally produced stage work Wetland (2022) received an invitation to Tanzplattform Deutschland. The second stage production a dance routine by collective senzenberger|rieck followed in 2023. Lovedance marks Senzenberger’s third co-production with tanzhaus nrw.

Duration : 60 minutes