Körper

Körper means bodies. “Körper” engages thirteen dancers in a particularly rich variety of movement. Linking architecture and body, “Körper” asks the questions: What is the body? How is it constructed? The dance analyzes morality, the quest for immortality, and investigates reproduction in the age of genetic manipulation. Sasha Waltz looks at the bodies in everyday situations. She observes their matter, their nudity, their rhythms. She measures and weighs them, counts hair, pours the liquids out, trades the organs. She arranges the bodies of thirteen dancers in order to create a series of spectacular tableaux vivants.

“I wanted to show her everything, everything about me that makes me different from everybody else, the length of my limbs, the color of my eyes, my widows peak and the hair on my bum, my long fingers, and toes, and forearms, and neck. The freckles on my shins and shoulders. The cracks in knees and back and jaw. And the scar behind my ear.”
Grayson’s story