Disabled Theater

French choreographer Jérôme Bel and the Swiss company Theater Hora upset our perception. When the eleven performers introduce themselves on stage, are they being themselves or are they playing themselves? And when we allow ourselves to be transported by the energy and the immediacy of their solo dance numbers, aren’t we just giving in to cliché? And when we don’t want them to expose themselves to us, don’t we really mean that we don’t want to be subjected to them? This theatre is not “disabled”, on the contrary: Seldom has there been a performance more able to make use of the “live-character” of theatre. Nothing is predictable, everything can go wrong. Or can it?

www.hora.ch / www.hebbel-am-ufer.de