People who need people

Daniel Myers

Choreography, Stage Design, Costume & Light: Daniel Myers

Dance: Kiran Bonnema, (Greta Dato), Kenedy Kallas, Mei-Yun Lu, Marcos Novais, Yamil Ortiz, Rita Winder

Music: Jack Jones, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand

Dramaturgy: Johannes Schropp

People who need people are the luckiest people in the world. The image of a lonely person on a chair, in an empty, cold, white room. Bones resting on bones, scaffolding, one inside the other. This image multiplied, six entities, sixbodies, instrinsically scattered. What connects all these bones? What lies within the hollow, solitary, liminal spaces, the void? The idea of loneliness as an organ that makes space for itself in our bodies, working relentlessly, making us search for our very selves, alone and towards connections with other selves. The question of belonging not only within ourselves but also with others. A gentle exploration of possibilities of desire for the self or others, of contact, connection and intimacy. All the need, all the desire that we usually hide in our selves, released. How one can remain lonely within a group, could withdraw into oneself at any time, and yet each individually being there for others. The possibility of the togetherness of lonely entities struggling to find themselves and to hold on to something/one.

Photos: Tatsuki Takada