Where the Boys Are

Choreography Yotam Peled
Performers Nicolas Knipping, Andrius Nekrasoff
Tour management TINA Agency

A production of explore dance – Netzwerk Tanz für junges Publikum, a cooperation of the partners fabrik moves Potsdam, Fokus Tanz / Tanz und Schule e.V. Munich, K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg and HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden.

Supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund and DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR Hilfsprogramm Tanz, the Department of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, the City of Potsdam and the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg as well as by the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art and the City of Dresden.

Yotam Peled & the Free Radicals acts as a project-based company engaging different freelancers. Focusing on contemporary interdisciplinary creation it addresses topics of gender, power structures and community rituals. The company’s independent creations include: ALPHA (2019), migrena2x2 (2021), fauna futura (2021), HEIMAT (2021), GET A GRIP (2021), Where the Boys Are (2023), FISTS TO FLOWERS (2023).

Yotam Peled & the Free Radicals acts as a project-based company engaging different freelancers. Focusing on contemporary interdisciplinary creation, it addresses topics of gender, power structures and community rituals. The ensemble was established in September 2018, following the creation of Entropia, as part of the ‘THINK BIG’ project at the State Opera of Hannover. Their creative process and output are centred around the body and the potential of movement to transform social codes. They tackle darker, inappropriate, or wild aspects of our existence creating both a space for healing and critical reflection.

Each project is a creation of a mini-universe, an attempt to deconstruct human mythology, and as such they often work with utopian and dystopian settings. The movement research and language of the ensemble is inspired by Yotam’s background. He trained in circus and martial arts, thus working with the extremities of the body and the impossible. He has also been involved in rave culture,  thus the use of repetition and emotional intensity.

The company’s independent creations include: ALPHA (2019), migrena2x2 (2021), fauna futura (2021), HEIMAT (2021), GET A GRIP (2021), Where the Boys Are (2023), FISTS TO FLOWERS (2023)