Sabine Molenaar - Touch Me - Photo: Terri Florido
Sabine Molenaar - Touch Me - Photo: Terri Florido

Touch Me

By Sabine Molenaar

Touch me grants us an insight into a dreamlike universe of a recognisable but anonymous creature. It seems to come to terms with itself, yet repeatedly comes into conflict with it. In a bizarre series of tableaux, it shoots back and forth between fraught inertia and soothing bursts of energy.

The many facets of 'intimacy' are the guiding principles; its tenderness, hardness, vulnerability, loneliness, but also its beauty and comfort. What does intimacy do to yourself, to your body, to your self-image? And what if your own intimacy clashes with another's?

Touch me outlines that search in a chain of metamorphoses. Or the search(s) itself as essence, in the borderland where you dance with your shadow, and where being naked or masked blends seamlessly.

In the blink of an eye, it switches atmospheres, images, time and space. A taboo-free play with form and content that is infectious and at the same time perplexing. This is how Touch me also the back of things, and masterfully flirts with the boundaries of illusion and disillusion.

Premiere

2015

Concept, choreography & dance

Sabine Molenaar

Music

Malik Djoudi & Julien Lepreux

Lighting design

Filip Carpenter

Scenography

Amber Vandenhoeck & Filip Timmerman

Dramaturgy

Lena Meckler

Production

Sandman

Executive producer

Cosmonaut

Co-production

Workspacebrussels, Dansbrabant, TAKT Dommelhof, Festival Cement/Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond & ACT Festival Bilbao

With support from

The Flemish Community & CAMPO

More info

www.sandman.nl