What happens when we let ourselves fall — and someone catches us?
équiLIBRE is a dance performance about balance as something fragile — not a fixed state, but an ongoing process that continually emerges and must be renegotiated in relation with others. Trust, responsibility, proximity and resistance are not represented, but explored through the body. Falling and catching become gestures of dialogue — moments in which relationship becomes visible.
The work was created within the three-year artistic framework sustainABILITY and engages with questions of social sustainability: How can coexistence be possible? What does equality mean in shared action? And how can sustainable relationships be formed?
At the core was a collaborative choreographic process in which the Creative Performers Lisa Wethkamp, Raúl Martínez and Belinda Winkelmann developed movement material together. The choreography did not follow a central authority but understood itself as a collective practice in which equality was not only addressed thematically, but enacted structurally. Different bodies, experiences and perspectives shaped the work and opened new ways of understanding connectedness and coexistence.
A central element of the performance was a rope installation that evolved throughout the piece, making structure, relation and fragile balance visible. Movement, space and material formed a system in which balance appeared not as a solution, but as an ongoing negotiation.
The artistic process was deeply shaped by the extended team. Music, light and costume were understood as integral parts of the choreographic work and, in close collaboration with Paul Normann, Steffen Melch and Domitile Guinchard, developed into a shared performative language of movement, sound, space and material.
In the context of ongoing social debates on justice, inclusion and sustainable relationships, équiLIBRE understands itself as an artistic experiment:
How can equality be experienced in practice?
And can dance open spaces in which social relations can be reimagined and lived differently?
Premiere: February 5, 2026 · Kammertheater, E-WERK Freiburg
