Angela Alves is disabled. From time to time a nerve in her brain will become inflamed and then, for example, her vision, walking or feelings will be impaired. She asks herself why disabled people always receive considerable recognition for fighting against their disease and making a special effort to appear competitive, available and sexy. Angela Alves doesn’t want to fight – least of all against herself. She doesn’t want to (be allowed to) be productive because of or despite her disability. She just wants to work with what she’s got. With the unavailable bodies that resist glorifying self-exploitation by accepting unpredictability and softening when they encounter themslves and others with hardness. This is a Soft Offer.
Angela Alves made headlines in prestigious cultural magazines with her solo performance with this title in 2019. Six years after its premiere, she returns to this work and subjects it to new scrutiny: how do we look at “diverse bodies” in dance in 2024? Who is laughing at whom? And is everyone genuinely allowed to join in everywhere now?
Infos
Duration: 50 min.
Language: German
Fr. 08.11., 8 pm, followed by cool-down
Sa. 09.11., 8 pm, followed by Meet the Artist
Accessibility
Accessibility of Location
Relaxed Performance
Sponsors and Supporters
Concept, choreography, performance: Angela Alves
Sound design: Nick Mavridis
Dramaturgical support: Alexandra Hennig
A production by Angela Alves in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE, with the kind support of mog61 Miteinander ohne Grenzen e.V. and Tonsturm.
Soft Offer is supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Guest Performance Fund for Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the German federal states. A guest performance in the frame of Tanzfestival Rhein-Main. Tanzfestival Rhein-Main is an event of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Hessian State Ballet, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and is funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture and the Foundation Alliance [Aventis Foundation, Crespo Foundation, Hans Erich und Marie Elfriede Dotter Foundation, Dr. Marschner Foundation, ODDO BHF Foundation, Foundation Polytechnic Society Frankfurt am Main].
