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2018
Moscow, Saint-Petersbutg, Berlin, Dresden
CO-TOUCH
Interactive performance

Cover image: from the video of Stephanie Hanna

Production
Concept
Katia Reshetnikova
Co-Development
Katia Reshetnikova, Kristina Petrova, Vera Shchelkina
Sound
Katia Reshetnikova, Yulia Glukhova
Induction of performers
Kristina Petrova, Vera Shchelkina
Created with support and for
New Space of Theatre of Nations (Moscow)
Video documentation and support
Stephanie Hanna (Berlin)
SHOWS
New Space of Theatre of Nations (Moscow)
2018
Performers
Liza Vladimirove, Natalia Doynikova, Maria Dugina, Maria Tirskaya, Ivan Gribov, Elena Shtopfen, Marina Shilina, Alena Papina, Polina Nikolaeva, Radmila Migulina
Production and show
Open Look Festival (Saint-Petersburg)
2019
Performers
Marina Shilina, Ekaterina Stepanova, Ekaterina Shemchuk, Polina Fenko, Alena Papina, Ekaterina Rimskaya-Korsakova, Vadim Elichev
Participating in festival
Festival Karusell (Hellerau, Dresden)
2020
Performers
Julia Sophie Kunde, Jaap Kanis, Johanna Bender, Lina Lev, Lilia Ossiek, Hannah Sampé, Alba María, Thomas Álvarez, Irene Baumann, Eleni Danesi, Lara Rosa Pauline, Violetta Artemchikova, Clara Conza
Production, participating in festival
Lake Studios (Berlin)
2021
Performers
Barbara Conde, Eleni Danesi, Polina Fenko, Nicole Tobien, Anastasiya Zarosylo, Katja Wiegand, Alexandra Zakharenko, Katja Häberlein, Rocio del Pino, Catalina, Lara Rosa Pauline
Residency and show
CO-TOUCH is an interactive performance and experimental laboratory that involves radically close contact between the performer and the viewer.
Devised for a small intimate audience of 10 people, this performance aims to bring more awareness towards kinesthetic perception and the excess of visual information. The audience is invited into an empty space where they get a blindfold and a pair of headphones: each will meet a performer to be moved and touched by. Together they embark on an immersive journey to refocus their attention on the body, its inner stories, and unique memories. The soundtrack is composed of binaural field recordings collected all over the world.

CO-TOUCH is an ongoing research laboratory that brings together contemporary dance, sound art, Axis Syllabus, Ideokinesis, contact improvisation, bodywork, and other somatic practices in order to explore the potential of tactile interaction and how performance can be perceived with the whole body.

Instagram: @CO-TOUCH.
CO-TOUCH
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Photo by Evgeny Vtorov

Video by Stephanie Hanna

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