In its Entirety

In its Entirety is a choreographic work in parts that never loses sight of the whole. Speech, voice, movement and sound overlap with personal affect and biography, perhaps even to be overwhelmed – by the ways in which the whole thing can collapse and yet be put back together from all the different pieces. So I will need to go back to my body and back on stage. A stage for the arms and the body. And for the words that can come from within. Is there an inner life to my arms? Even if they guard neither heart nor lungs? Arms are the joints that close and open up spaces, they are expression and touch. But also brutal. The corpus leaves behind the darkness and slowly moves towards the light while the arms are stretched out, to point out – or, rather, to reveal the cracks. ‘Long arms, she said.’ But arms are just as recognisable, and yet they are no signs at all. They are bodies themselves, bodies to record experiences, to preserve, to initiate, to plant, to arrange.” – Philipp Gehmacher