YOTAM PELED & the Free Radicals: Where the boys are
Examining and reconstructing the vocabulary of different fighting practices, the two performers
A game. A dance. A fight. A relationship. A performance.
‘Where the Boys Are’ is a playful exploration of where dance meets martial arts. Examining and reconstructing the vocabulary of different fighting practices, the two performers transform the arena into a zone of sensitive and intimate action, and expose different perspectives on relations between young men. Two opposing forces arrive to a match, each wishes to conquer the other, but eventually through continuous rituals of collision their bodies and movement soften. This new vulnerability invites one to discover the other and introduces new ways of physical contact – with care and support, which often do not exist in relationships between men.
Yotam Peled & the Free Radicals acts as a project-based company engaging different freelancers, focusing on contemporary interdisciplinary creation – addressing topics of gender, power structures and community rituals.
Choreography: Yotam Peled
Performers: Nicolas Knipping, Andrius Nekrasoff
Supported by Czech-German Fund of Future.
A production by explore dance – Netzwerk Tanz für junges Publikum, a cooperation of the partners fabrik moves Potsdam, Fokus Tanz / Tanz und Schule e.V. Munich, K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg and HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden.
Supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund and DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR Hilfsprogramm Tanz, the Department of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, the City of Potsdam and the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg as well as by the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art and the City of Dresden.