"How can we (re)connect to our bodies and each other within systems that are built to divide? What if pleasure and joy are necessary for change?"
These questions are central to Valerie Reding's choreographic work wet dreams, which premiered earlier this year and is now headed for Kulturfabrik in Esch-sur-Alzette, showing on Thursday, 17 September and Friday, 18 September.
Starring Reding alongside Bast Hippocrate, William Cardoso and Genosidra, wet dreams explores the liminal spaces between fluidity and friction, care and control, rethinking embodiment and interdependence.
In practice, guests can expect a techno-futuristic performance art, complete with water tanks and suffuse with ideas of hydro-feminism – positing the body as a body of water.
With wet dreams, Reding aims to recentre the bodily in an age where it is increasingly objectified. Coupled with ideas of pleasure activism, in which feeling good becomes a means of reclaiming bodily autonomy, guests can expect an eye-opening exploration of human bodies in a an inhuman landscape.
As the choreographic work's description reads:
The air is thick and heavy with smoke and steam. A faint flicker of light dances across the wet concrete. Distorted metallic sounds echo through the ruins, pulsating relentlessly. There, in the shadows, strange creatures linger. If you look closely, you might catch them moving together through this fractured, haunting world.
Tickets to both perfomances on Thursday, 17 September and Friday, 18 September are now available for €20 at full price, with discounts available for students, professionals, and Kulturpass holders.
The Friday evening show also coincides with the Grand Dykes Community Hang Out at Kultufabrik, where members of the FLINTA community and allies are cordially invited to an evening of drinks, chats, music and dancing.
