Co-funded by the
Creative Europe Programme
of the European Union
Creative Europe Programme
of the European Union
Even the biggest revolution starts with the smallest of shifts. Even a gesture can inspire us to strive for freedom. MOTIONS OF REVOLUTION is about the rights to one’s own body. Based on the numerous ongoing demonstrations against the repressive and conservative government course in some European countries, above all the abortion law in Poland, the new choreography by Maria Zimpel, who was born in Hamburg, focuses on the body as a political place. In the tension between glitch and continuity in the music of jazz minimalist Wacław Zimpel and the video of Australian radical choreographer Rosalind Crisp, the dancing body is dissected in its concentrated states. Maria Zimpel, who is always looking for physical challenges and creates new, sometimes utopian perspectives on the world through choreographic processes, wants to show in MOTIONS OF REVOLUTION that the dancing body has always been and will always be revolutionary.