Travelling without moving

In a co-production of the Togolese cultural and artistic network "La Fabrik" and the Münchner Kammerspiele, choreographer Serge Aimé Coulibaly and director Jan-Christoph Gockel create an intermedial dance-theater performance with dancers and actors from Togo, Burkina Faso and Germany on the topics of art theft, restitution and colonialism and connect pre-colonial history with post-colonial knowledge. Through the use of live camera and streaming technology, the ensemble creates an intermedial piece that connects two teams and two audiences simultaneously. In this analog-virtual space that spans continents and times, we will tell of ghosts that can wander without moving and that inspire without being someone's possession. In a Munich museum depot full of captured artworks whose ghosts are trying to record with their few remaining companions in Lomé, an Afrofuturist researcher encounters the ghost of the legendary West African princess and warrior Yennenga -a figure whose emancipation from her father continues to inspire women today.

With: Ramses Alfa, Ida Faho, Nancy Mensah-Offei, Michael Pietsch, Komi Togbonou, Martin Weigel, NN | Directed by: Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Jan-Christoph Gockel | Dramaturgy: Olivia Ebert | Artistic Advisor: Elemawusi Agbédjidji | Production: La Fabrik (Lomé, Togo), Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich, Germany)

Funded by: Goethe-Institut, International Co-Production Fund