Cullberg / Faye Driscoll

The multi-award-winning, New York–based choreographer Faye Driscoll has been described as a wild, idiosyncratic postmodern talent. She has now created her first collaboration with the renowned Swedish company Cullberg – a contemporary dance performance featuring fifteen dancers which celebrates its German premiere at PACT.

In ›flesh chariot, chariot of flesh‹ , the performers exist in a state of “separate-togetherness,” navigating a porous boundary between individual agency and collective emergence. In constant alternation between dissolving into masses and splitting apart, the group vibrates into scenes. Together they ride waves of force that rupture stillness into collapse – an ecstatic overcoming.

The architecture reveals itself in layers – soft, hard, sunken, protruding – inviting a destabilized reading of depth, time, and gravity. As the body rides and is ridden by force, we ask: how does a body metabolize the uncontainable?