HELL
2023
If hell were part of a man-made machine that keeps capitalism going, reproduces dualisms, colonises, destroys and never stops growing, then… If it provokes a desire for an earlier state, turns it into a fascist call for authority and the return of the same old thing, transforming the world into a place where neither living nor dying is possible, then… If crises are combated with the means that cause them, then HELL would be an attempt to block and transform them. In HELL, choreographer Ursina Tossi and the dancers surrender to infernal conditions and translate them into an immersive composition of contemporary dance, integrated artistic audio description and German sign language. Inspired by mythological and pop-cultural concepts of hell, they stage the dance floor as an intermediate space for transformations. HELL grants access to the darkness of the cave, leads through burning rubbish dumps, through a backwards-flowing waterfall into glaring light.