“Long & Wild” is a durational experimental dance performance that creates a queer context for being intimately together through multiple shifting worlds where grief, transformation, and love intersect. It will be part choreography, part party, part funeral, and part community conversation. What if dance performance can simultaneously be time travel/communion/habitat/ritual that cultivates togetherness between audience and performers? “Long & Wild” aims to be an unruly overload of pleasure and critical inquiry that straddles and queers dominant notions of violence, care, pleasure, play, and gender.

In 2021 - 2023, Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud created three distinct choreographic works, individually and collectively, titled “Give me your heart. No, the real one.”, “Everything Deserves to Breathe”, and “We Are (nothing) Everything”. Within “Long & Wild”, they re-enter the material of these works through the intersections of grief, transformation and love. What happens when survival meets fantasy?

Accessibility Note
This work will be approximately 3 hours long. The performance begins with everyone together at 19 h. The audience is free to stay or leave at any time. There will be different seating arrangements with cushions, chairs, and standing options. The audience can shift their location and/or proximity to the performers at any point in the work. There will be a live DJ with loud music. Performers will be engaging with the audience verbally and physically (with consent). There will be access to a bar in the lobby and light snacks will be available.

Sunday 28.05.
15:00 Haptic Access Tour + 16:00 Audio description (language: German) conducted by Lena Michaelis (speaker) and Jess Curtis / Gravity Access Service (technical equipment). Registration at anmeldung@tanzfabrik-berlin.de or +49 (0)30 / 200 592 70.

The Tanzfabrik offers selected events with audio description and a so-called Haptic Access Tour (tactile tour). This includes live and recorded audio descriptions for blind and visually impaired visitors and, in addition, sensory access consultations.