What memories does a body carry within itself? In „The Weight of Tending“, the choreographer and performer Patscharaporn Distakul traces her own family history in an exploration of belonging and identity. Here she interweaves the memories of her grandfather, who is almost 100 years old and whose recall is fading, with her own experiences to form an auto-fictional choreography that uses dance, the voice and music.
The past and present meet in the question of how heritage, migration and cultural inheritance become inscribed in movement. Together with the musician Max Masahiro Levy Distakul draws on everyday rituals, dances and gestures that left their mark on her as she was growing up between Thailand, Italy and Germany. How are traditions passed on across generations, how do they change and take on new meanings? Here the choreographer also studies Western terms and projections onto Thai society as well as stereotyped concepts of identity and femininity. „The Weight of Tending“ tells of what people preserve, carry on and reinvent.
Infos
- Languages: English, Thai
- Duration: ca. 50 minutes
- World Premiere
- Mousonturm Coproduction
- Tue. 3.11. followed by Meet the Artistss
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Concept & Performance: Patscharaporn Distakul
Music & Performance: Max Masahiro Levy
Dance dramaturgy (research phase): Katelyn Skelley
Rehearsal Director, Co-Dramaturgy: Katja Cheraneva
Co-Dramaturgy: Mareike Uhl
Vocal coach: Johanna Milz
Production, artistic assistant: Julia Alsdorf
Outside Eyes: Wen Hui, Fabrice Mazliah
Light & Stage: Matthias Rieker
Production: take the money and run GbR
The Weight of Tending is a co-production of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
Das Tanzfestival Rhein-Main, ein Projekt von Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm und dem Hessischen Staatsballett im Rahmen der WDC 2026, wird ermöglicht durch den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain und gefördert durch das Dezernat für Kultur und Wissenschaft der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, das Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur, die Aventis Foundation und die Dr. Marschner Stiftung. Gesponsort von Energieversorgung Offenbach AG (EVO).
WDC 2026 wird gefördert durch das Land Hessen, die Stadt Frankfurt am Main und den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain.