Sebastian Weber Dance Company (D) »Bats«

Rough body-smart dance combines with hyper-realistic visual effects.

We are not alone on this planet. Billions of other creatures live with us and every finger point, every wing beat has consequences for all the others. The bat embodies the knot between man and beast. It marks the contagious beginning of the corona crisis as the crossing of a boundary between fundamentally different beings. Its bite transforms us, the zoonosis makes us all the same.

In their new piece, the Sebastian Weber Dance Company takes the bat as a model for an unsettling deep drilling. BATS is a bloodthirsty, dark, infectious piece about man as beast in a programmed reality. As a sensual creature between archaic and science fiction, dance and technology, sonar and infrared. Starting from the bat's depth-sensitive orientation in space, a dense choreography develops in a puzzle of real and virtual spaces. Amidst a jungle of cameras and screens, a flow of movements and atmospheres emerges, a constant mutation of perspectives and beliefs: Tap dance with rapid incidence. Algorithmic, elegant, restless!

BATS is the echo of a disinfected and digital world, where everyone is still connected to everyone else and be it by contagion. Rough, body-smart tap dance combines with hyper-realistic visual effects to network this hybrid beyond the confines of the stage in an online variant developed in parallel.