Catan Allay is an intense mass choreography for 30 dancers that explores how people physically cope with exhaustion. The restless body expresses and communicates on two levels—both as an individual and as part of a collective. Struggling internally, these bodies reveal a delicate protective shell surrounding a powerful core. They fall, rise, press forward, and engage with one another in a continuous negotiation of control, collapse, stillness, and departure.


Concept | Choreography: Patricia Carolin Mai
Dancers: Lisa Adolf, Martina Ambrozio, Lucian Blaga, Theresa Blum, Maryam Bozorg, Karla Nilza Lieselotte Böhland, Faizel Browny, Alice Detjen, Swantje Christine Dod, Roana Salome Falkenbaerg, Si-Ying Fung, Eva-Maria Hasler, Laure Hoeppli, Charlotte Höflich, Daria Hudzik, Paul-Louis Lelievré, Lina Lev, Hanna Naske, Sina Placzek, Lucia Rademacher, Florian Rink, Jana Rothe, Anton Rudakov, Peter Scharonow, Anna-Sophie Schönbeck, Wiebke Schwittay, Anna Sennekamp, Serfiraz Vural, Teresa Weiermann, Joschka Wiebusch, Heidi Andrea Wucherpfennig, Christin Zarzinsky
Photography © Kerstin Schomburg