Kind of heroes – by Chris Haring / Liquid Loft

This is about heroes. The kind that come out of what Austrian choreographer Chris Haring calls “my private body shop.” But, of course, something has gone awry with the myth of these hero. Haring’s heroes are bashful. How can a bashful figure of a hero function? David Bowie ostentatiously and provocatively sings to those bashful souls: “We can be heroes…!” Yet, how is it possible for this body afflicted with awkwardness, this sellout item, this readymade, this body gone awry to become a that of a hero? In this heroic epic with the title “kind of heroes,” dancers Stefanie Cumming, Ulrika Kinn Swensson and Johnny Schoofs move through a stage set made by Erwin Wurm and dramaturgy done by Thomas Jelinek; filmed by Mara Mattushka and with bashful bodily (con)texts magically evoked by Kathernia Zakravsky.

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