Vielleicht ist es soweit und wir sind bereits in einer Zeit angekommen, von der es später heißen wird: Weißt Du noch, die Zeit, als Körper zum Tabu wurden und Berührungen abhanden kamen? Sie wurden durch Likes ersetzt. Berührungen haben angefangen, zu stören: Zu nah, zu anzüglich,

Perhaps the time has come and we have already arrived at a point in history that will later be referred to as: Do you remember when bodies became taboo and physical contact disappeared? It was replaced by likes. Touch began to be seen as disturbing: too close, too suggestive, too curious, too freedom-loving, too sensual – simply too dangerous! Yet there has always been a great longing to be touched by something or someone, to experience security, to feel a connection – with the world, with my counterpart, with the raindrop that hits my fingertip.

With bodies touching and not at a loss for words, three choreographers defy disembodiment. They not only overturn the law of human distance, they also call for a rethinking of touch and ask: What about touching and being touched? What feelings and fears are associated with it? What arises in the moment of touch – a world, my world, my body, myself? Jenny Beyer, Antje Pfundtner and URSina Tossi invite young people to think about alternative presences and to experiment with forms of touch as encounter and communication.

Young dancers between the ages of 14 and 21 stop at nothing and reach out far and wide. Whether human, air or stone, whether sensual or symbolic, they touch it, hold it, let it go, approach it again. Every now and then, they say, as if it were the most normal thing in the world: Hello, I want to be touched. It doesn’t have to be long, but I’d like it now.