Glitsch

Following ‘Habitat – pandemic version’ and ‘In Ordnung’, choreographer Doris Uhlich, known for questioning common preconceptions about body images, finally returns to the Munich Kammerspiele. Six actors immerse themselves in slippery worlds of slime. Slime is neither solid nor liquid; it is produced by all bodies and transcends bodily boundaries. In an age of binary thinking, in which people are broken down into predictable categories for digital exploitation, the ensemble gives birth to a collective, boundless body. While in our present day, intermediate worlds are increasingly drying up, ‘Glitsch’ becomes a lustful glide – an idiosyncratic ceremony of the fluid and ambiguous. The performers create a space for contemporary physical visions and intimacy – on stage, a fragment of a world that does not yet exist is created.

In her pieces, Doris Uhlich challenges common notions of dance and bodies and invites people whose bodies disappear in public onto the dance floor. She has worked with people with various disabilities, a former ballerina and homeless people, making no distinction between ‘professional’ dancers and amateurs. Her pieces often show naked bodies beyond simple eroticisation and provocation, thus becoming a celebration of the ‘imperfect’ in an age of surgical and genetic perfection. In 2024, she received the Austrian Art Prize for her internationally recognised Gesamtkunstwerk. Doris Uhlich believes in the power of the group and that theatre can not only proclaim change, but also create it itself