When the world begins to falter, when the familiar dissolves and external unrest seeps into the inner self, the body begins to bear the unspeakable. Flesh and Shadow, the new production by the Urban Arts Ensemble Ruhr, captures this fragile present and transforms it into an abstract dance narrative about pain, identity and the quiet hope for connection.
Exceptional choreographer and dancer Rauf ‘Rubberlegz’ Yasit creates haunting images of the body that resemble inner landscapes – fragmented, distorted, pulsating. His choreography weaves abstract breaking, experimental hip-hop and contemporary dance into a radical, poetic language of movement. The bodies lose their balance, find new axes, fold in on themselves – as if questioning themselves.
The dancers of the international Urban Arts Ensemble Ruhr bring their individual experiences, stories and vulnerabilities to the stage. The result is a performance of great emotional density – a web of closeness and distance, resistance and longing, beauty and rupture.
