In the "Performing Text" seminar, conceptualized by Hend Elbalouty, participants work with text and movements, utilizing text to generate movements that articulate our emotions and allow them to be evoked.

The theme of Fantasy and daydreaming serves as the backdrop for our creative writing and movement improvisation. Collaboratively, we craft fantasy personas and delve into numerous daydreams. This introspective journey examines our personal motivations, exploring how we engage in fantasies and daydreams. Do we employ them for escapism or to bring our aspirations to life? To address this question, we employ our bodies, voices, words, imagination, and technical skills.

Central to our approach is the notion of play as a vehicle for creativity. We collectively establish our own rules and let these rules shape the realm of possibilities,

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Performing TextSeminar 2021

The final project of the Seminar “Performing Text” in the online Semester of the University of Cologne. Summer Semester 2021.

Participants: Marlin Steenssens (bun on head), Sarah Hübner (not feeling like 22), Sophia Liu (eyes closed), Wiebke Johannsmann (lack of sleep), Van Nguyen (Vanilla) (Vanilla) Sarai Aporta (extraterrestrial), Giang Khuat (getting there), Juliana Langen (music lover), Devi Liebergesell (gloomy days), Louisa Lu (visible confusion), Hannah Bingen, Hannah Schumacher, Florentine Kirchhof, Sarah Otte, Jessica Seiffert.