DYING DUETS / SHIMMERING
Performance mit Kirstie Simson & Charlie Britain / UK
am 13. Juni 2025 um 19 Uhr
dying duets is the extension of a Life process where we dare to stay with the questions, shimmering, as we embrace the vulnerability of fragility and living risk. Join us in a reflective space where moving as witnessing lays the ground for story.
Drawing on the radical softness of the heart-space, Kirstie and Charlie explore the carrying of death through life and the momentary deaths that reveal Life in its most essential essence. The one choice, within the myriad of possibilities, that is called for in every moment; the burning away, and the joy and transformation that is released.
Our work is an affirmation of the poignancy of human connectedness, and its implications for health and resilience in facing the universal and personal challenges of our lives today.
Kirstie and Charlie’s ever-evolving collaboration is centred on their shared passion and dedication for dance and healing, which manifests through teaching, performing, and co-creating.
Tickets: 15 – 20 € sliding scale
Ticketbestellung unter: info@tanztangente.de
More about Kirstie Simson:
Kirstie Simson (UK) has been a continuous explosion in the contemporary dance scene, bringing audiences into contact with the vitality of pure creation in moment after moment of virtuoso improvisation. Called “a force of nature”; by The New York Times, she is an award- winning dancer and teacher who has “immeasurably enriched and expanded the boundaries of New Dance” according to Time Out Magazine. Kirstie is renowned today as an excellent teacher, a captivating performer and a leading light in the field of Dance Improvisation. She recently retired after thirteen years working as a professor of dance at the University of Illinois. She currently resides in Wales and continues to teach and perform in the UK and internationally. Kirstie has been dealing with a life-threatening health issue since 2020 which has led her to question what health and sickness signify in our current global environment.
More about Charlie Brittain:
Charlie Brittain (UK) is a dramaturg whose practice is distilled through his work as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and rehearsal director. His passion lies in empowering others to take ownership of their practice and champion their values through dancing. Charlie continues to perform internationally with dance companies, independent projects and in collaboration with other artists alongside his choreographic work, which looks to the processes and innate wisdom of the body as a vehicle for learning and a means to extrapolate compositional methods. He is a sought-after rehearsal director and choreographic facilitator working across a range of artistic environments and ventures as well as a passionate teacher, regularly invited to lead classes and workshops for dance companies, educational institutes and festivals worldwide. He integrates his art with his practice as a bodyworker, sports rehabilitator, musculoskeletal health specialist and integrative health practitioner, specialising in the treatment, rehabilitation and education of dancers and movement practitioners as well as lecturing and examining on higher education programs in the UK and Europe.
