Every Body Electric
Following her duet Ravemachine, Doris Uhlich is now continuing to work with people with physical disabilities on her concept of Energetic Icons, creating individual and collective energy dance forms in this company piece. Every body has specific ways of articulating its dynamics and fleshly pleasure. Movements themselves allow the body to become charged, they become a kind of endogenous fuel. Every Body Electric is a simple, but radical invitation to explore potentials through dance, to make them visible, and to delve deep into an archaeology of energy. What other possibilities open up when machines – for example wheelchairs, prostheses, crutches – are regarded and staged as extensions to the body? Personal rhythms, dynamics, beats and bodily characteristics lead to unique dance styles. The explosive power, but also the gentle or forceful poetry of Every Body Electric ultimately rests in how the performers perceive their bodies and how they are perceived.
The various performers work towards opening up their physical potentials. In this process I discover more and more that even a very small movement can be vehement. Normative ideas and concepts of energy and power are destabilised, shaken. Doris Uhlich
Every Body Electric can be invited in 3 versions: large (8 performers), medium (6 performers) and small (3 performers).













Credits
Choreography Doris Uhlich
Dramaturgy Elisabeth Schack
Performance Erwin Aljukic, Yanel Barbeito Delgado, Adil Embaby, Sandra Mader, Karin Ofenbeck, Thomas Richter,
Vera Rosner-Nógel, Katharina Zabransky
Light, Space Gerald Pappenberger
DJ Boris Kopeinig
Costume Zarah Brandl
Feedback Yoshie Maruoka, Theresa Rauter
Production Margot Wehinger, Theresa Rauter
Press, Communication Jonathan Hörnig
International Distribution Something Great
Thanks to Omar Gomez Hernandez and all assistants of the performers
Co-produced by Tanzquartier Wien, Schauspiel Leipzig and insert (Theaterverein)
insert (Theaterverein) is funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna and the Federal Chancellery of Austria.