Nanine Linning and Bart Hess continue their successful collaboration in developing new hybrid installations or physical sculptures as proposals for evolution of our species. They create around the philosophical questions which are getting louder and louder as scientist push the envelop of the possibilities for self optimization and blending artificial life with our organic heritage in search for eternal life.

The two artists behind Double Helix have collaborated very successfully several times: Nanine Linning asked designer & video artist Bart Hess to collaborate with her for two stage productions. This time Linning wanted to go a step further and created, instead of a full-length dance piece, a much more open, experimental format: a concept which combines a museum exhibition experience with a theatrical and performative experience. 

Double Helix is dedicated to the effects of biotechnological developments in our society and within our bodies. The exploration at the interface between man and machine, technology and philosophy, this project, with 20 dancers divided over 4 rooms combines visual art, video and  performance using interactive elements for the audience to experience an one-hour guided tour as an individual ‚Gesamtkunstwerk’.

„Her experimental setup about the question of humanities future in a technologized world is astonishingly relevant.” Stuttgarter Nachrichten 

Credits

Concept, Regie, Choreographie: Nanine Linning

Objects, Costumes, Video: Bart Hess

Music: John Downland, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Michiel Jansen e.a

Artistic Advice: Peggy Olislaegers

Philosopher: Jappe Groenendijk

Executive producer: Thomas Guggi

20 dancers, a production of Dance Company Nanine Linning

premiere 2019, Germany

Duration: 60 minutes

Double Helix is supported by the Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung

Photographer: Emmanuel Viverge