DIG UP Productions

Speech of Love: Absence
by Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe
13./14. & 15.02.2025 am werk

A dance performance about intense and passionate love, our longing for intimacy and the fear of losing our loved one. Choreographer Elisabeth Tambwe confronts us that passionate love is often an unknown situation, a state in which you can get lost, which you cannot control and which you endure. For Speech of Love – Absence she took as artistic starting point Fragments d'un discourse amoureux by Roland Barthes, a plea for passionate love. Speech of Love – Absence is an artistic manifesto about the intense enjoyment of passionate love, our desire for intimacy and passion and the fear of losing our loved one. Tambwe visualizes in dance, performance and music the elusiveness, passion and ecstasy of love and the fear you feel when your loved one is no longer there.

Credits: choreography and concept Elisabeth Tambwe dance, developed and performances by Luca Bonamore, Annick Choco, Lau Lukkarila, Evandro Pedroni, David Ketterer // music Ursula Winterauer //light design Martin Schwab/Svetlana Schwin //video Eduardo Triviño-Cely //production Indra Jäger// produced by Dig Up Productions // coproduction WUK performing arts, FFT Düsseldorf

Kindly supported by MA7 Stadt Wien Kultur & BMKÖS, Big thank you to .park and

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000255355/sprache-einer-kunst-der-liebe