Kinship is a performance that wonders about the limits of the human body in relation to the non-human, engaging in a dialogue with forms of life and life-forming processes.

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While acknowledging the complex present times we live in, this performance offers a gaze into malleability and resilience, It serves as an imaginative practice which makes us ask these questions: How do we face life in the time of crisis? How can we re-signify the way we perceive darkness? How do we inhabit a liminal space, a limbo of grieving?

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This performance is also a tribute to all the 'madres buscadoras' the relentless Mexican women activists who search for their missing loved ones. 

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In her project "Kinship," Janine Jop delved into creating fictional narratives inspired by our dystopian realities. Through movement, she explored the embodiment of a creature, merging with others to form a living, interconnected time-space. This process fostered a sense of contact and connection amidst feelings of being lost in the search for meaning.

The project drew inspiration from the ideas of Astrida Neimanis, Donna Haraway, André Lepecki, and many others.

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creative team

direction, composition and dramaturgy: Janine Jop

choreography direction: Guadalupe Raminez

creation and performance: Guadalupe Raminez, Viktória Šinkorová, Janine Jop (violin)

cet and costume design: Frida Navratil

light design: Birger von Lessen, Julian Krüger

video: Felix Knoche

sound spatialization: Michele Tadini, Alicia Reyes

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