2026 BODY ME

Title: BODY ME
Year: 2026
Date: 5 November 2026
Duration: 50 minutes
Venue: Bockenheimer Depot
City, Country: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Choreography: Cyril Baldy
Choreographic assistance: Pauline Huguet
Costumes, lighting, text and stage: Cyril Baldy
Composition and musical adaptation: Cyril Baldy
Performance: Sophie Borney, Jens-Antonio Schyth Brøndum, Manon Campion, Lander Casier, Emanuele Co’, Gilda De Vecchis, Audrey Desmurs, Samuel Denton, Jochem Eerdekens, Sam Huczkowski, Ori Mbazbaz, Antonin Mélon, Jan Chris Pollert, Abel Rojo, Jin Young Won. Dancers of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company.
Music: Frédéric Chopin, Étude, Op. 25, No. 12 in C minor (“Ocean”), recording by Olga Scheps; Matthias Muche, Fanfare, from the album Bonecrusher; Ryuichi Sakamoto and Motion Graphics, fullmoon (Motion Graphics Remix), from the album async remodel, courtesy of Milan Records; Elisabeth Coudoux, Physis, performed by Emiszatett and Elisabeth Coudoux; Daniele Guerrini, Maria (feat. Weightausend), performed by Heith
DFDC website: www.dfdc.de

Body Me is built from a simple decision: the bodies of the others become the source. Each dancer’s movement is not invented in isolation but drawn out of someone else’s—observed, touched, interrupted, borrowed, translated. The choreography directs how material is generated: bodies reading bodies, bodies shaping bodies, bodies passing on information that cannot be fully owned.

There is no linear narrative here, but a set of shifting situations. Solo becomes duet, duet becomes group, intimacy becomes distance, support becomes resistance. The piece treats the body as both matter and meaning: a physical reality, and a site onto which society projects care, fear, desire, control. We continually concern ourselves with the bodies of others—who may move, who must stop, who is allowed to be close, who is kept away.

Body Me stays with that tension. It asks what is created when the body is not only the center of dance, but the central question in general: how do we handle one another, how do we learn from one another, and what do we lose—or recover—through the act of making movement together.