Schritte Verfolgen means Following one's own footsteps in German. This might be how, as a child, Susanne Linke pierced step by step the silence that kept her away from the din of the world. Until the age of six she was unable to hear or speak because she had suffered meningitis. In 1985, the German choreographer, in some way Mary Wigman’s heiress, expressed through the strength of her gestures her angry conquest of speech by learning movement. Over twenty years later, she "reconstructs" this introspective solo, which she splits up between four dancers of different generations. Armelle van Eecloo, Mareike Franz, Elisabetta Rosso and Susanne Linke take turns in this strange journey. The bodies fight on the blurry edge of reality, jostled by the whispers of childhood and the noises of an unattainable "elsewhere"; they struggle at the heart of their intimate cacophony, caught between doubts and desires, until they can escape from their straightjacket and let the woman step forth.
Gwénola David
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