I dream a highway
Residencies
- 15.06 > 19.06.2026
I dream a highway is a contemporary dance performance with 2 dancers about our relationship to future kin and what we offer them as inheritance. It puts the audience into the position of the future, from where they see archeo-choreographic remnants from the year 2026. These remnants are an “archive of the present,” references from 4 contemporary dance works which premiered between 2004 – 2023. They are passed, like inheritances, in an echo between a body in 2026 and one in the future.
I dream a highway is inspired from the words of Nora Chipaumire, that “ancestors live in your bones, and even if you lost connection with them, they are there.” If there are ancestors in our bones, then surely we will live in the bones of the future. I dream a highway seeks to experiment with this relationality. Offering a landscape for envisioning a relationship with that which is both beyond and inside oneself.
choreography and concept Nathaniel Moore I performers Nathaniel Moore and Magdalena Öttl I scenography Maori Thiénot I music composition Charlie Usher I costumes Federico Protto I dramaturg Olivia Ardui I co-production Needcompany via Mill’s Reality Salon 2026 and Metarage I production advice wpZimmer and Kunstenwerkplaats I residency wpZimmer, Needcompany, Kunstenwerkplaats, Metarage, Zinnema, and A.pass I work in progress presentations thanks to Par Harasard x NTGent, Lundynamite x Theatre de la vie, and Beursschouwburg for believing in this work and giving it a chance.