There is no picture of my parents and me (until there was)

Pina Bausch Centre under construction, Bundesallee 260, Wuppertal
Admission 18€ / 9€

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There is no picture of Darko Radosavljev with his parents — until one suddenly emerges. Using absence as its starting point, the performance There is no picture of my parents and me (until there was) unfolds as a choreographic exploration of memory, projection and the question of how family images are created.

Moving between contemporary dance and pop cultural references, the body navigates different roles, projections, and ideas of how one is seen — and how one invents oneself. Memories do not appear here as fixed narratives, but as something that changes through movement, repetition and embodiment.

Rather than trying to replace the missing image, the performance continuously creates new family images: fleeting, performed, contradictory. Clothing, music, and gestures become carriers of memory and transformation.

Drawing from autobiographical material, Radosavljev develops a multilayered choreographic work about loss, identity, and the possibility of seeing oneself and others in a new light.

Duration: 60 minutes

Choreographer and dancer Darko Radosavljev, born in Serbia, lives and works in Essen and Berlin. He studied dance and choreography at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels as well as art and politics at London’s Goldsmith University and the London School of Economics. He was the first dance stipendiary of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation from 2010 until 2015 while also receiving the Entrance Grant of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion for his solo performance Seascape in 2018. His works have been shown at the Liverpool Biennial, the Performing Arts Festival Berlin, Act! Bilbao, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Uferstudios Berlin, tanzhaus nrw, Pact Zollverein and at tanz nrw. Darko Radosavljev was a Folkwang Dance Studio ensemble member from 2017 until 2023 and has worked with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Boris Charmatz, Reinhild Hoffmann, Xavier Le Roy, Susanne Linke, Nevin Aladağ and others. There is no picture of my parents and me (until there was) is the second coproduction between him and tanzhaus nrw.

A production by Darko Radosavljev, co-produced by tanzhaus nrw, supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Kunststiftung NRW and NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste.