We live in the midst of horror and we’re used to it. Forests on fire, people freezing in their houses without heating, families running across the border while others go shopping. Lessons for Cadavers inspires in the physical language of horror – its exaggeration and hyperbole – to reflect the living dead of the present. Death here is a magical and grotesque realm inhabited by strange forms of life; a transformation zone. Three dancers move on stage through panic and wonder, violence and fragility, driven by external forces.

Production
Michelle Moura

Co-production
De Singel - International Arts Center
Something Great
Sophiensaele Berlin 

Funded by
Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program Neustart Kultur

Supported by
Étape Danse

Étape Danse is a network of Fabrik Potsdam, Institut Français Deutschland/Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse, La Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, Théâtre de Nîmes and Mosaico Danza - Interplay Festival Turin. With the kind support of the French Ministry of Culture/DGCA, Landeshauptstadt Potsdam, Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, Lavanderia a Vapore Turin and KODA Kultur. 

Residencies
PACT Zollverein
fabrik Potsdam 
Théâtre de Nîmes

Acknowledgements
Mateusz Szymanówka
Atalya Tirosh
Elisabete Finger
Nics Kort
Annette David
Nina David