Latente explores touch as a form of manifesting what goes unseen but yet may affect by revisiting the Medieval and invoking its devotional powers. The three performers delve into the personal and collective memory of touch perception and images of touch to spin a poetic thread across personal biographies, personal dance archives and medieval corporealities and cosmologies reverberating from their skins.
The Medieval Time, an apparent “in-between” time that seems static and suspended, is used as a lens to look at the present. Letting time move in multiple directions, allowing the imaginary and the evident coexist in all what the opaque has to offer. While the past persists in our corporeal imagination, we are haunted by the nostalgia for a future that disappears as we approach it. Maybe the devotion to tactile knowledge and to what the latent teaches us to attend could become a way of navigating the present and its problem. Practicing a state that resembles the mystic and the loving, becomes a means of navigating this spacetime.
In Latente touch becomes a sense to be worshiped and to produce worship. In front of big questions such as the role of embodiment in the future, touch, as the primary sense that contributes to the own sense of embodiment, becomes something in danger, something to be protected . While Meditating on change and loss while feeling lost in dark times, the performance becomes a liturgy In a fictional space of cult in which the performers practice a ritual of preservation.
This intimate latent dance wants to reclaim the capability to grasp (with) our bodies as if it was something about to be lost. The eyes, the skin, the voice, the dance become a tactile organ that gives access to an array of yearning bodies and ghostly presences manifesting in the encounter between the performers and the audience.

Premiere: WUK Projektraum, 17.10.2024
Concept, Choreography: Martina De Dominicis


Creation, Performance: Martina De Dominicis, Magdalena Forster, Manuel Riegler 

Composition, Sound Design: Manuel Riegler


Costumes: Sarah Sternat


Space Design, Objects: Sarah Sternat, Patrick Winkler


Voice practice support: Veza Fernandez


Conversation partners and Dramaturgical support: 

Costas Kekis, Veza Fernandez 

Production: Sebbe Starlinger, Sophie Menzinger

Coproduction of Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn and WUK performing arts. A VORBRENNER project – funded by Stadt Innsbruck and Land Tirol.
With the kind support of the City of Vienna Culture Department, and the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports Austria.