Resilient Grounds – A Dance in Exile

Resilient Grounds dances a dance on changing terrain that consists of ruptures, memory, resilience and reinvention. Out of necessity, which arises from the dispersed lives of the participating artists in Berlin, Vienna and Bordeaux, they explore the possibilities and opportunities of joint rehearsals despite physical distance.


Exile here stands not only for a geographical relocation, but also for an involuntary rupture of identity that necessitates a reorientation. In this creative state, a new form of listening opens up, as does a process of transformation. Thus the creative process itself becomes a political act: insisting on togetherness, assembling a future from fragments, finding continuity in the midst of ruptures.

With installations and dance, five dancers take up questions, themes and aspects of Grupo Oito's previous works that have remained unresolved and have not let them go. Like fragmented memories, they weave these parts into a common search for connection, resilience, visions of the future and spirituality - a dance between distance and hope.

Resilient Grounds is the prelude to the multi-year project Fragments, with which Grupo Oito is seeking aesthetic and practical answers to changing circumstances.