“Voices Across the Divide” combines dance, storytelling, and conversation to explore how people from diverse backgrounds experience and navigate the current political and social climate in the United States.

Drawing on interviews with Americans, fragments of their personal stories and perspectives are woven into a sound composition to which a moving body responds through dance improvisation. Rather than seeking clear answers or a representative picture of US society, the performance aims to create a space for the complexity, uncertainty, and human experiences that can exist beyond political labels. A dialogue emerges between voice and body, listening and responding, difference and recognition.

Following the performance, Prof. Felipe Fernández will offer an anthropological perspective on some of the themes that emerge, critically examining the terms “polarization” and “extremism” and questioning the liberal rationale through which these concepts are often understood. Rather than downplaying contemporary political conflicts, his contribution invites a more critical engagement with these concepts and the phenomena they seek to describe. The performance and talk will be followed by a shared space for reflection and dialogue with the audience.

Wann: Oktober 25th um 19:00 Uhr
Wo: Cargo-Theater im H15, Haslacher Str. 15, 79115 Freiburg im Breisgau-Haslach, Germany
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Performance: Rebecca Mary Narum • Talk: Prof. Felipe Fernández (Universität Freiburg) • In cooperation with: Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg & Cargo Theater im H15 • Funded by: Kulturamt Freiburg