Does hope help us to shape a different future, or does it block us and leaves us in an idle waiting line? Hope, as in
the future-oriented emotion, we know as individuals as well as society. It can be an engine for change, a tool for the development of utopias; without hope there is no change, no demands on the future, no thinking about what is possible.

But hope can also be a state of passivity, waiting, a stagnation and relinquishment of responsibility.

Anna Konjetzky’s new work moves between these two poles. “hope/less”, for which she and her team conducted a series of interviews. interviews; about hope, about its absence, about new beginnings, personal expectations, about the future and fears.
Anna Konjetzky & Co. would like to thank all these numerous discussion and interview partners – near and far, known and unknown – who shared their thoughts on hope,
future aspirations and hopelessness with the team of “hope/less”, they all became part of this piece.

“hope/less” thinks with four bodies in a stretchable and malleable one Space about the potential of hope/hopelessness as an individual Feeling and as a social condition – always with a view to the Ability of this emotion to initiate change.
“hope/less” thinks with four bodies in a stretchable and malleable space, about the potential of hope/hopelessness as an individual feeling and as a social condition – always with a view to the ability of this emotion to initiate change and transformation.

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Choreography, stage: Anna Konjetzky

Dance: Daphna Horenczyk, Sahra Huby, Quindell Orton, Jascha Viehstädt

Music: Stavros Gasparatos

Light design: Sanja Gergoric

Dramaturgical consultance: Maxwell McCarthy

Artistic prodcution: Rat & Tat Kulturbüro

PR: Simone Lutz