I Am The (Authy) Way

Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka - VR Dance Club

Interaktive, partizipative Tanzperformance von Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka (VR Dance Club)
Uraufführung am 4. Dezember 2026, weitere Vorstellungen am 5. Dezember 2026, Theater im Depot, Dortmund

 

“I Am The (Authy) Way” by Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka (VR Dance Club) is an interactive, participatory audio-dance performance about language, gestures, and movement patterns of power. It is based on the observation that authority today arises less through hierarchies than through self-presentation in the media and embodiment. The work explores how power is performatively generated through language and gestures and choreographed through collective dynamics, and how these mechanisms become individually visible, experiential, and negotiable.

 

Up to 60 visitors and performers share a space without the traditional separation between stage and audience. Through silent-disco headphones, they receive distorted spoken prompts, rhythmic instructions, and emotional appeals. Voices – ranging from authoritative to poetic – prompt movement and decision. The space is choreographed through a combination of sound, video projection, and dance movement. It invites visitors to uncover the mechanisms at play through their own independent actions. At the intersection of collective pull and individual action, a choreography emerges that makes authority, empathy, and responsibility physically tangible.

“I Am The (Authy) Way” focuses on physical co-presence in the post-digital space: How do authoritarian dynamics arise when physical, human bodies and their media representations intertwine? The central question becomes palpable through the body: How far do we go along with it? When does resistance arise? And how does it feel to opt out, to be left out? Afterwards, visitors leave the space: the tension between leading and following remains tangible, and open questions about authority stay with them.

Each performance is followed by a moderated discussion.

Performances

 

Fr 04.12.2026, 20:00 Uhr (Premiere)

Sa 05.12.2026, 16:00 Uhr

Sa 05.12.2026, 20:00 Uhr

Theater im Depot, Dortmund, Bühnensaal

Running time: 90 minutes including a moderated post-show discussion

Ab 14 Jahren, keine Tanz- oder Technikerfahrung nötig, bis zu 60 Plätze pro Vorstellung

Produktion

 

A production by VR Dance Club in collaboration with Theater im Depot Dortmund. With the kind support of the Cologne Game Lab (TH Köln) and the Academy for Theatre and Digitality at Theater Dortmund.

Förderung

 

Gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, vom NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, vom NRW KULTURsekretariat und vom Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.