What passes between generations? Between countries? What settles in our bodies, shaping how we move, feel, and imagine? How have our embodied relationships to ideas of land and nature transformed through time, and how do these shifts live on through us?

What is family, and who are we kin to in this place?

Otto and Rowan work together with family lineage as both material and method. Through dance, voice, image, and shared authorship, they explore embodied ways of understanding what it means to be human in a time of rapid ecological, cultural, and social change. Their personal histories become portals into universal questions of inheritance, difference, and belonging. It invites audiences to reflect, listen, and imagine new forms of kin.

This collaboration is a continuation of Otto Ramstad’s research from Lineage, which was presented at KHiO 2019 and Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival 2020. With artistic genealogical research as a backdrop, he and Uma will move from looking at the past in the present to looking from the present to the future.

“Beyond the visible… Somatic exploration and dance”, Tanzhaus temporär N° 12 of tanz*werk Kassel invites you to discover the connection between somatic and artistic practice in dance. Somatic methods are body-centered and work with the training of body awareness, touch and movement. In the dialog between body and mind, insights are gained into the intertwining of psychological and physical processes.