THE SHAPE OF A MAN

Dialogue Dance Company / Ivan Estegneev & Evgeny Kulagin

THE SHAPE OF A MAN – Zwei oberkoerperfreie Personen mit Armen um einander gewunden, stehen eng zusammen; eine Person traegt ein schwarzes Oberteil.

The performance follows the figure of a man suspended between waiting and action, shaped by a Soviet body: disciplined, collective, and deprived of intimacy. Beneath this rigid surface, desire, sensuality, tenderness, and vulnerability gradually emerge.

Everything seems about to happen: an encounter, a touch, a performance. Yet the decisive moment is repeatedly postponed. Two male bodies become an archive of experiences and memories. Through a raw physical language, power and dependency, violence and tenderness, fear and longing collide.

Between personal testimony and Greek tragedy, the performance asks how masculinity is constructed and what it costs to hold on to inherited ideals of strength. Is another form of intimacy and selfhood possible?

Runtime: Thu, 03/12/2026 to Sun, 06/12/2026

Concept, choreography, performance: Ivan Estegneev, Evgeny Kulagin

Set and costume design: Manuel Ahnemüller

Music composition: Vasily Peshkov

Video: Ilya Shagalov

Lighting design: Manuel Ahnemüller, Aleksey Poluboyarinov

Technical direction: Aleksey Poluboyarinov

Artistic production and development: Katherina Vasiliadis

Executive production: Ruven Bricks

Photography: Florian Hetz

 

A production by Dialogue Dance Company, with the kind support of Trust for Mutual Understanding, Summa Artium, DOCK ART and DOCK 11, Kirill & Friends Company, Derida Dance Centre and La Mama, as well as fabrik Potsdam – International Centre for Dance and Movement Arts.

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• Date Thursday, 03/December/2026 19:30 ( 3 more dates )
• Venue Dock 11 - Dock Art Theater
• Address Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
• Price from €18.02

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