Joy Alpuerto Ritter
Dancer I Choreographer

Director and Choreographer Joy Alpuerto Ritter teams up with creative collaborators Composer Lih Qun Wong and Visual Artist Lucian Patermann to explore the idea of modern pilgrimage through dance, visual design, electronic soundscape and storytelling.

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Passage 4.7

ties in the rituals of music and dance subcultures with folk and traditional forms of dance and storytelling. The physical and emotional transformation throughout the piece explores the idea of pilgrimage. A pilgrimage can be a festive communal experience, a spiritual journey, to test one’s limits and willpower, to heal trauma or emotional wounds, to find inner peace. A pilgrimage can also be a silent rebellion that gives a sense of empowerment, as well as a sense of resistance to defined social roles and expectations. How do we reinvent (reinvest) traditions to connect with each other again? To connect with ourselves? Where do these new rituals happen?

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Watch the documentary of the first research process​ HERE

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Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Minister of State for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.

Thanks to Theaterhaus Berlin Schöneweide and BattleROYAL studio Berlin

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