As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing

Kollaboration mit Celia Sidler, deuxpiece Basel

Performative installation over two days, 2013

The artist Celia Sidler stages with the dancer and choreographer Nina Willimann a charged situation of waiting. Over two evenings, the performance reflects a state between perplexity and imminent departure. An overheated, stuffy room, the floor carpeted and strewn with fun articles from table bombs, stale prosecco in glasses standing around and three guests who have remained seated, is reminiscent of a New Year's Eve party that began prematurely and from which the air is already out.
The slogan chosen for the title of the performance comes from Chuck Prince, the former chief executive of the American bank Citigroup, who, when the global financial crisis broke out in 2007, demanded that the show should simply go on. In the meantime, the effects of the crisis have become tangible in real terms, and in the wake of these experiences, the belief in the capitalist dogma of eternal growth is now also crumbling in many people's minds. As an alternative to the metaphor of "dancing on and on," an attitude of inaction is staged here: While the audience waits for the dancers to dance, they themselves become actors of waiting.