Humanity is realising how much everything is tied to everything else – how much we are connected with other people and the world around us. If not before, we learned this the hard way during the pandemic. In her performance installation WE WERE NEVER ONE, choreographer Karin Pauer develops a language of the present and of mindfulness, an “embodied language of nowness”, translating this new state of awareness into choreography and movement.

The realisation of our overall connectedness transforms into text, embodied thoughts, hybrid objects, haunted landscapes sounds of extinction, and encounters in the moment of movement. This creates a practice by which we can learn to perceive our damaged planetary situation. WE WERE NEVER ONE is part of Karin Pauer’s series dances of the anthropocene, which challenges and examines our anthropocentric world view while at the same time trying to devise embodied practices of empathy and care.

Karin Pauer is a performer and choreographer. Following her studies of choreography at the ArtEZ Institute in Arnheim, the Netherlands, she collaborated with choreographers, film-makers, and visual artists such as Liquid Loft/Chris Haring, Davis Freeman, Mike O’Connor, Maureen Kaegi, and Aldo Giannotti. She has continuously worked with Austria-based dance company Liquid Loft since 2015. Her own pieces were presented at ImPulsTanz, Tanzquartier Wien, donaufestival, Salzburger Tanztage, Fabrica de Pensule in Cluj, Romania, the Wiener Festwochen, and MAMbo Museum/Bologna.
www.karinpauer.com