»Pump« is the beginning of the evening, and maybe of a party. A warm-up, a ritual, a rehearsal of strength. Between choreography and bodybuilding, two performers explore muscle not as domination, but as relation—a medium of touch, support, repetition. They lift and pose, strain and hold, not to perfect a body, but to complicate what strength can mean. Between drag and discipline, spectacle and slowness, it opens a space for shared exertion. Posing becomes gesture, becomes form, becomes commemoration, becomes shared joy.
»Pump« is a project evolved through the participation of Rahel Crawford Barra, Nattan Dobkin, Emil Maria Ertl, Sarah Leghissa, and Simon van Saarloos, and will be performed by Rahel and Nattan in this iteration.
