MEDIATHEK

"Protest is when I say this and that does not suit me, resistance is when I make sure that what does not suit me, no longer happens." (Ulrike Meinhof)
 
The fight-or-flight reaction describes the rapid physical and mental adaptation of living beings in dangerous situations. Do I endure the stress situation or do I resist, what kind of pressure does my environment produce and how do I physically handle it?
 
The drumbeat of the drums whips, caresses, pats, and taps uninterrupted 50 minutes through the room, in which a dancer body laboriously struggles out of a suitcase, as if he were his second skin and challenger in one. Next to it, the current news is on the monitor. In merciless simultaneity, the real images / news images bounce off the abstraction of art and create new associations every day.
 
"An intense beginning, which is laid down in 'fight or flight', the new production of Andrea Bleikamps wehrtheater, and the evening remains intense,  Dancer and choreographer André Jolles does not spare himself  in his fight-dance (...)meanwhile drummer Dominik Mahnig performs a barrage in a virtuous sense (...) An emphatic, interesting, even artistic evening. " Cologne Rundschau