A PLACE CALLED HOME

Monique Smith-McDowell

Date

07/06/2025

Time:

19:30

Venue:

Kampnagel

Category:

Performance

📷 Juha Hansen

A PLACE CALLED HOME is a dance production by Hamburg-based choreographer Monique Smith-McDowell, which artistically explores the concept of “home” and its political, social, and emotional facets. The team, consisting of five performers and an audio describer who all share experiences of migration, delve into their own migrant perspectives in A PLACE CALLED HOME: exploring the losses, longings, joy and freedom wrapped in the meaning of “home”. The performers’ personal archives of knowledge flow into the artistic process, which intertwines music, artistic audio description and choreography. In this way, A PLACE CALLED HOME dives deeply – through dance – into an emotional, physical, and multifaceted world.

A touch tour for visually impaired and blind people is offered 45 minutes before the show.

Audio flyer in German language.

Simple Language

A PLACE CALLED HOME – A dance piece about home

What does home mean?
Something different for every person.
Home can be beautiful, difficult, political or sad.

Five performers dance in A PLACE CALLED HOME.
All of them have migration experiences.
With their bodies, they tell of:
– loss
– longing
– joy
– and freedom

The choreographer Monique Smith-McDowell created the piece.
Music and artistic audio descriptions in English are also part of the performance.
The result is a multi-layered and emotional dance piece.

45 minutes before the start, there is a tactile tour for blind and visually impaired people.

Created and performed by: Concept, Choreography and performance: Monique Smith-McDowell | Co-Choreography and performance: Anam (Lukas) Lubisia, Isidora Soto Frias, Lourdes Maldonado, Virendra Nishad | Artistic Audio description: Zwoisy Mears-Clarke | Music/Sound: Mona Reichling | Light design: Joshua Paul | Stage design: Leonard Schulz | Light Technician: Matthew Keir

Language:

English

Duration:

50 min

Content note:

Loud music, images of discomfort and pain, addressing migrantization.

Accessibility:

integrated live artistic audio description in English, German audio description available through headphones.

Made possible by the revival and guest performance funding of the Dachverband freie darstellende Künste Hamburg, supported by funds from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Department of Culture and Media.