DEAD SLOW AHEAD​​​​​

 

Dead Slow Ahead is a choreographic inquiry into slowness, titled after the nautical command to move at the minimum speed that still holds a course. It treats the body as a measure of time—carried, stretched, sensed—set against a culture of acceleration and overexposure. The work asks what becomes legible when pace is reduced: how attention thickens, how duration shifts perception, how care might be practiced without haste. Clear in intention yet open in form, Dead Slow Ahead proposes slowness not as retreat but as a way of steering.

 

Bodies in slowness gather detail. The body both perceives and broadcasts time. In slowness, temporal texture comes forward—edges sharpen, thresholds appear; the gaze learns to wait. Peace, friction, tenderness, and doubt coexist, depending on where attention lands. This work lingers at the meeting point between an audience’s looking and a performer’s lived duration. Through sonic presence and sustained concentration, it invites an unhurried register of reality.

 

Work with students BA Dance at CCD / University for Music and Dance Cologne

Choreography by Annamari Keskinen and Ryan Mason

 

Performers and co-creators: Maria Arenas Romero, Clara Bhöm, Paula Castelli, Ndine Kribbe, Lena Luisa Rötlhisberger, Jona Schlotbhom, Kevkev

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Rehearsal Assistance: Wencke Kriemer de Matos

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Picture: Michael Maurissens 

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