"The thought of the tremor characterizes the approach of this inextricable world." – Édouard Glissant 

When I tremble, the world trembles. What are the political and metaphysical implications of a trembling body in a trembling world? What resonant possibilities does trembling generate?

The artist has been diagnosed with essential tremor, a condition that causes her hands to shake visibly. In Tremor, she uses her condition as a choreographic technique and as a means of organization and resistance— exploring notions of the body as event or disturbance, as disability, as structural failure, and as the inseparable and ongoing movement of our material and political world. Through the superimposition of dance, language, and live drum compositions, the performer trembles toward a reconciliation between her body and everything there is to tremble about. After all, there is so much to tremble about.

Standing in the space, the audience has the opportunity to observe and thus support Sylvie Robinson's reconciliation. At the same time, the trembling itself becomes palpable. Because when the world trembles, you tremble too.

As the TRBL collective, performer Sylvie and dramaturge Louisa Raspé create textual and choreographic compositions based on their respective backgrounds in dance, anthropology, theater, and media philosophy. Tremor is a collaboration with musician and composer Akram Hajj, whose recent musical practice focuses on electroacoustic drumming and the application of hybrid piezo to daf and orchestral drums. Akram accompanies Tremor live on stage.

As part of the Treibstoff Theatertage Basel
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