Moleculising (Moleculiseren) – Connection in Motion

In a time where the individual takes center stage, the need for connection is growing. But what do we actually mean by that? Do we truly want to connect, or are we mostly driven by the ideals of self-determination, autonomy, and self-optimization as the highest values? Are we capable of genuinely opening up, of moving with the other?

This movement project focuses on exploring connection in the most literal sense. In a safe, playful, and intuitive way, participants investigate how physical, emotional, and relational connection comes into being. The project offers space to experience and practice what it means to “connect”—with lightness, joy, and imagination as essential elements.

Workshop Performance
This movement project explores how we can literally connect by being physically linked through dancesticks. This physical challenge forms the starting point for the performance. Performers find themselves in the most extraordinary positions, demonstrating surrender, creativity, and adaptability in order to maintain the connection.

The dancesticks are colorful and 1.5 meters long, with soft balls at each end. Two people hold one stick together. This simple act initiates a complex process: the body becomes restricted in its freedom, yet opens up to new forms of contact, cooperation, and movement. The limitation becomes an opportunity: a search for balance, for direction. Movements become twists, sculptures, forms of physical negotiation. Spatial compositions emerge—full of tension, humor, beauty, and vulnerability.

The workshop culminates in an interactive performance in which the audience can participate at the end. The dancesticks enable safe touch—between strangers, between generations—and offer a playful medium for encounter. Every movement is a joint decision. Every shape that emerges is a temporary “living molecule.”

Moleculising is inspired by intermolecular bonds. Just as molecules attract and repel each other, so too do people play with proximity, distance, rhythm, and resonance. What happens when bodies—unfamiliar with one another—choose to move as one?

Project Goals
– To create connection between people who do not or hardly know each other
– To stimulate body awareness, collaboration, and play
– To explore distant physical contact as a form of expression and encounter
– To make collective creation visible in public space

The project consists of:
– A performance with dancers and audience, with gradual participation
– A workshop in which participants explore connection through movement in a playful way
– A visual installation with video, photos, and drawings that document and represent the process