habermas disco - eine choreographische jam session, Micha Purucker (DE)

"habermas disco" is a choreographic jam session that plays with an incredible local coincidence from Munich in the late seventies, when Habermas was advancing critical social theory in Starnberg and researching his influential theory of communicative action, while Giorgio Moroder was working with Donna Summer on "I Feel Love" and the "Sound of Munich" at Musicland Studios in Arabellapark. The current disillusionment regarding many questions and problems meets songs from an era characterized by a belief in societal awakening and in the possibility of a fair and just coexistence. The disco as an egalitarian space for burgeoning hedonism.
Today, we sit disillusioned amidst the ruins of that bygone awakening. The euphoria has vanished, but the questions and the rhythm remain.

world premiere: January 9, 2026, 8 pm, schwere reiter
further performances: January 10, 8 pm + January 11, 6 pm

A dance evening by Micha Purucker with Aurora Bonetti, Clara Cafiero, Michal Heriban, Marcos Nacar, Hikaru Osakabe, Anise Smith, Polina Sonis
Music compilation: Micha Purucker
Arrangement and live overdub: Robert Merdžo
Lighting design: Michael Kunitsch
Video: Deva Acharya
Atelier: Manuela Müller, Marius Visean
PR: Beate Zeller

The audience is invited to respond spatially to the performers; there is no seating.
This project is supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the district committees BA 04 - Schwabing-West and BA 09 - Neuhausen-Nymphenburg. Micha Purucker is a member of Tanztendenz München e.V.