Dorfproduct

Dorfproduct is an open company for choreographic and installative performance, founded in 2012 by Simon Möllendorf and Caroline Rohmer, and now directed by Simon Möllendorf and Björn Fischer. At the intersections of body, space, and social relations, we develop performances that strive for a contemporary ethical practice reaching beyond purely linguistic exchange. We collaborate with performers, sound artists, and other contributors on narratives that unfold as much between bodies and their ever-vulnerable, sensitive skin as they do between us and our manifold environments.

For us, performing arts are proof that even inadequate, even childish means can serve as a form of rescue. In a present that insists on supposedly inevitable courses of action, we collectively rehearse a practice of the unprepared—sometimes in free fall, sometimes hesitating, always consciously within the tension between the concrete moment and an open future.

Our choreographic practice begins with the body: its concreteness, its stories, its limits and transgressions. It always starts anew, arising from the physicality of each performer and entering into relation with space, sound, and other bodies. Choreography becomes the seed of an ethical inquiry: from the vulnerability of the skin to the shaping of the voice before language, to traces of tenderness within acts of struggle.

We understand the works of Dorfproduct as an open archive that carries forward and keeps open the artistic search in gestures, sounds, and relationships. What distinguishes us is that physical practices such as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu are just as much a part of our research as contemporary music. Choreography becomes necessary where the unprepared finds a form—not in order to be fixed, but in order to reveal itself in its unfolding repetition. Tenderness remains a recurring motif—both as a political decision and as a form of bodily contact beyond functional, normative, and identity-based attributions.