K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg / Kai Er Eng

Starting from her own complicated work biography, Eng Kai Er explores personal and social meanings of work. She and the performers design elaborate experiments, stay faithful to timetables, and serve one another as professional playmates. But there is also a cat with very long whiskers, a broccoli, a bed made of money, and a hammer. And how does it all fit together? The rules of the games and the layouts of the experiments stay in the dark, while the performers trouble themselves over how society is organised around work.

During her residency at K3, Eng Kai Er mixed work, play, and rest. She spent time resting in the studio, led workshops and convened labs to play with others. Out of this process-oriented experimentation now arises an unpredictable choreography about a cat.

Kai Er Eng is a choreographer and performer from Singapore. In Singapore, she was supported by The Substation's Directors' Lab and was an Associate Artist at TheatreWorks. She was the founder of the experimental performance studio Make It Share It and studied MA Choreography and Performance at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen. She is interested in sport, intimacy and touch.