Regina Rossi

“POLIPOLIS” is a performative, intergenerational audio walk that takes place in Hamburg's city centre. Equipped with headphones, backpacks and city maps, participants discover new images and ideas for living together in the city. They observe choreographies and small scenes of mythological chimeras, listen to stories from Hamburg's history and become active themselves by trying out poses and dance steps.

“POLIPOLIS” is a utopian city – a city of dreams – where urbanity and nature belong together, animals find their place, cars have disappeared, and children and young people have the freedom to express their feelings. As in an analogue form of augmented reality, or as if on a secret journey, the audience moves through the urban space together with four dancers and two guides. Even random passers-by become spectators and are invited to become part of the action.

Regina Rossi was born and raised in Brazil. She studied theater, choreography and performance studies in Porto Alegre, Amsterdam and Hamburg. Since 2009 Rossi lives and produces her own artistic works in Hamburg, which have been shown throughout Germany. The choreographer combines contemporary dance with popular movement cultures such as couple dance, samba or capoeira, as well as performance art and elements of pop-culture and feminist art. In many of her previous works she negotiated omnipresent Western female body images and ideals, which she opposes with her own, humorous, sensual and provocative aesthetics. Since 2018, Rossi also focuses on the production of performances and teaching of dance and performance strategies for children and young audiences.