Love Eats Fear for Breakfast • A Dance Piece by Mingfu Guo

“Love Eats Fear for Breakfast” unfolds in a darkroom – as both a space and a state of mind. Here, love, fear, and desire are no longer opposites, but forces that fold into one another, constantly shifting and reshaping – as if love grows through what it consumes. Moving between inner sensation and outward action, the work dissolves the boundary between the psychological and the physical. Four performers inhabit this space with quiet intensity, guided by slowness and control. Small muscular impulses, trembling, and sustained tension emerge and recede, forming a language of intimacy that is at once fragile and resistant. Touch appears as something uncertain – not simply comforting, but probing: testing distance, negotiating closeness, and tracing the edges of vulnerability. Rather than telling a linear story, the piece lingers in a state. Time begins to stretch, perception sharpens, and the audience is invited into a sensorial environment where change is constant, yet almost imperceptible. In the end, the distance between performers and audience will begin to dissolve. A shared space will emerge – open, porous, collective – like a darkroom gradually filling with light, where being is no longer fixed, but continuously forming through imagination, desire, and movement. Choreography by Mingfu Guo Dancers: Olivia Swintek Iliano Tomasetto Catarina F Martins de Abreu Giorgos Mitas Dramaturgy: Shawn Antoni Wright ＆ Andris Freibergs Music by Sebastian Fuchs Visual Arts: David M Schuh Poetry: Stefan Wirth Presented by Mamal Kianipour and Sheida Collective Door: 19:00 Start: 20:00