"Joy" is an evening-length dance production for five charmingly violent dancers. It explores the unexpectedly joyful art of stage fighting, freed from the constraints of plot and psychological realism. Intricate sequences of consensual violence form an exploration of Freud's notion of "Schadenfreude" — the ways in which we all take guilty pleasure in other people's misfortune.
Original German title: "Freude"
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