Patricia Carolin Mai

AND SO WE CAME TOGETHER

Imagine a couple dancing: two people who are neither the same age, nor are they particularly familiar with one another, nor do they know much about each other. It doesn't matter, because two people and their two bodies form the smallest unit of meeting. Where are their points of contact?
Patricia Carolin Mai's new piece questions this brief moment of encounter: Do I need dance to touch my counterpart? Or vice versa: Do I need touch in order to dance with my counterpart? Drawing on the tradition of partner dances, the Hamburg choreographer's group piece is about exploring the desire to want to touch each other in dance, as well as claiming the right for oneself to touch and be touched. For the third time in a row, Patricia Carolin Mai is working with a large group of dance enthusiasts from Hamburg of all ages, whose very personal, different views of the body and intimacy is sought out.

^{dance and co-creation: Andrea Krautkremer, Andrea Sander, Anke Kühne, Britta Lübke, Caren Jungclaussen, Celia Iriria Valverde Gerner, Christina Rohde, Corona Ropohl, Dorothea Derksen, Esther Meyer, Evelina Dineva, Gesa Krenz, Hannah Alena Herb, Hertha Dahl, Jule Abt, Jürgen Wehnert, Katrin Çetin, Lea Hufnagel, Lisa Lotte Giebel, Luka Zimmer, Moira Skupin, Nadine Jansen, Norbert Dorow, Reiner Kühne, Ronja Lüdemann, Stefanie Brand, Susanne Lott, Susanne Wehowsky, Theresa Baumeister, Ulrike van der Ven, Zora Welch | artistic direction, choreography:Patricia Carolin Mai | dramaturgy: Anne Kersting | scientific advise and communication: Britta Lübke | artistic collaboration: Lisa Lotte Giebel | musical conception and composition: Fanis Gioles, Alexander R. Schweiß | AKOI Quartett: Kalliopi Rizou (violin), Felix Ritter (theorbo), Christian Marschall (viola), Michael Heupel (cello) |texts: Tahni Holt, Anne Kersting |video: Daniel Takla Zehrfeld, Seda Kaçak |costume and stage: Felina Levits, Hanna Scherwinski | light design: Jana Köster | photography: Öncü Hrant Gültekin | graphic: Si-Ying Fung | production and press: Stückliesel}

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Patricia Carolin Mai

Patricia Carolin Mai is a dancer, choreographer and artistic director of MAI:COMPANY. She studied dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and performance studies at the University of Hamburg. Since 2015, she has been producing dance pieces at Kampnagel and K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, which have been performed internationally in countries including Belgium, France, Italy, Israel and Korea. Her artistic work in intergenerational and participatory contexts explores movement as a somatic and empowering practice and examines bodies in extreme states. Since 2019, she has been conducting research on soft skills in dance education as part of the EU project ‘Empowering Dance’ and works as a lecturer and mentor both in Germany and abroad. In 2025, she founded MAI:COMPANY – Hamburg’s first cross-generational dance company. From 2026 to 2028, she is deepening her work on community, participation and physical diversity with MAI:COMPANY as part of the City-State-Federal project ‘An Artistic Practice of Expansion’.

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