Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz Köln
Concept/Choreography: Annamari Keskinen, Ryan Mason / Thar Be Dragons
Rehearsal Director: Wencke Kriemer de Matos, Vera Sander
Dance: Maria Arenas Romero, Clara Böhm, Paula Castelli, Nadine Kribbe, Lena Luise Röthlisberger, Jona Schlotbohm, Wai Kin Wong
Dead Slow Ahead is a choreographic inquiry into slowness, titled after the nautical command to move at the minimum speed that still holds a course. It treats the body as a measure of time—carried, stretched, sensed—set against a culture of acceleration and overexposure. The work asks what becomes legible when pace is reduced: how attention thickens, how duration shifts perception, how care might be practiced without haste. Clear in intention yet open in form, Dead Slow Ahead proposes slowness not as retreat but as a way of steering.