Selected Press, "I’m ok, You’re ok"

The duet „I’m ok, you’re ok“ pushes the game to widen the predetermined breaking point between dance and speech. A couple talks about their releationship and cultivates their memories ad nauseam. But underneath this agreement of harmony physical eruptions into absurdity, cruelty and humor lead to confusion.

Tageszeitung, 05.01.06

Hanna Hegenscheidt calls her piece „I’m ok, you’re ok“, and this phrase soon proves to be a k.o.-formular. A man and a woman, two chairs and a microphone – this is the setting. Only the therapist is missing, which makes the attempt of the protagonists to define their relationship even funnier. At first this works according to the pattern HE says, SHE says, but it doesn´t take long for the dissonance to come.

Potsdamer neueste Nachrichten, 05.01.06

In a kind of “podium discussion-setting” Angharad Davies and Christopher Daftsios tell the audience about their relationship – while reexperiencing different emotional states of their love story. (...) The choreographer has a sharp perception and a fine sense for the absurdities of everyday life. In her pieces she manages to walk the tightrope between pretence and amusing self-exposure. (…) She likes to throw the audience. Because of the exposed emotions they ask themselves: Are they acting or is this real?

Ticket, 29.12.05

In her premiere “I´m ok, you´re ok” she put Angharad Davies and Christopher Daftsios well-behaved on chairs. The couple chats, and Hanna Hegenscheidt lets this talkative communication-jam be interrupted by short, caricature dance passages. She never leaves the sketch-format, but this she knows how to do very well.

Morgenpost, 09.01.06