First Aid Training


photo: Johanna Hoff

Site-specific performance for 10 participants.

Developed in 2020-2021 during the pandemic the performance simulates the coming together of a group of people as an emergency. We misappropriate elements of a common first aid course as well as elements of other physical and mental forms of training. Two trainers guide the participants through different exercises in which collectivity and the relationship as a group are practiced in a radical way. Instead of preparing for an emergency, we meet to examine our coming together itself. We take apart gestures and positions and reassemble them anew. We explore how we are put into relation and how we could relate to each other differently. Can we rehearse the emergency?


"Even though the work on the performance began before the global corona pandemic, the performance and training of a collective situation could not be more timely: After a year of social and spatial distancing, the performance was a training in (re)coming together and collectivity." PD Dr. Gerko Egert, Theater scholar