In their choreographic project ("they stayed restless"), Sophie Sengle used the theme of anger with a view to a gender-specific performativity of anger. The focus was on gestures, performativity, and physical reactions to anger. Sound, voice and gaze were important tools. The starting point of the research was the question: "How do we behave in situations in which we don't agree, in which we want to give space to our perspective, in which we actually want to argue (fight for something)?"

We reflected on the “culture of conflict” in our environment, for example in relationships, in groups (political, professional, peers), in the media, in global contexts, in stories based on our personal experiences with conflict. The role that space and the (power) position play in acting out aggression/anger accompanied us during the reflection.

In our research arguing/fighting is seen as a form of aggression in the sense that it is towards and outward directed as opposed to the energy being inward.

Body-guided memory exercises during research reveal a shared experience of argument: insecurity and fear of the consequences. Repression of aggression and discharge elsewhere (e.g. in close relationships or towards oneself). Experiences of arguments and afterwards feelings of guilt. Conflict experience and strengthening feeling. Throat, larynx, diaphragm, respiration, perspiration, voice, chest, gaze show reactions.

Beeing confronted with own boudaries and boundaries of the other, and feeling a connection to the "fighting self", we were wrestling and boxing during the research episode and translated this energy in futher movements.

Working on the personal experiences of quarreling and embodying it in a new performative context focused on looking at anger from different perspectives. In the future, the interest lies in researching about anger and finding collective forms of beeing with it.