Tactile veneration – forged liturgy – haunting campiness: Latente is a sensual exploration of

embodied archives in the form of an artificial medieval ritual. Praying before opaque altars, three performers devote themselves to the erotic realm, worshipping touch as a practice of summoning nostalgia. One by one, layers of porous skin become time-travelling portals, opening to ghostly presences, fleeting dances and miraculous traces of a fading future. Bathed in scarlet light or swallowed by vanishing curtains, the dancers dissolve and reappear, centuries later, a memory of a body under the velvet gaze of already departed visitors. An invitation to plunge into holy waters in a church made of smoke, Latente’s carnal pleasures persist, guilt-free and liminal, suspended between baroque caresses and sensuous incantations. (Text by Claire Lefèvre)

Martina is a Vienna-based performer and choreographer. Her practice moves between self-initiated works and collaborations, often in support of other artists. She enjoys the dynamics of shared authorship and values process-oriented approaches. Her work explores the tension between the somatic and the formal—between what is felt and what can be communicated. She often works with dance scores that speculate on and attempt to embody the felt sense of other bodies. She is passionate about historical and conceptual ideas of the body, its representations, and the beliefs we attach to it. Her current research engages with in-between states of presence using touch- and sight-based practices. Her latest piece, Latente, was selected for the 8tension Series at ImPulsTanz, Vienna. In 2022, she completed a Master’s in Movement Research at Anton Bruckner University, Linz.

Date: Friday 04.07.2025
Time: 9.30 pm⁠
Meeting point:

Grubenstrasse 39

Grubenstrasse 39, 8045 Zürich

Feldstrasse, 8004 Zürich