It means a great deal to me that you have made your way to my new piece, Same Love.
With this performance, the dancers and I invite you to embark on a personal journey through love, family, fragmentation, misunderstandings, trauma, and hope. Together, we enter the vulnerable moments of our lives and open ourselves to the experiences that have shaped us and continue to shape us today.
In this piece, you will encounter dancers from Company MEK, each bringing their own story. Their individual experiences make this work unique. Yet in the end, they are all connected by love, this universal feeling that each of us experiences in our own intimate way.
Same Love is a deeply personal work based on my own experiences, expanded through the lived realities of the dancers. A significant source of inspiration was Şeyda Kurt’s book «Radikale Zärtlichkeit», which encouraged me to reflect on the political dimension of emotions.
Part of the performance includes a dance portrait of my parents, who migrated to Switzerland for work and faced everyday racism. These experiences shaped the way they expressed love and deeply influenced my childhood with my three siblings. All of this ultimately led me to ask: Is it even possible to create a piece about love that is not political?
Between tradition and societal expectations
There were many moments when my mother’s understanding of love stood in contrast to my own. Within Swiss society, I often feel misunderstood, as many around me struggle to grasp my reality.
Yet these differences pushed me to question and redefine my own notion of love. Through intense exchanges with the dancers, we have created a work that challenges the societal prejudices and norms that shape love and relationships.
Same Love celebrates the diversity of human experience: it portrays gender roles, breaks open stereotypes, and makes visible the many different forms that love can take. Same Love is more than a dance performance—it is an emotional statement for acceptance, tolerance, and empowerment.
I thank you sincerely, we look forward to sharing these moments with you.
With love,
Muhammed Kaltuk
Station 1 – 8 min / Station 2 – 4 min / Station 3 – 7 min / Station 4 – 30 min
