Jum’s

Jum’s is a performance by choreographer and performer Marion Sage, originating from images of the cabaret number Le Cheval, danced by Julia Marcus, who fled Nazism in the early 1930s. Sage extrapolates from this dance and revisits the underground choreography of 1920s Berlin, incorporating other movements, images, and stories. Central themes include domestication, enduring humiliations, overcoming obstacles, and finding ways to laugh. Sage asserts her kinship with political cabaret, blending animal archaeology with fantasy, and merging dance archives with mythology to create a hybrid body striving to break free.