Third Skin

The performance “Third Skin” (premiered in 2023) by German-Spanish choreographer and artist Ana Lessing Menjibar, which will be shown at Radialsystem at the beginning of March, is a poetic reaction to the uncovering of her family history. It deals with the experiences of war and fascism, collective as well as individual wounds, and three generations of political resistance. In response to this exploration, the artist and her team devise the fiction of a chimaera in constant transformative movement between resistance and porousness.


In “Third Skin”, Ana Lessing Menjibar works with the (embodied) knowledge inherent in Flamenco, which understands the sharing of emotions as an empowerment of the body and a source of dialogue. In her specific, transdisciplinary style, she recombines these aspects with elements of visual art, contemporary dance and electronic music, resulting in the concept of an energetic cosmos made of bodies, sound, rhythm, language and sculptural objects in which the skin as a porous surface becomes a marker of time.



“Third Skin” will be presented at Radialsystem as part of the :LOVE: cooperation between Tanzfabrik Berlin and Radialsystem. With the Radialsystem ♥ Tanzfabrik initiative, the two institutions have joined forces to specifically improve the presentation conditions for dance professionals in Berlin.