I love my job 16 BIT is a contemporary dance production exploring the unique circumstances that allowed techno to become an artform and social phenomenon. Emerging from a decades-deep transatlantic cultural exchange, techno has given voice and purpose to marginalised communities, incubated scientific experimentation and courted the avant-garde through technological and cultural revolutions. It’s an Afrofuturist expression for the Black community in Detroit, and it embodied liberation and reunification as the Berlin wall fell. 16 BIT absorbs these ideas and examines the evolution of techno from the ill-defined, DIY landscape of 1980s electronic music through to the globally recognised genre that heralded the early 90s. As a performance, 16 BIT expresses the inherent energy of techno’s progressive arc in movement, embodying the music’s physicality and depicting the perseverance and exhaustion of the collective body as their symbolic, socially-charged dancefloor virtuosity takes on a hypnotic dimension. Developed with and danced by: @capucineos @danielconant @f.f.aria @kye_pai @steevsta isabellaparigi Idea, Choreography, Direction: @haptichide Concept: @haptichide Music: @nicolas_fehr Costumes: @rouge.ann, @jmfiebelkorn Choreographic Assistance: @formedview Lights: @the_ruhel_lighting Research: @oliwarwick Sound: #MauroZannoli Production Management: @dimancherie Company Management & Fundraising: Paula Rosolen Co-production: @balletnationaldemarseille @Mousonturm @Tanzplattformrheinmain Support: @kulturreferat_muenchen #HessianMinistryofScienceandtheArts @Tanzbuero_munich @Tanztendenz_muenchen @schwerereiter