Sebastian Weber Dance Company

In the early 1990s, Sebastian Weber experienced the New York tap dance scene as a place that had left racism behind. The black masters of jazz tap practised tap dance as a community of solidarity into which they welcomed young Europeans with open arms. “If you have a pair of tap shoes on, you are in!” said Gregory Hines and his brother Maurice seconded “Dancers don't see color” - and meant it in a positive way. 30 years later, Sebastian Weber, one of Germany's most important contemporary tap dancers, examines the utopias of that time and today's understanding of racism. “The Long Run” is a piece about cultural appropriation and identity, about white responsibility and racism. It is also a very personal dance about transience and memory and a questioning of the body as a storehouse of encounters and stories.