URBANATIX HOME – Short version

"URBANATIX Home" is the first movie from the celebrated Urban Arts stage show URBANATIX, which thrills 20,000 visitors each year at the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum. After the pandemic-related cancellation of the live shows in 2020, the 70-strong creative and artistic crew around director and mastermind Christian Eggert created a cinematic homage to the home of URBANATIX. The term "home" is not a rigid setting and can not only be applied to the place a person is born into. It also develops out of the active context of life and in a creative process of confrontation with the lifeworld and cultural environment and can therefore be understood more as a "possibility of life" than as a "proof of origin". In the film "URBANATIX Home", it is precisely this aspect of the concept of home that was brought into focus: The main protagonist of the film (the Zimbabwean-born dancer Takudzwa Madaka) lands rather by chance in one of Bochum's suburbs and, in the course of the film, becomes more and more deeply connected to the place where he has just arrived through the intensity of human encounters, through the creative exchange with like-minded people and the young diversity of perspective he experiences through getting to know different communities. He experiences young artists, dancers, parkour runners and freerunners, tricking specialists, bike acrobats and musicians who make their urban environment their own together with creativity, passion and joie de vivre and use it as a source of inspiration for their own artistic work. Whether the Schauspielhaus, Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, Anneliese-Brost-Musikforum, hairdresser, kiosk or music club, Bermuda Triangle, Ruhr University, Mark 51°7, city hall, industrial wasteland, colliery gallery, architectural landmark, public green space or "hidden place" - with URBANATIX "Home" the whole of Bochum becomes a stage and a field of experimentation for the exuberant creativity of the URBANATIX Cast, which, following its inner beat, understands the urban environment as a space for development and possibility. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)