VANITY, DESIRE, HATE, FEAR, LOVE – the dancer Dore Hoyer put these emotions at the center of her solo dance Afectos Humanos in 1961. An important source of inspiration was the philosopher Baruch de Spinoza's theory of affects. A good half a century later, the Compagnie Fredeweß goes in search of clues and traces the ideas of the modern dance pioneer. With Search for Traces: Afectos Humanos they create a dance evening for five dancers of different ages.

To the atmospheric sounds that Jules Clockwerk developed for each individual scene, the dancers trace the physical striving of emotions. They quote succinct motifs from Hoyer's choreography and combine them with their own movement language. As a group of five, three or even alone, they discover fragments of possibilities and give each affect an unmistakable expression.