Samir Akika’s production ›Me&myMum‹ opens, in true independent film style, to David Bowie’s song ›Heroes‹. What follows is a chaotic, ingenious mishmash of mother images. ›Me&myMum‹ is the second part of a trilogy about growing up. Following his internationally successful production, ›Extended Teenage Era‹, Akika now looks with humour, passion and a sure feeling for life’s peculiarities, at the complex relationship between mother and child.  The work plays radically with clichés and stereotypes – gives solid ground to strong emotions. Facing up offensively to critical confrontation with arguably one of the most formative of all human relationships, the performers offer us – in sometimes absurd and grotesque episodes – an insight into their own personal histories.

›Me&myMum‹ is dedicated to Akika’s mentor and the ›mother‹ of German dance theatre, Pina Bausch.

Samir Akika is a choreographer, director, curator, and producer. After starting dancing at a relatively late age, he studied at the Folkwang Academy in Essen. Since then, he works as a freelance dancer and choreographer and is now closely associated with the Theater im Pumpenhaus in Munster. Alongside his highly regarded stage productions for adults, he also realizes projects worldwide with young people in collaboration with, amongst others, the Goethe- Institut.

In 2009 he was awarded a three year funding grant for outstanding independent dance artists in NRW (Spitzenförderung) and in the same year, founded ›Unusual Symptoms‹ with his long-term production partner Alexandra Morales.