“Running Fast to Get Nowhere”: Five Weeks of Creation for Jenny Mezile in Berlin

Ivorian choreographer Jenny Mezile completed a five-week creative residency at Berlin’s Spandau Citadel with director Carlos Manuel, who is of Angolan and Brazilian origin. She led 19 German performers in “Running Fast to Get Nowhere,” a dance-theatre work shaped by Ivorian music, movement and rhythms. Staged around a treadmill, the dancers’ exhausting, repetitive motion questions the contemporary search for meaning and dependence on mobile phones. The production premiered at the Citadel from October 16 to 24, 2026, and was warmly received.