We’re in it for the money, honey: that dirty ol’ flipside of life in the limelight. Two years after its infamous debut, the mudwrestling tournament that took the contemporary dance world by storm is back with Dirt: An Apparatus. With infallible referee Kareth Kracken’ Bonez as your hostess-with-the-mostest, the heat is ON amongst the baddest contemporary dance artists this city has to offer (as well as anyone else who loves getting down and dirty), all ready to slip, slide, and grapple their way to never-ending fame, accolades from celebrity judges, and a chance at paydirt. Audience members are invited to put their money where their applause is in a slightly soiled spin on participatory performance: we guarantee that art has never been so filthy.
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Katharina Greimel, Debanshi Shah, Diethild Meier, Emma Tricard, Stine Frandsen, Liselotte Singer, Sunayana Shetty, Max Stelzl, Nikola Pieper and the Internet
09 SEP 2015 / 19:00 / CYBORGS HERITAGE // Veem House for Performance / Amsterdam
CYBORG’S HERITAGE is an ongoing performative research by Burkhard Körner and Marc Philipp Gabriel. Both of us have backgrounds in classical music and are recent graduates from experimental choreography schools (SNDO Amsterdam / HZT Berlin).
The idea for CYBORG’S HERITAGE grew out of an immense curiosity for what would happen if the specific modes and qualities of traditional western music making and the infinite possibilities and reflective processes of contemporary performance making start to inform each other: singing baroque music as part of a dance performance. What seems simple and obvious at first has undergone a crucial development that goes deeper than the superficial confrontation of both worlds. We are insisting on revealing the concepts, sub-layers, emotions, codes, conventions, taboos, patterns, mechanisms, social implications and relationships of each world, in order to explore what these inner layers can contribute to each other.
Starting from dissecting a vocal duet by Claudio Monteverdi and exploring physical approaches derived from partnering and contact improvisation, combined with pixelated full body suits, we began to summon a post-human digital body with permeable borders and fading individualities. We started exploring approaches derived from partnering and contact improvisation (in particular the symmetry practice of Jess Curtis and Maria F. Scaroni). Playing with modes of perception, flatness and universality on the visual level, the vocal level operates with individual timbres, social communication and emotional exchange between the two performers and the audience, moving on a fine line between comedy and seriousness.
We are working on the physicality of a post-human body, a body that becomes object, that loses individuality and is seemingly entangled with the world of other beings. An incomplete organism. A post-identity-body that is yet pierced by its vocal heritage.
THANKS TO Johanna Peine, Emma Tricard, Petar Sarjanovic, Graziella Gamonal, Jija Sohn, Lisa Skwirblies, Oneka von Schrader, Bussana Vecchia, Maria F. Scaroni and Jess Curtis
photo: Linea Kornum Rask
B: It will be our first creation after graduating from choreography
M: It’s not fitting in.
B: What do you need to know?
M: It is digging into our togetherness.
B: Can you see the thing which is so inherent for us?
M: It will be the non-human sounding of a butterfly.
B: What if a tone can tell more than a movement?
M: It is floating in delirium.
B: I think this is a piece which wants to bridge what seems to be opposite.
M: It is an urban dirty queer ritual club.
B: Is this a human drama or an expression of contemporaneity?
M: It is saying yes.
B: It is an encounter of two Germans who are not where they come from.
M: It is a caterpillar looking for transformation.
B: It wants to channel our desire for music into contemporary performance.
Wir lieben den Monat. Wir werden ihn verschlingen mit Haut und Haar. Wir werden dazu tanzen. Wir werden feiern, Stücke zeigen, Bäume pflanzen – und wir laden euch herzlich ein, dabei zu sein! Haltet euch auf dem Laufenden und eure Kalender vom 7. bis zum 24. April frei. Genauere Informationen über Performances, Vorträge, Workshops und mehr in Kürze. Bringt eure Liebsten mit!
We love the month. We’ll eat it up in one piece. We’ll dance to it. We’ll celebrate, we’ll show, we’ll make things grow – and we welcome you to join us! So stay tuned and keep your schedules free from the 7th to the 24th of April. Information about performances, lectures, workshops and more coming up. Bring your neighbours, lovers, friends!
SHAVE THAT GUMMI is an international choreographic research that unleashes between innumerable poles of difference.
How can we breathe under all the highly charged misconceptions that have been cast onto us in past and present times? Coming from two different continents, we are still chewing on the same piece of gum. F*ck. Being labelled before birth, we strive to move away from preconceived identities, longing for situations that are re-negotiated in every moment. Two bodies flying through their extremities, slurping, spitting, slicing, deflecting and avoiding one another – breathing in as two and exhaling as one.
SHAVE THAT GUMMI is a dance performance duet moving between ornamenting and defacing the human body as an object. A precarious duet of counter-colonialization. A dual player game, a pas-de-deux, a dog fight, a futuristic binary. Two opposites migrating into each other’s territories. SHAVE THAT GUMMI is pulling the audience into a game of projections, stripping multiple layers of conformity off the performing body.
SHAVE THAT GUMMI is the outcome of Kieron Jina (South Africa), Marc Philipp Gabriel (Germany) and Yogin Sullaphen (South Africa) working in a 4 week artistic research period at University of Johannesburg Arts & Culture Centre.
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Katharina Greimel, Debanshi Shah, Diethild Meier, Emma Tricard, Stine Frandsen, Liselotte Singer, Sunayana Shetty, Max Stelzl, Nikola Pieper and the Internet
Eine choreografierte Klang-Reise durch das Aufbau Haus am Moritzplatz. A choreographic sound walk through the Aufbau Haus building on Moritzplatz.
ORBIS TERTIUS – ist eine „Kunst der Anordnung“ einer Konspiration von Künstlern unter Leitung von Matteo Marziano Graziano (Choreograf/Filmemacher) und frei inspiriert durch die Kurzgeschichte: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius vom argentinischen Schriftsteller Jorge Luis Borges. Du wirst auf eine Reise durch das Aufbau-Haus am Moritzplatz geschickt. Von Nischen im Fundament des Hauses bis hoch über den Wolken betrittst du unterschiedliche Welten, die sich in der besonderen Architektur des Hauses eingenistet haben. Figuren, die aus dem Dunkel treten und in den Rissen der Wände verschwinden. Dort lösen sich die Regeln von Logik und Geometrie auf. Das Fluide wird scharfgestellt. Tanz trifft Baukunst, Töne werden Konstruktion. Deine Persönlichkeit ist kein Zustand, sondern Handeln.
In seinen etwas vertrackten Fiktionen, Über die Strenge der Wissenschaft schildert Jorge Luis Borges die kartographische Vermessung eines Gebietes, die, auf der Suche nach größtmöglicher Genauigkeit, zu immer größeren Karten führt, welche auch die kleinsten Details enthalten sollten. Dennoch bleiben aber auf jeder Karte Lücken, Restzonen des Verfügbaren, in denen die Wirklichkeit gegen ihre völlige Übertragung in die kartierte Fläche verweigert. Vor diesem Fakt gestellt bleibt einen Pfad zu gehen, sich seinen eigenen Pfad/Karte durch das Dickicht der Räumlichkeiten zu zeichnen oder zu bahnen.
Mit und von: Matteo Marziano Graziano, Adela Bravo Sauras, Benedetta Baiocchi, Laurent Pellissier, Francesco Cavaliere, Danielle Fagen, Johannes Weiss, Hannes Oppermann, Marc Philipp Gabriel, TanzZeit-Jugendcompany, Juan Benito Corres, Tarren Johnson, Judith Seither, Andrea Parolin und viele weiteren.
Bühne: Adela Bravo Sauras Art Direction: Laurent Pellissier Kostüm: Benedetta Baiocchi Sound: Francesco Cavaliere, Johannes Weiss Produktionsleitung: Danielle Fagen Dramaturgie: Hannes Oppermann
Konzept und Choreografie: Matteo Graziano * CASA MARZIANO
Unterstützt von der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von: TAK Theater am Aufbau Haus, Modulor Material Total, couturereal, Just Music, PRINCE CHARLES, Tuschkasten e.V., Aufbau Haus.
Mi 02.07.2014 | 21:30 Uhr
Do 03.07.2014 | 21:30 Uhr
TAK Theater im Aufbau Haus * Prinzenstrasse 85 F * Berlin Kreuzberg
13 – 18 DEC 2021 / SALTO & X Fastidiosa // IMARP – Mostra Internacional de Dança – Imagens em Movimento – Vídeo Dança Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil /
