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19. April  CONGRESSPROGRAM
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3.-30.4.2006 17153
Photo: Benno Voorhamtanz hoch zwei: Workshops & Performances
The Tanzfabrik Berlin will be holding a series of intensive workshop on various dance and body as well as performance techniques under the title “tanz hoch zwei” from the 3rd to 10th of April. For the first time in this series, well-known international choreographers giving workshops especially for professionals. With this program the Tanzfabrik Berlin continues the dialogue between workshop participants, dancers, choreographers and audience.
During the Dance Congress the artist duo deufert + plischke/frankfurter küche will give a workshop from April 17th to 21st and show the video-audio performance “Directory – in be twin” on two evenings at the Tanzfabrik Berlin.
“Directory – in be twin”, 22. April, 21:30 + 23. April, 18:00
Tanzfabrik Berlin
Möckernstr. 68, 10965 Berlin
Information and tickets: +49 (0)30 786 58 61
schule@tanzfabrik-berlin.de
www.tanzfabrik-berllin.de
Overview
Training for Professionals
April 3-7, 10-11.30 am
Articulating Disorientation Jeremy Wade (New York)
Performances
April 8/9, 8.30 pm
Jeremy Wade Glory / Fiction
April 15/16, 8.30 pm
Susanne Martin Julio
April 22, 09.30 pm /April 23, 6:00 pm
frankfurter küche Directory – in be twin
April 29/30, 8.30 pm Performance
Daniel Lepkoff Physical Dialogues in Movement
Workshops
April 17-21
frankfurter küche (Leipzig) Movement as an Alter ego
April 24-28
Daniel Lepkoff (New York) Physical Dialogues
further Workshops
April 10-14 Body-Mind Centering Walburga Glatz | Laban Bwegungsstudien Eva Blaschke | Release Technique Jessica Lööf | Modern Jazz Marc Basiner | Voice Work Petra Bogdahn
Modern Jean-Hugues Assohoto | Bharatanatyam & Contemporary Shamita Ray
April 17-21 African Dance Elsa Wolliaston | Ballett Norman Douglas | Pilates & Movement Awareness Ami Garmon | Contact-Impro-Performance Susanne Martin | Funky Street Jazz Jay | Yoga & Energy Flow Daniel Orlansky
April 8/9 Sa/Sun 8.30 pm Performance
Jeremy Wade (New York) Glory / Fiction
Direction/Dance/Costumes Jeremy Wade Glory in Kollaboration with Jessica Hill Musik Loren Dempster Licht Jonathan Belcher
“Wade works himself into a high-intensity marathon. It's like watching a willed recreation of a serious neuromuscular disorder, a smothered physical howl.“
The Village Voice
After at DTW in New York and before moving on to the Spring Dance Dialogue in Utrecht, choreographer Jeremy Wades stops in Berlin to show his enigmatic new work for the very first time in Germany.
Glory is a study of the dynamics of prostration and the body’s relationship to an untenable situation. A slow progression of almost larval forms emerging out of darkness, appearing more sculptural than figural. In an effort to elude representation, to break free from dance’s imperative to represent, the dancers stay close to the ground and close to immobility. Their bodies are not completely legible; they approach abstraction as they move in unsettling ways, slowly, awkwardly, and uncomfortably. Their infectious attraction to each other and their struggle to stay connected and to escape from the heavy materiality of the stage is unsettling.
Fiction is a solo with music by Loren Dempster that explores the limits of gesture, the nausea of over-saturation, the destruction of identity and the potential of a phantasmagoric body.
Fiction was originally commissioned by the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning Program of Dance Theater Workshop with funds from the Jerome Foundation of St. Paul, MN.
April 3-7 Workshop
Jeremy Wade Articulating Disorientation - Improvisation/Exploration
“The other refers to that which a person considers to be entirely unrelated to their own concept of self-identity.” (Wikipedia) Beginning with a daily exploration of magnifying ones awareness to the proximity of impulse, through the use of Authentic Movement. We will experiment with a series of scores that deconstruct the impulse and make use of other/accident/stumble/monstrosity. As we build confidence in various disorientated bodies we can then layer them. Thus creating super combinations of scores that move towards a further understanding of the body’s relationship to an untenable position.
Jeremy Wade: choreographer, dancer and teacher, diploma in dance at School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam. He resides at Chez Bushwick, a live/work loft for the performing arts in Brooklyn, NY. His pieces have been presented in theaters, galleries, nightclubs and lofts. Wade has performed with international choreographers Gonnie Heggen, Katie Duck, David Zambrano, a.o. He collaborated with New York choreographers Stanley Love, Maria Hassabi, Michael Portony and Chameki/Lerner and also worked with dramaturge Andre Lepecki at the Transformes Festival, CND in Paris. 2003 artist in resident at Movement Research. He teaches improvisation/exploration classes and workshops at Movement Research New York and Chez Bushwick. Current projects: Twilight, a 72-hour durational performance installation; Glory/Fiction, presented at Dance Theatre Workshop, N.Y. (February 06), Spring Dance Preview, Netherlands (April 06).
15./16.3. 8.30 am
Susanne Martin (Berlin) Julio
Konzept Susanne Martin mit Eliane Hutmacher, Susanne Martin, Olaf Stuve
Film Andrea Keiz, Fotos AnnA Stein
The two loveable and gripping as well as comical character studies on male and female desire and covetouness – “Herr K. Müh“ (2003) and “Claudia“ (2004) – have now expanded to fill a full evening. We are grateful to Klaus and Claudia for once again taking the time to share their experiences and dance enthusiasm with us and are expectantly looking forward to their new artistic comrades to hopefully reveal to us through song, dance, lecture, photos and film new horizons of longing, ageing and other processes.
The CD-signing with Mr. Inglesias will sadly have to be cancelled and we would like to refer you for information and contact to www.juliomusic.com
“Julio” is a Tanzfabrik co-production, funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Berlin and the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.
April 22, 09.30 pm + April 23, 6:00 pm Performances
frankfurter küche (Leipzig) Directory - in be twin
Performance deufert + plischke/frankfurter kueche Stimme Gillian Carson (GB/NO), Kaethe Fine (USA), Martin Hargreaves (GB)
"We stood in front of our memories like glasses of grandmothers' preserves. An enormous number of glasses, waiting to be opened during a long and harsh winter. When we opened them we discovered that some of them had gone bad: memories of hurt, desire, pardon, despair, promise, self conflict without solution. There is a sense of beauty in the disorder of what has gone moldy. The mess of the mold resembles the chaos of melancholy. In our fiction it can even turn into a planet, a body, a plant. What were in the glasses are reminders of stories that make up our lives. They become dead objects in our private museum: show and tell our life as a geology of the dead." (deufert + plischke: directory)
deufert + plischke share work and life as an artist twin. In 2002 they were asked to give a lecture on their work. Due to the fact that their work is a process where the boundaries between work and life are blurred it was impossible to prepare a lecture "about" or "on" their work but rather to create a "work with work". "Directory - europe endless" is the first of their directories. It talks about the time before the artist twin got together, about the possibilities of sharing the same protocol, living an incestuous relationship, about the risks embedded in work and life. "Directory - songs of love and war" is the continuation in this knitted protocol. Now the artist twin brings both their first directories together as a third: Directory - in be twin.
April 17-21 Workshop
deufert + plischke frankfurter küche Movement as an Alter Ego
a workshop by deufert + plischke in German and English
I tell you my memories and receive your. And via movement we enter into a game of formulation and reformulation. Texts, movements, images, ideas are constantly passed on so that formulation appears as a critical process leading to small project drafts to be worked out by every participant individually with constant feedback from all the others.
When you enter a studio, a school or whatever is considered a social frame, the world doesn't wait outside the doors. Life is simultaneously going on inside and outside these fictious doors. In all our movements and thoughts something communicates and is communicated that is based on power mechanisms and organized via exclusion, constraint and order.
During this workshop we offer you an everyday work situation. A situation that is not meant to become everyday-like. We want you to become aware of the difference of doing something and acting as if you are doing something. This doing ‘as if’ quickly inscribes itself in all movements and thoughts and even if nobody else recognizes this ‘as if’, you will later come to recognize it as an irretrievable loss.
When we say "everyday situation", we mean that we are trying to deal with the situation as it is and will become. We prefer not to call ourselves your teachers because this already describes a hegemonic setting, presets certain forms of expectations, predetermines relations of activity and passivity, of doing and undoing.
April 29/30 Performance
Daniel Lepkoff (New York) Physical Dialogue in Performance
Choreografie/Tanz Tom Geilich, Daniel Lepkoff, Sarah Menger, Sakura Shimada, Katrien van Aerschot
This aim of this project is to create a performance designed to bring the dance audience "inside" of my work with spontaneous composition. Over the years of movement research, examining the functioning of the body and how the mind and body work together to compose our movement, I have cultivated an ensemble structure in which participants, acting both as observers and dancers, engage in a physical communication with each other and the architecture of their immediate environment, to create an ongoing spontaneous composition.
This work has its roots in early work with Steve Paxton creating and defining the practice of Contact Improvisation and my work with Mary Fulkerson in the early explorations of developmental movement and anatomical release technique.
What has excited me during these in-process studio sessions is to witness the spontaneous manifestation of images in time and space, with a beginning, middle, and end; on the canvas of a "stage" of "space" that give voice to an essential physical communication freed from the stylized conventions of presentation I often see on stage. I have been both educated and inspired during these sessions through experiencing the shape of events in time and space that communicate something I can feel and understand but could not have created or predicted myself.
For this project I have invited people who have followed my workshops for several years and who have realized their own independent interest in my approach. We have planned a combination of public workshops, intensive rehearsal/practice sessions and three or four public performances, two in Berlin at Tanzfabrik and one or two in a performance space in Köln.
The question I am asking myself is: how can we design a simply performance format that will help orient the audience to the nature of my work, relax their expectations, awaken their senses, and support their own native physical intelligence as they participate as active observers?
April 24-28 Workshop
Daniel Lepkoff Physical Dialogues Movement Awareness Practices for Improvisation and Performance
This workshop examines dancing as a finely tuned physical dialogue with the environment and explores the form and composition of this spontaneous interaction. The roots of this work are in everyday movement, the functioning of the body, and the becoming of how the mind and body work together to compose movement. Students will explore how vision and gravity each bring a fresh understanding of time and space and a sense of "the space" as a part of the body. We use these physical "tuning" techniques as a base of a shared language that supports an ensemble laboratory of creating spontaneous compositions.
Daniel Lepkoff’s work is focused on everyday movement, the functioning of the body, how we navigate physically and how the mind and the body work together to compose our movement. He is one of the founders of Movement Research in NYC. He has taught and performed at dance centers and schools worldwide, including: The Trisha Brown Studios; NYC; The American Dance Festival; PARTS in Brussels; CNDO, Arnhem; Tanzfabrik, Berlin; Chisenhale Dance Space, London; Moving Arts, Cologne; Bewegungs Art, Freiburg; as well as in Italy, Russia, Japan, Hungary, Slovakia, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela.
Tanzfabrik Berlin Möckernstr.68, 10965 Berlin-Kreuzberg Tickethotline: +49 (0)30 7865861, produktions@tanzfabrik-berlin.de
