29th September, 7 p.m. / admission 10 and 15 PLN / Kana Theatre
OFFENES BERLIN
ROOF - dance piece by Leyla Postalcioglu .
Program
SEPTEMBER 2012
OFFenes BERLIN PROJECT
"roof"
OFFenes Berlin means "an open/off Berlin" and aims to present what is en vogue in imaginative and full of humour capital city of contemporary independent art. The audience of Szczecin needs no longer travel to Berlin to see the best young artists, the winners of annual artistic festival 100Grad - now they will come to Szczecin!
The project is realised in co-operation with Hebbel am Ufer and Sophiensaele in Berlin, and financially supported by the Fund for German-Polish Co-operation (FWPN).
We live on the roofs which shelter us all together, which keep us close to each other, which sometime push us into the corners, which from time to time cover us and sometimes collapse on us. What if the balance between near and far cannot be achieved. What if the only intelligible thing is communication, the only thing audible is silence. Where do the unuttered and the unstated go? Will they be left to the lapse of time?
A story of two people trying to slow down while running, to get closer while moving apart. A roof above silence. A clock which is being tried to slow down and two people who have stopped.
'roof' received the Sophiensaele Jury award at the 100Grad Berlin Festival 2012
[".for creating a masterly narration of refined and universal emotions; for rendering visible and comprehensible the humanity's never-ending desire to overcome isolation and miscommunication; for developing a poetic and imaginative language which gradually owns the viewer; for managing to fill up a space - regardless of its size - with extraordinary intensity and intimacy using only two bodies and the silence" - Jury's verdict]
Concept / choreography: Leyla Postalcioglu
Performed by: Benjamin Block, Leyla Postalcioglu
Light design: Asier Solana Arce
Music: Antonio Máchin
Dramaturgical consultation: Carmen Mehnert
Leyla Postalcioglu (1981) was born in Istanbul. She studied dance at the Folkwang Art University in Essen, where she co-worked with Pina Bausch. In 2004-2010 she danced for the State Theatre in Kassel. She took part in the projects by Wu Kuo Chu, Johannes Wieland, Meg Stuart, Davis Freeman. In 2010 she moved to Berlin. 'roof' is her first full-length dance piece and the fifth one co-created with Ben Block.
