EDITION 2012
OFFenes BERLIN
DESCRIPTIONS
FIRE IS RAGING IN YOUR HAIR
"Where now? Who now? When now? Unquestioning. I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on. Can it be that one day, off it goes on, that one day I simply stayed in, in where, instead of going out, in the old way, out to spend day and night as far away as possible, wasn't far."
[The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett]
"You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair"
Taisen Deshimaru.
A contemporary human is in a constant movement: not limited by the space, nor time, he freely mores between reality and virtual world. This state of crack between "here and now" and "not-here" became the subject of this spectacle.
How can one find self in a incessant flow of stimuli and information? Can one find rest and embedding in a neverending movement?
A short promenade is the only stable element of the spectacle, around which a movements is built. Two basic activity fields: the body moving in space-time and the work with association (imagination, dreams and shamanism) are the starting point for the authors' attempt to understand: how to remain stable despite being involved in the ever changing reality.
Anna Nowicka, a dancer, choreographer, teacher and psychologist, graduate of Warsaw University and Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, contemporary dance instructor. She took part in many spectacles in Poland and abroad, she also continuously develops her own pieces. As one of the most important experiences she considers working with Mala Kline. In 2008/2009 she participated in Tomi Janezic's programme for performers in Slovenia and gave guests performances with En-Knap Group. She cooperates with Dragana Alfirević. In 2011 she received DAAD award and Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes scholarship. In June of 2012 she is going to receive a master degree in choreography at HZT/Ernst-Busch in Berlin.
Weronika Pelczyńska, graduate from SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and the Department of Production Engeneering at Technical University of Warsaw. In 2008/2009 as a member of Bodhi Project group she performed in Austria, Germany, Italy and Poland, and co-operated with: M. Kejzar, J. Nelson, V. Justice, R. Hayden, E. Braun, T. Williams and S. Sandroni. She gained her stage experiences working over 3 years for Studio Buffo Theatre and Mufmi Dance Theatre. In 2003 she won forst prize at European Championships of disco dance formations, performing with a group Volt. She also acted in a few television productions. Since 2009 she co-works with Stephanie Thiersch Mouvoir in Cologne and with Johannes Wieland's group in Kassel. From February 2010 she creates choreography and stage movement for theatrical plays and films. In 2011 she co-worked with Davis Freeman, Jozef Fruck and Evangelia Kapetanea. Her first solo piece was produced by Komuna Warszawa, and "Fire is raging in your hair"is her second solo, co-created with Anna Nowicka.
concept and choreography: Anna Nowicka
performance: Weronika Pelczyńska
music: Klaus Janek
light: direction Sandra Blatterer
dramaturgy support: dr Christiane Berger
production: Tanztage Berlin, with support of Art Stations Foundation (Poznań), Polish Institute in Berlin and HZT (Berlin)
opening night: 14th January 2012 Tanztage Festival Berlin 2012
MICA-MOCA
Berlin art revelation of 2011, much discussed by the artistic off-scene of Europe. Within 5 months, from May till October, a team of several people, practically with no money, organized 500 events, involved 2000 artists and gathered dozens of thousands of guests and participants.
'We found ourselves in the right place at the right time' said Christopher Knoch, one of the leaders of the project, when giving his personal account of the unbelievable history during his visit in Kana. Soon after the Center was taken over by MICAMOCA artists who came straight from Norwich Festival in England to bring to us the unique MICAMOCA atmosphere. A phone-opera, puppet theatre without puppets, dance solo and an intimate encounter with an Italian actor in the attic - were only some of what one could experience. It is really worth it to find oneself in the center of MICAMOCA events.
ONE IS ALMOST NEVER
Elpida Orfanidou (1981) studied Dance in Athens, Arnhem, Montpellier and London. She also completed her Piano study and her Pharmacy Degree in Athens. Her dance studies abroad were funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and in 2009 she received the DanceWEB Scholarship at Impulstanz Festival in Vienna.
One is almost never is a 'draft composition' in which exotic sounds, atmospheric dances and ordinary objects are employed into a mysteriously transparent situation between audience and performer.
STRANGERS IN A SONG
Brina Stinehelfer / Per Aspera Productions
Opera director, Sibylle Polster, and mezzo-soprano, Dylan Bandy, present Strangers in a Song, an interactive operatic performance. The menu rests by a phone in a room that invites listeners into a new world. Call a singer and choose from the menu the concert of your fantasty. Enjoy a fleeting moment of intimacy with an anonymous opera singer. And while some theatergoers participate, others become voyeurs into a short-lived rendezvous between two strangers.
DIE WELT DREHT WEITER / THE WORLD KEEPS TURNING ON
Theatreproject with animated objects
Our protagonist founds himself lonely, leftbehind, traumatised. Now he is prisoned into this world. Locked-in once, there won't be any emergency exit. It's an ill-making cell. Objects will be the dialogue partners. They'll reflect his perception and take over his emotions. Relations will be dependency, will lead towards psychosis. The last walk is painful. We tell the story of a protagonist, who will only be visible by animating the objects surrounding him.
Animation: Christopher Schleiff
Lighting design: Johanna Seitz
Dramaturgy: Kirsten Ueberholz
Direction: Matthias Jochmann
HfS "Ernst Busch" Berlin, Institute for Puppetry
JLU Gieflen, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies
http://www.zahmundheiter.de/stuecke/dieweltdrehtweiter/
http://www.uni-giessen.de/theater/de/veranstaltungen/archiv/764
OLTRE IL REGNO inspired by Dino Buzzati
Within the limit of his own existence, the man sees his life consuming itself; by trying to cross that limit he tries to give a meaning to it... The story of a journey among memories and hopes, ambitions and failures and the steps marking the distance between those who remain and those who leave...
Written and performed by Carlo Loiudice
Music: Marta Collica
Set and light: Tony Martin
ROOF
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.
IT THINKS, IT RUSTLES ( ES GLAUBT - ES RAUSCHT)
Ingredients of the white noise are: everything and nothing. It is chaotic yet homogeneous, like a constant movement that seems motionless. Trembling and glimmering. White noise appears when the form vanishes, disclosing itself as a form. In "es glaubt, es rauscht" the musical theatre bruit! conducts an acoustic, visual and philosophical research in attempt to grasp the phenomenon of white noise. They experiment with rustles and hums and permanently balance between the meaning and the nonsense, presenting white noise as a source of bemusement and auditive sensitization that may become a way of liberation from the ubiquitous visual culture.
concept/ production: Julia Hundt, Karoline Kähler, Matthias Meyer, Marcus Thomas
The musical theatre bruit! consists of musicians, theatre and multimedia artists as well as the researchers experimenting on the space, sensuality and significant cultural and social phenomena. It is a collective of equal members, who can express themselves each in their own artistic language.
ANALOGUE AVATAR
Is it possible to travel instead of somebody else? Can one delegate somebody else in one's place on a trip? Can a flesh and blood person become an avatar of someone else, and that in the flesh-and-blood actual world? How would it be if someone else did things for us, which otherwise would have to be only realized in the virtual world?
Johanna is an analogue avatar travelling to Santiago de Chile. Her whole stay was composed of plans, wishes and aims of her clients. She documented each travel: recorded all conversations, took photos, kept the objects and brought them all back to Germany. The results of the journey will be presented during the performance and Johanna will attempt to answer the emerging questions: can one delegate not only the work but also pleasure? In such a case, who is the subject to the experience of it? How to transfer the representation of the experienced events back to their author? And what does it all has to do with theatre?...
Production: Benedikt Bernstorff, Johanna Castell, Johanna Gagern i Katharina Kellermann.
