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Tanzfabrik, Theaterhaus Mitte
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Bernardo De Almeida, Berghain Team (Kirschan, Andrรฉ, Norbert), Filipe Serro, Kule, Dock11, Asier Solana
๐ฆ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.
How does your body feel today? In this time of velocity and violence, choreographer and performer Andrรฉ Uerba explores intimacy as a practice of being together, along with seven performers and a musician. This work plays with the boundaries between sharing and withdrawing, movement and stillness, vulnerability and exposure.
The performers structure their encounter through a slow pace, propelling their bodies to attune, sink and merge together, refining their present moment. The desire to make hidden things visible is unfolded by their intimate gestures. Collectively they turn their gaze to inner landscapes where slowness and touch become a main practice.
Andrรฉ Uerba began his research on rehearsing intimacy during the process of โBurn Timeโ (2018) and continued through โFire Starterโ (2019/20), โInviting Moments of Stillnessโ and โA hole the size of your touchโ (2021). โรffective Choreographyโ marks a new chapter in the research and was reinforced by his training in bodywork by the Institute for Somatic Learning, Sexuality and Bodywork (ISB Berlin).
๐ฆ๐๐ก๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ก๐๐ฆ are often linked to the external genitalia in a sexualizing way. But feelings, emotions, memories and wounds also rotate in the body as embodied traces of human coexistence in societies characterized by violent power relations. As if locked in roller suitcases, these affects are often carelessly pushed through everyday life. Andrรฉ Uerbaโs รffective Choreography traces these embodied and perhaps confused transitions and brings them to light in a processual interplay between social interaction and introspection.
Janine Muckermann
Photos: Alicja Hoppel & Video Stills: QuietCityFilms (Svea Immel, Paul Holdsworth)
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English Theater, 10th Expo Festival (Berlin, Germany)
Dance House Lefkosia, "On Bodies Festival" (Nicosia, Cyprus)
La Caldera / Grec Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
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Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, De Studio (Antwerp, Belgium)
Halle am Berghain (Berlin, Germany)
Tanzbiennale Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)