Tanzfabrik
Berlin
School
School

25.07.2022—29.07.2022

Grief is a Part of the Dance

Workshop
with Makisig Akin
In the frame of Sommer Tanz 2022
Registration
Photo: Tim Richards
Venue:
Kreuzberg 1
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Dates:
Info:
Open
In English
Price: 200/170*
*Early bird until 07.07.2022

Description

We will practice being mindful of grief as a somatic experience. How do we physicalize and allow our body to release and give shape to it until it feels like it has matter, both in quality and in dignity? How touch becomes an integral part of this "mattering". How can it be moved by the people around us? We go from Me to I to We and back again. We will investigate the moving quality of grief and joy, how they support and enrich each other. What is the role of verbal and written language? We, together, will rest in the ashes of the many deaths of things we are grieving from, to allow the moving quality of grief to bring us back to life.
Biographies

Makisig Akin

I am a queer, transgender Filipino choreographer. I was raised in the Philippines and am currently based in Berlin. My work focuses on the recognition of intersectional identities, reconnecting with my ancestry, and decentralizing Western ideologies in dance making. I co-founded The Love Makers Company, a project-based dance company, with Anya Cloud. I am also a co-founder with Nara Virgens of the Emerging Change Tanzfestival, a dance festival featuring and curating QTBIPoC artists and their collaborators. www.makisigakin.com