Tanzfabrik
Berlin
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Stage
Stage
Stage Kreuzberg 4
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin Stage
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2 Solos

Showing by Kirstie Simson, Jeremy Nelson
In the frame of Winter Tanz 2017/18

Kirstie Simson and Jeremy Nelson, two extraordinary dance artists and friends teach for the second time during the same period in Tanzfabrik's Winter Tanz workshops. Once again this year, they use this encounter to each share an improvised solo in an informal showing with their workshop participants and a general audience.

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Solo for my Mother by Kirstie Simson
This solo was created to honor my mother who passed away five years ago. When she died her spirit rose up to fly with the birds. This solo is my wish for all women to fly free.
Music: Antony and the Johnsons

Kirstie Simson

Kirstie Simson is renowned as an excellent teacher, a captivating performer and a leading light in the field of Dance Improvisation. For the past thirteen years she has been a tenured professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois. In August 2020 Kirstie returned to her home base in Wales with plans to continue sharing her work though with curtailed international travel. She is excited to be starting an involvement with the Black Mountains College, a local college where a curriculum of planet-centric education will be launched in 2021 for building a better future. www.kirstiesimson.com

Jeremy Nelson

Jeremy Nelson was a member of the Siobhan Davies & Dancers and Second Stride Dance companies in London, and Stephen Petronio Dance Company in New York. He has also danced in works by David Zambrano, Luis Lara Malvacías, and with improviser Kirstie Simson among others. He is the recipient of a NY Dance and performance Bessie Award for outstanding performance and a Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography. He was head of dance at the Danish National School of Performing Arts and is now Associate Professor in NYU Tisch department of dance. Over the past 35 plus years he has taught classes/workshops in over 35 countries at venues including Movement Research in NY, American Dance Festival, ImPulsTanz, P.A.R.T.S., and the Sasha Waltz Company among many others. He has presented his own choreography in New York and internationally and has been collaborating with Luis Lara Malvacías on a series of improvisational duets, performed in Amsterdam, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, and at Radial System in Berlin.