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Polaris - Surface Dialogues (fully booked)

Performance-Projekt with Angelo Petracca

We will look for a superficial movement. We will look for that mechanical condition that generates instinctive poetic actions.
I’m interested in finding out how to dissociate from imaginative practice in order to find devices that move us in space in lightness and harmony. Superficial as the surface of one’s body, the epidermis, the only part of us visible and that actually acts. Our aim will be to refuse to "feel", willing to just "do".
How to educate the body to listen to the intuition and accept its exhaustion? How to inhibit any narrative and decorative will while maintaining a performative state?
During the creative process we will discover how to use objects of different size, weight and material in order to convey perpetual movements functional to their use that will place our bodies in a mechanical, playful and without judgment condition. POLARIS is a research project about which transmission and composition methods can echo today's performance and human needs and how to translate them in a poetic community performance

Fee: 190 € / red: 170 € / professional dancers: 150 € | Application for the project: mueller@tanzfabrik-berlin.de

Additionally you can join the contemporary class: 26.10.-16.12.2020 | Mon & Wed 18:10-19:40

I call my class Rhythmic Volumes Practice and like to define my work holographic, which produces a three-dimensional effect, iridescent, with mobile and shifting reflections.
My class is based on improvisation tools starting with a strong connection with the spine and how the perception of it leads and gives birth to movement. Where is it born, how is it born and where does the gesture end? A constantly evolving investigation that develops by questioning itself how muscles reacts to impulses, if they can create any of them and how are these transmitted to the affected limbs and to the whole body, making the movement perceptible to the human eye. I utilize what RHYTMH and VOLUME mean to me as parameters to challenge the dancers through the dynamic combination of those. An act of pure honesty in order to discover the functional movement, indispensable and strictly consequent to the state/action in which the body is placed.
My research looks for a continuous evolution of movement and aims to apply the practice to moments of meticulously precise, geometric composition, logical writing alternating them with states of total openness, research and listening. I invite the "intelligent body" to live the research with extreme precision and clarity empowering empathetic skills.

Fee: Single class 12€, 10x card 110€

Angelo Petracca

Born in Bari and based in Berlin, starts studying ballet and contemporary dance in his own city before moving to Rome where he deepened the Cunningham technique with D. Verga, B. Ogan and T. Caley, former dancers The Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He dances with the company ATON DinoVergaDanza from 2007 until 2009. Then he starts his research about body languages and improvisation techniques with Virgilio Sieni, Theo Clinkard, Michele Di Stefano, Keren Rosenberg and develops performance art skills with Alessandro Sciarroni and joining the vocal chorus of Edipo Re by Chiara Guidi/Societas. He dances for the companies Altradanza from Bari, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Menhir/Giulio De Leo, Interno5 (Tudisco, Sicca), Nexus/Simona Bertozzi, Le Supplici/Fabrizio Favale, Gruppo WOW/DanteAntonelli, Matan Zamir and Gal Naor/The progressive wave and DAGADA Dance Company/Karolin Stächele. He wins, in a duet with O. Izzo, the prize for young choreographers DNAppunti Coreografici and is selected for Vetrina della Giovane Danza d'Autore 2017 with Studio sulla purezza. In 2019 he wins residency calls of Trac-Theatre residency center of Puglia and NAOcrea/Ariella Vidach with his new work
IFIGENIA (Studio sulla rinuncia) produced by Interno5. He holds workshops about improvisation tools and compositions in dance schools and professional programs like Opificio in Movimento, Leipziger Tanztheater, DOCK11 and EDEN Studios in Berlin.
26.10.- 16.12.2020
Showing: 16.12.2020 / 21:00
Registration for the project: mueller@tanzfabrik-berlin.de
Phone 030.786 58 61 

starts 26.10.