Allongé
Performance Video by July Weber
In the frame of Open Spaces – Making It Happen #1
You can find a trailer for the performance here.
An interview with Julian Weber you can find here.
In “Allongé” Julian Weber continues his interdisciplinary approach, based on an examination of Constantin Brânçusi’s sculptural work in collaboration with a ballet dancer and a pole dancer. Brânçusi’s oeuvre and his pioneering formal and contextual approaches serve as a starting point for the development of a stage set which is investigated for its performative and choreographic potential. Through the collision of the different disciplines and dance styles, both opposites and parallels of these techniques are examined, as well as a potential entanglement of the styles. Further "Allongé" explores the possibilities of emancipation from defined role models and subject/object attributions through a contemporary perspective on tradition and handicraft.
An interview with Julian Weber you can find here.
In “Allongé” Julian Weber continues his interdisciplinary approach, based on an examination of Constantin Brânçusi’s sculptural work in collaboration with a ballet dancer and a pole dancer. Brânçusi’s oeuvre and his pioneering formal and contextual approaches serve as a starting point for the development of a stage set which is investigated for its performative and choreographic potential. Through the collision of the different disciplines and dance styles, both opposites and parallels of these techniques are examined, as well as a potential entanglement of the styles. Further "Allongé" explores the possibilities of emancipation from defined role models and subject/object attributions through a contemporary perspective on tradition and handicraft.
July Weber
July Weber (*1986, DE, all pronouns) is a choreographer*, dancer*, curator* and stage designer*. Weber studied sculpture at the HBK Braunschweig and the Academy of Arts Vienna, as well as choreography at the HZT Berlin and at the Theaterschool in Amsterdam. Over the last 15 years Weber has developed his own artistic signature, which explores the areas of friction between image, body and material for their choreographic potential. Weber won the Berlin Art Prize in 2015, was invited to the 2022 Dance Platform and has received various residencies and scholarships over the years. Weber founded NEW FEARS - a gallery for performance and transdisciplinarity and won the 2023 prize for project spaces in Berlin.
Link to the performance video here, then continuously available until Sunday evening 22:00.
Choreography, Set design: Julian Weber | Dance: Shade Théret, György Jellinek | Music: Evelyn Saylor | Light: Annegret Schalke | Costume: Don Aretino | Production: Juan Gabriel Harcha
Funded by Berliner Senat, Tanzfabrik Berlin
Funded by Berliner Senat, Tanzfabrik Berlin