Performance Projects

This performance project wants to focus on the presence through the quality of our movement. We will use ideas developed from postmodern dance practice till today through release and improvisation research. In order to reach to an unity of intention and freedom. SKIN as a concept, will be a metaphor for our intuition, a layer of opacity that covers our body, but also a surface that defines volumes. It transmits perceptions, and drives us until the walls of the architectural SPACE/a physical perimeter. We will research the relation between body and structure, transition between different movement, and different ideas. Crossing a space/time, in which reality and abstraction will become our unique way of being here and now, in a condensation of past and future. Fee: 180 € / red: 160 € / professional dancers: 140 € | Application for the project: mueller@tanzfabrik-berlin.de Additionally you can join the contemporary class: It is a class based on Alwin Nikolais post body system, suitable for people in all stages of their dance development. The class includes elements of diverse techniques such as pilates, feldenkrais, body-mind centering, release and improvisation research. We develop a warm up and a mind/body awareness asking ourselves which qualities can we develop between time space and motion. Through dance we like to release and expand our range of tolerance and possibilities.  Mon & Wed 18:15-19:45 | Fee: For people joining the performance project: 110 € for the training period during the project / For everybody else: 10x card: 100 € / red.: 90 € / prof.: 75 €

The concept is simple: we practice beginnings and endings: when and how to enter, when and how to exit a time-space, and - not to underestimate : what to frame through these? What is it that happens in the middle between beginning and end? And in how far do all three causally effect each other? And then, sensed from a larger time-space perspective : what is before the beginning , what comes ( or even just starts) after each end? We are inspired by the music of Franz Schubert, which for us exposes the play of and with time in a most radical manner: endless melodies and repetitions, atmospheres of hopeless sufferings and longings, eternal beauty and sweetness, breathless stillnesses in the midst of the most agitated noises. And - last but not least- endings that seem endless, that fight against themselves, resist their own nature (of being endings); and other endings that let themselves be in service of their function, fully surrendering in the most humble way. So this music - sometimes purely and from beginning until end, sometimes fragmented or twisted in time, sometimes layered, decontextualized and edited with electronic sound material, will provide the acoustical fundament for our research while our bodies swim and negotiate in and with these sounds (and their surrounding silences), unfold numerous facets of sensations and movements, become vessels and channels for and between time and space, between matter and meta-matter. Fee: 190 € / red: 170 € / professional dancers: 150 € | Registration: schule@tanzfabrik-berlin.de

In this performance project, we will work with specific principals and tools of physicality in order to create a group physical language and gain common awareness on how to (re)/produce movement vocabulary and use solo or group improvisation as a main source of research. Coming from different backgrounds, we gather as a group into a creation process. Focussing on various improvisation tasks, creating, learning and sharing material, as well as decoding and reproducing our own or others physicality. Finding the body’s clarity, acceleration and performative intention by taking a closer look on how to progress our own dance and improve the mechanisms of each body part. The aim is to create physical confidence and overpass the fear of exhaustion and the fear of uncontrollable in order to unlock our personal physical potential while being useful and creative for the group’s intention and creativity. The creation result will be inspired, composed and dedicated to the group’s process. Born by the thematics which will appear from our bodies’ dramaturgy. Fee: 190 € / red: 170 € / professional dancers: 150 € | Registration: schule@tanzfabrik-berlin.de

My aim is to create a piece by offering the framework – a playground of rules and different qualities and ideas, and within this frame to create the space and freedom for personal choices and colors to exist. My interest is finding the fine balance between “losing myself” while dancing and at the same time staying alert and conscious of what is happening around me – of external stimuli. Discovering different movement qualities and dynamics and encouraging my dancers to move without fear and hesitation are also central elements. A strong focus exists on key skills of working with the floor, using improvisation tasks, strengthening exercises and basic acrobatics as well as complex choreographic sequences. Fee: 190 € / red: 170 € / professional dancers: 150 € | Registration: schule@tanzfabrik-berlin.de

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