Wiegenlieder! by Claudia Garbe
dance performance for 5 air beds, 3 performers*, 8.5 melodicas, 1 musician, X mothers*, 1 fresh air and 1 care choir
Lullabies are a ritual that parents all over the world use to accompany their children to sleep. But who sings – and are lullabies work? Lullabies! is an open-air dance performance about motherhood and care work from a queer-feminist perspective, inspired by Brecht’s „Wiegenlieder einer proletarischen Mutter“ (1932):
These are songs to fall asleep to, but at the same time meant to rouse – they are soothing, repetitive, but also agitational.
This dialectic becomes the redthread of the performance. On a breathing landscape of airbeds and with melodicas as the living lungs of the piece, the performers dance and work between lulling and rebelling, resistance and surrender.
Opposing them is a chorus of the caring, singing, speaking, moving, resisting or catching them.
Choreography: Claudia Garbe Performance: Steffi Sembdner, Virginnia Krämer, Diana Thielen + Special Guest Dita Scholl, Dramaturgy: Anja Spitzer, Margret Schütz Choir direction: Johanne Timm Sound Performance: Vera Pulido Stage/Costume: Michaela Muchina Production Management: Anna Konrad Assistance: Jojo Büttler, Lisa Homburger, PR and Public Relations: Gesa Rindermann Graphics: Ingolf Watzlaw
Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ - STEPPINGOUT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Uferstudios und des Theaterhaus Mitte.
Foto: Franziska Cazanave
Berlin, July 2022
Lullabies are a ritual that parents all over the world use to accompany their children to sleep. But who sings – and are lullabies work? Lullabies! is an open-air dance performance about motherhood and care work from a queer-feminist perspective, inspired by Brecht’s „Wiegenlieder einer proletarischen Mutter“ (1932):
These are songs to fall asleep to, but at the same time meant to rouse – they are soothing, repetitive, but also agitational.
This dialectic becomes the redthread of the performance. On a breathing landscape of airbeds and with melodicas as the living lungs of the piece, the performers dance and work between lulling and rebelling, resistance and surrender.
Opposing them is a chorus of the caring, singing, speaking, moving, resisting or catching them.
Choreography: Claudia Garbe Performance: Steffi Sembdner, Virginnia Krämer, Diana Thielen + Special Guest Dita Scholl, Dramaturgy: Anja Spitzer, Margret Schütz Choir direction: Johanne Timm Sound Performance: Vera Pulido Stage/Costume: Michaela Muchina Production Management: Anna Konrad Assistance: Jojo Büttler, Lisa Homburger, PR and Public Relations: Gesa Rindermann Graphics: Ingolf Watzlaw
Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ - STEPPINGOUT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Uferstudios und des Theaterhaus Mitte.
Foto: Franziska Cazanave
Berlin, July 2022
Solo Neutral Follow/Vortex by Sara Shelton Mann
The question: Are you in your body? Someone else’s or in the “in between”
SNF (Solo Neutral Follow) is a basic study in creating space, taking 100% attention 100% of the time. It is a training of focus, concentration and multidirectional attention. This process frees you from criticism, develops spontaneity, and discipline that takes you to the mat of responsibility. It takes commitment and suspension of beliefs. It is also very much fun and quite exhausting.
performers: Catol Camilla, Manon Siv Duquesnay, David Kummer, Ainsley Elizabeth Tharp, Hannah Levin, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Nathaniel Moore, Rafaela Sahyoun, Diana Thielen, Anna V Pippi Wallin.
A collaboration of choreographers who have worked with San Francisco dance luminary Sara Shelton Mann over the years. This is the 2nd festival celebrating coming together and making performance at Dock 11 in Berlin.
No Borders Festival took place at Dock 11 Berlin with works by Sara Shelton Mann, Yannis Adoniou, Christine Bonansea and Daiane Lopes da Silva,
pics by Alfred M. Spormann
Berlin, August 2019
SNF (Solo Neutral Follow) is a basic study in creating space, taking 100% attention 100% of the time. It is a training of focus, concentration and multidirectional attention. This process frees you from criticism, develops spontaneity, and discipline that takes you to the mat of responsibility. It takes commitment and suspension of beliefs. It is also very much fun and quite exhausting.
performers: Catol Camilla, Manon Siv Duquesnay, David Kummer, Ainsley Elizabeth Tharp, Hannah Levin, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Nathaniel Moore, Rafaela Sahyoun, Diana Thielen, Anna V Pippi Wallin.
A collaboration of choreographers who have worked with San Francisco dance luminary Sara Shelton Mann over the years. This is the 2nd festival celebrating coming together and making performance at Dock 11 in Berlin.
No Borders Festival took place at Dock 11 Berlin with works by Sara Shelton Mann, Yannis Adoniou, Christine Bonansea and Daiane Lopes da Silva,
pics by Alfred M. Spormann
Berlin, August 2019
The Survival Project: This WH(holy)OLE House by Makisig Akin
This second iteration of The Survival Project. Fake FutureS by Makisig Akin with Sarra Bouars, Barry Brannum, Randy Reyes and Diana Thielen delves deep into the process of our permission to exist, the river of acceptance that “everything is not under control”, and the discovery of our self in the darkness. In this creative space, we process beyond conversations, discussions, and individual contemplation; but instead, we use the creative space to physicalize our emotions, answer each others questions, objectify our baggages, to grieve communally, and to celebrate the joke of it all.
pics by Charles Han
Los Angeles, USA, April 2019
pics by Charles Han
Los Angeles, USA, April 2019
Sitting on a Man’s Head by Okwui Okpokwasili, Biennale Berlin 2018
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For Sitting on a Man’s Head (2018), Okpokwasili collaborated with her partner Peter Born and a number of Berlin-based artists to produce a work that adopts the tactics of a form of protest traditionally practiced by women in eastern Nigeria, metaphorically called “sitting on a man’s head.” Through a collective invasion of seats of power, it was a strategy used to speak back, air grievances, and effect change. Okpokwasili and her collaborators present an unfolding score that can be activated by all who enter the proffered space. Both score and embodied space work in the service of resistance and self-preservation, so we can “come together, find each other, and call out.”
—Nomaduma Rosa Masilel with: Adrian Blount, Alexander Carillo, Andre Neely, Birte Opitz, Danilo Andrés, Dessa Ganda, Diana Thielen, Elvina Pinto, Jenny Ocampo, Josephine Brinkmann, Josephine Findeisen, Khadidiatou Bangoura, Kyle Patrick, Lena Bagutti, Malika Alaoui, Manuel Meza, Martha Hincapié Charry, Maya Gomez, Michelle Moura, Natascha Roy, Noa Mamrud, Rebecca Korang, Riako Napitupulu, Risa Kojima, Sarah Bouars, Wieland Möller, Yaron Maim, Yin Cheng, Yuri Shimaoka, Zwoisy Mears Clarke Berlin, Summer 2018 |
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Sweet Peep Salon by JA! productions
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"Of all the female* sins, hunger is the least forgivable; hunger for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love. If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings." (L. Penny, Unspeakable Things) Essen und Sex: SWEET PEEP SALON seeks alternative expressions of body, eroticism and emancipated femininity. How do feminist, sexpositive ideas change contemporary depictions of intimacy and the body? Which substantial notions of sexuality do we have to rethink? Essen und Sex: SWEET PEEP SALON wants to free us from the desire to have a slim, clean, controllable body, to enable us to enjoy the lust of letting go. Von JA! Produktion (Julia Laube, Alisa Tretau) Installationens of Marvin Horstmann; Peep Performances von Johanna Ackva, Tizo All, Sarah Bouars, Savyon Dizengof, Jonas Maria Droste & Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez, Winnie Ho, Carrie McIlwain, Leo Meyer-Schwick, Lulu Obermaier, Joy Mariama Smith, Diana Thielen, u.a. Gefördert durch den Berliner Senat / Abt. Kult. Angelegenheiten / City Tax, pics by Ana Ringleb Berlin 2016 |
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