BODIES IN REBELLION
Zufit Simon

(2024)

After the successful production “Radical Cheerleading”, Zufit Simon continues her research into choreographed forms of protest. Her choreography explores the ambivalence of bodies that act powerfully but are open and vulnerable: oscillating between power and vulnerability. How do rebellious bodies form and what strategies are needed to question power relations?
 

CREDITS
artistic direction, choreography: Zufit Simon

creation, dance: Dorota Michalak, Sunayana Shetty, Cary Shiu, Zufit Simon

sounddesign: Fredrik Olofsson 

lighting design: JOM

costume: Lee Méir  

outside Eye: Sarah Israel, Clarissa Rêgo 
 
management: Dietrich Oberländer

PR: Beate Zeller  

support: Hauptstadtkulturfond, the Bayerischer Landesverband für zeitgenössischen Tanz (BLZT) with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, Lower Saxony Foundation

premiere: 31.10.2024 Uferstudios Berlin

photo: Dieter Hartwig, Oliver Look

GREYLINE
Renae Shadler
(2024)


“Greyline” is the second part of a trilogy that began with “Under my Gaze” (2022). It continues Renae Shadler's choreographic research into how to make more-than-human relationships tangible in performance art. The project combines dance, science and installation and is created in collaboration with the Aerocene Foundation.

CREDITS
concept, choreography, performance: Renae Shadler

co-creation, performance: Katrina Bastian, Luan de Lima, Jan Lorys, Dorota Michalak

dramaturgy: Maikon K 

voice dramaturg, voice coach: Joris Camelin 

costume design: Camillle Lacadee 

production, distribution: Dörte Wolter 

production assistant: Therese Bendjus 

support: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Inclusion and the Artists in Residence Program of fabrik Potsdam

premiere: 15.06.2024 Radialsystem Berlin

photo: Piotr Pietrus, Marine Gastineau


RADICAL CHEERLEADING
Zufit Simon
(2022-24)


Codes of cheerleading, known from athletic competitions, are used and subverted in this production to convey its own messages. Glamour, glitter and a mix of various slogans are elements of this joyful, ironic alternative to militant forms of protest.



CREDITS
artistic direction, choreography: Zufit Simon

creation, dance: Dorota Michalak, Erika Leo/ Sophie Prins, Sunayana Shetty, Cary Shiu, Zufit Simon

sound: Fredrik Olofsson

lighting design: JOM

costume design: Mirella Oestreicher

outside eye: Clarissa Rêgo, Moritz Gagern

management: Dietrich Oberländer

PR: Beate Zeller

support: Kulturreferat der LH München and Stiftung Niedersachsen, the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR & Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR

premiere: 18.11.2022 LOT-Theater Braunschweig

photo: Oliver Look, Klaus Dilger, Dieter Hartwig


DANCE GATHERINGS
Alice Chauchat
(2022-24)


“Dance Gatherings” are dance parties in open air, in which scores function as social dances. Instead of steps or style, the stories they hold about ways of relating to each other, to each other's dancing, are passed around and entered in smaller groups or duets, each in their own time, all at the same time. Each Gathering is prepared in a series of sessions where respondents to an open call learn and practice both dancing and explaining the scores.
CREDITS
artistic direction: Alice Chauchat  

music set: Manuela Schininà a.k.a Bianca Kruk

artistic collaboration: Arantxa Martinez, Dorota Michalak, Kai Evans, Daniel Belasco Rogers

iterations:
Ausufern, Uferstudios 2022

Berlin-Schöneberg  2023

Radical  Playgrounds, Berliner Festspiele, Gropius Bau  2024

photo: Aaron Williams, Camille Blake


UNDER MY GAZE
Renae Shadler
(2022-24)


“Under my Gaze” is a quartet performed by three people and the Aerocene sculpture that gives a body to the unseen forces that surround us: connecting Earth-bound dancers to aerial and cosmic worlds in a transforming landscape of shadowy creatures and molten forms.
CREDITS
concept, choreography, performance: Renae Shadler

performance: Mickey Mahar/Emeka Ene, Dorota Michalak 

composition: Samuel Hertz 

set design: Camille Lacadee 

costume design: Geraldine Arnold 

dramaturgy: Ally Bisshop, Maikon K

production, distribution: Dörte Wolter 

production assistant: Undine Sommers   
 
support: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR 

premiere: 28.07.2022 St. Elisabeth Kirche Berlin

photo: Piotr Pietrus, Lys Y. Seng


HIGH TIDE
Pauline Payen
(2022-23)


“High Tide” questions high pressure, the processing of traumatic events and the possibility to greet rage with open arms. The beauty and strategy of letting things go, exquisitely reminding us that we are alive.
CREDITSconcept, choreography, performance: Pauline Payen

performance: Dorota Michalak, Lyllie Rouvière

sound design: Charlie Aubry a.k.a Sacrifice Seul

sound operator, drums: FiFi

light design: Hanna Kritten Tangsoo

production: Apricot Production

thanks to Flutgraben Performances Residencies and the kind support of Martine Bartholini

support: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR

premiere: 16.02.2022 Flutgraben Projektraum Berlin

photo: Alicja Hoppel



COLLECTIVE JUMPS
Isabelle Schad
(2014-22)


We look for equality in movement and for the end of hierarchy between body parts. Relations between body parts are like relations between people within the group. We play and distort in any kind of way. We differentiate synchronicity from synchronisation. We understand synchronicity as the moment when things fall together in time, a phenomenon of energy. We borrow floor, formation, and holding patterns from other communally practiced forms, such as folk dance or Eastern body practices. We relate resistance to questions of rhythm. We relate protest to ques­tions of organisation and exercise. We look at the aesthetics of representation and the kind we are trying to resist. We look at the aesthetics of representation as a political practice. Could the creation of an infinite, unified, monstrous body possibly become a site of resistance? Could the body itself become a site of resistance, the body of a dancer?
CREDITSproject initiation, concept, choreography: Isabelle Schad

concept, choreography: Laurent Goldring

co-choreography, performance: Juan Corres Benito, Sonia Borkowicz, Frederike Doffin, Josephine Findeisen, Jasmin Ihrac, Przemek Kaminski, Roni Katz, Mathis Kleinschnittger, Manuel Lindner, Jan Lorys, Dorota Michalak, Iza Szostak, Claudia Tomasi, Aya Toraiwa, Nir Vidan, Natalia Wilk

sound: Damir Šimunović

light & tech: Emma Juliard,

tech: Ivan Bartsch, Arnaud Lesage

PR & social media: Elena Basteri, Rike Nölting

production management: Heiko Schramm

production: Isabelle Schad

coproduction: HAU Hebbel am Ufer

support: Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Wiesen55 e.V

in cooperation with: Goethe-Institut Warschau, Art Stations Foundation Poznan, HZT Berlin

photo: Jakub Wittchen





IN RETURN
Moritz Majce
& Sandra Man
(2022)


It is a space choreography with live installation and space poem.

The visitors drift from the live installation to the image space. Between body and imagination, a movement of coming together, parting and returning emerges.

CREDITS
space, choreography: Moritz Majce

video: Sandra Man

performance live installation: Ágnes Grélinger, Mikael Marklund, Florencia Martina, Dorota Michalak, Sarah Stanley

video performance: Assi Pakkane

body coaching: Sigal Zouk

costume design: Nina Loxton

production: Tiphaine Carrèr

camera operators: Hana Khalil, Mariel Baqueir

artistic technical support: Marc Lagie  

support: Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Land Kärnten Kultur

in cooperation with Collmot Research

premiere: 23.02.2022 Open Spaces, Tanzfabrik Berlin






POTRZEBUJE CIE
JAK WODY
Krystyna Lama Szydlowska
(2020)


Jest to lokalny projekt choreograficzno-muzyczny, w którym poprzez gest, ruch i dźwięk spróbujemy uchwycić relację między wodą, a człowiekiem oraz zagłębić się w naturę tego żywiołu. Spektakl powstał z myślą o poznańskich podwórkach i dziedzińcach. Do oglądania z okien, klatek schodowych, balkonów czy dachów!
CREDITS
artistic direction, choreography: Krystyna Lama Szydłowska  

co-creation, performance: Sonia Borkowicz, Patryk Gorzkiewicz, Dorota Michalak, Zofia Tomczyk

music: Piotr Delimata, Marta Cecylia Michalak

scenographic object: Tetiana Baran

premiere: 5.08.2020 Malta Festival Poznan

photo: Maciej Zakrzewski






SIORY
Ola Winnicka
(2020)


The videos by SIORY, created as part of Magiczne zaangażowanie / Magical Engagement exhibition (18.09-31.10.2020 in Galeria Miejska Arsenał/Poznań), is a choreographic-sound story about tenderness and sisterly solidarity, giving rhythm to a world in pandemic. Siory is a romantic revolutionism, Joanna d'Arc in a nostalgic, urban-Polish-Mud landscape. The first album "SERCE/HEART" was recently released by Sejf & Dym. Apart from music, an important element of SIORY's work is choreography and costumes.

CREDITS
concept & music:
Ola Winnicka

dance:
Sharón Mercado Nogales, Sunayana Shetty, Misia Zurek, Kasia Zurawska, Dorota Michalak

choreography:
Dorota Michalak

costume design:
Marta Szypulska, Angelina Jankowska

make up:
Marta Szypulska, Jedrzej Kucznerowicz

technical assistant:
Robert Białek

directed and edited by:
Lukasz Jankowski

producer:
LukinoFilm

executive producer:
Galeria Miejska Arsenal Poznan

support: Galeria Miejska Arsenal in Poznan, Fundacja Wspólpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej