Posts in Category: Diary
Classed Bodies Book Launch and dancing in the dark
The book that Dan has co-edited with Sandra Noeth and written a chapter in, Classed Bodies – The Performance of Discrimination in the Arts, will be launched at Uferstudios 9 at 6pm on Tuesday 3rd November.
The design for the publication is by Ana Lessing Menjibar, who also contributed her own chapter with Sandra Umathum also providing editorial support. Contributors are: Tanja Abou, Michael Annoff & Nuray Demir, Daniel Belasco Rogers, Gurur Ertem, Eva Maria Gajek, Kerstin Honeit, Romuald Krężel, Ana Lessing Menjibar, Tunay Önder, Hendrik Quast, Francis Seeck, Ana Vujanović, Stefanie Wenner, Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley and Sandra Umathum.
Later that week, on Sunday 8th November, there is a Space for Practice Extended event, a silent disco at the Floating in Berlin from 4–6pm. DJs: Llambda (Sebastian Mall) & Nicholas Desamory (with Ralley, urban stuff from the southern Hemisphere)
We invite you to groove with us and meet the site in a rare moment of winter. For two hours the rainwater basin will become our outdoor ballroom with sounds by Nicolas Desamory & Llambda (Sebastian Mall) and a set of silent disco headphones. The main score being the rhythms and music provided through the headphones or the rhythms and sounds provided by the rainwaterbasin with headphones off.
- There is no running water, no toilet and no real warm place. Bring your own hot drinks!
- We will do it with the conditions at stake, with any kind of weather and other unforeseeable conditions. Be prepared. And note that you are there at your own risk.
- Without fee but happy for donations
Organised by the Choreographic Milieu: Alice Chauchat, Clément Layes, Daniel Belasco Rogers, Gabriele Reuter, Ghyslaine Gau, Lea Martini, Paula Kramer and Sabine Zahn.
Open Studios and work installed in Kreuzberg
Come and join us at our studio this weekend! 5th and 6th September 1-7pm (13-19h) Naumannpark Studios 10829 Berlin Schöneberg
To draw attention to the fact that many subsidised artists’ studios like ours are threatened with closure due to politically motivated cuts to culture, there is a Berlin-wide SOS – Save Our Studios action this weekend and we’re taking part!
We have also just installed five works at Urban Hybrid Space a co-working gallery, and sports centre on Urbanstr. 93, 10967 Berlin. We’re showing the laser works 2 new cyanotypes and a two-colour ink jet print that incorporates the last 20 years of our GPS traces together in Berlin. There is a very friendly team at the space and the works will be there for a couple of months.
Dan and Lucy Powell present ‘Intestines of the Earth’ at Hildegard on Sunday 7th June
Sunday 7 June, 3–6pm at Hildegard, Drossener Straße 16, 13053 Berlin (Map). Free
Vermicomposting and more! Let’s spend an afternoon together honouring the geologic force of the eyeless invertebrates who, in the words of Charles Darwin, “mingle the whole intimately together”.
A full-bodied encounter with worms, remembering that at the root of our humanity, we are entwined with these lowly soil makers through the Indo-European word ghôm (humus or earth), which connects us to the other great levellers, humilty and humour.
We will experiment with worm charming, listen to worms underground, learn about vermicomposting to create nutrient-rich soil (especially important with the global fertilizer shortage and quite possible in an apartment) and explore how we might use the notion of composting to metabolize some of the shit that has led our civilisation into an impasse.
With Dan Belasco Rogers and Lucy Powell
Please send an email to: hello@hildegard.berlin to book a free slot.
Space for Practice 2026 season starts on 13 April
Space for Practice is a weekly movement practice session that happens every Monday morning between 9 and 11am in the Floating, originally initiated by Sabine Zahn.
This year, the Choreographic Milieu, Alice Chauchat, Clément Layes, Daniel Belasco Rogers, Gabriele Reuter, Ghyslaine Gau, Lea Martini, Paula Kramer and Sabine Zahn are all responsible for hosting.
Space for Practice makes time and space for movement practice with/in the rainwater retention basin of Floating. It is a regular activity with/in irregular conditions such as weather, other activities and the presence of people, beings and materials. It is an occasion for practices to encounter a place, for choreographers to encounter practitioners, for practitioners to encounter the site of Floating and for the site to shape the practices. This year’s edition is convened and facilitated in changing constellations by the Choreographic Milieu: Alice Chauchat, Clément Layes, Daniel Belasco Rogers, Gabriele Reuter, Ghyslaine Gau, Lea Martini, Paula Kramer and Sabine Zahn. We all offer proposals that stem from our respective practices/curiosities and from the site, whilst following each other’s traces.
We start on time at 9 am and all who are present hold the space collectively. There is no need to register and participation is free of charge. All are welcome, regardless of whether you have experience with movement practices or not and are committed to working things out together.
EVERY MONDAY from 9 – 11 am. at Floating University, Lilienthalstrasse 32, 10965 BERLIN
from April 13 – October 12, 2026. We take a break on May 25 and during the summer from July 13 until August 17.
New GPS print delivered
This is our latest GPS print, entitled ‘Daniel Belasco Rogers, All my Journeys in Berlin 2003-2025’ It was printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag archival acid free paper and mounted on 2mm Dibond with an aluminium frame behind for extra rigidity and to hang from. The proud owner picked it up this morning and is driving to Vienna with it today and tomorrow. We’re super happy with the pigment ink printing – the dense black areas look so sooty! Thanks to Florian Richter at Printbox and Kaschierung Berlin in Wedding.
Dan co-facilitating Sabine Zahn’s RIFS Labs
Dan is very happy to be working with Sabine Zahn again. Sabine is currently a fellow at Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) in Potsdam and developing some labs that bring her approach to body and city-making to urban planners, politicians, architects, geographers as well as dancers, artists and performers. Susanne Grau is also supporting the labs as part of an Erasmus+ programme.
The first lab was on Thursday 25 September. The next is Saturday 27 September and in October, there will be labs on Wednesday 8 and Thursday 16 October.
If you’re interested, please get in touch. It’s a full day, 9:30am–4pm and free of charge. Lunch, refreshments and snacks are provided. We’re based at Leipziger Str. 54, 10117 Berlin-Mitte.
The Taxonomy of Togetherness in Berlin on 6th Sept
On Saturday 6th September, at 6pm we will be performing at the Kleine Orangerie am Schloss Charlottenburg, Spandauer Damm 22, 14059 Berlin.
We will present a new short performance called ‘The Taxonomy of Togetherness’ as part of a weekend of performances, all with free entry, curated by Steffi Weismann and Oliver Möst which we are delighted to be part of.
When we saw the space of the Kleine Orangerie we knew that the unusual space warranted a performance that responds to the long format of that room. It reminded us of the time we shrunk a 133km bike journey to a residency in Mecklenburg Vorpommern into the Probebühne in Podewil for our show Wonderworld. We also both had the instinct to dust off the Henley Megaphones last used in a Message to You for the Festival Do Oceans Dream of Rivers, curated by Amy Sharrocks in Reading. Building on texts that emerged from a residency in PACT, we started to use our database of our daily GPS recordings spanning two decades to ask about time spent together or apart.
This was all before the pandemic and we developed a performance lecture based on that research called Together/Apart which was shown at the Haus der Statistik in June 2020 as part of Stadterweitern and again at the Floating in 2021, both at the invitation of Sabine Zahn.
Cyanotype Prints
We’re starting a new series of cyanotype prints, which we’ve been meaning to do for ages. We are very inspired by the beauty of Anna Atkins’ seaweed cyanotypes from the mid-19th Century as well as architectural blueprints. Of course the blue of cyanotypes is chemically the same as so-called Prussian Blue or Berlinisch Blau, discovered here in the early 18th Century.
Expanded Choreography research workshop at University of Bern
We were delighted to be invited back to the University of Bern between 6-8th May (we were last there in March 2022), to take part in the workshop exploring The limits of expanded choreography: Eurocentric paradigm or critical potential? curated by Anna Leon and Johanna Hilari.
We were together with the following wonderful practitioners and thinkers: Charlotta Ruth, David Castillo, Freda Fiala, Marcel Kieslich, Moss Kaldi, Willimann/Arai and Dawit Seto
New book ‘Walking as Artistic Practice’ features us!
Ellen Mueller wrote to let us know that we are included in her latest book ‘Walking as Artistic Practice‘. Following this, she invited us to contribute an interview about our work on her blog, which has just gone live.
