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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.
A fireside dreaming session at Hildegard
We’d love you to join us at Lucy Powell’s Roots in the Ruins at Hildegard, a beautiful garden on the outskirts of Berlin this Saturday 7 Sunday 8 October between 4-7pm (NB postponed a day because of rain) for a fireside dreaming encounter we call Another Green World. Entrance is free.
Drossener Straße 16, 13053 Berlin, M4 Feldtmannstr
ROOTS IN THE RUINS
TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICES FOR FUTURE FLOURISHING
a series of participatory performances, discussions and workshops
in a wild garden in Berlin Alt-Hohenschönhausen
presents
Another Green World
a fireside dreaming with plan b
Saturday 7 October from 4 – 7 pm
followed by drinks and soup
As the autumn sets in and winter draws near, we invite you to dream of better, greener worlds to come. Having gathered rosemary, lavender, wormwood and sage we will bind the herbs ready for you to take home for future dreaming and cleansing.
While we do this, we will collectively enter into future visions beyond the eminent damage to this world and encounter another green world. What does waking up and stepping into this world feel like, sound like, smell like?
Afterwards, sipping lemon balm tea, a wormwood tincture based on a recipe by Hildegard herself and a hearty soup, we will warm ourselves around the fire as we share journeys through the collective imaginary.
Choreographic Milieu established as Fonds DaKü evaluation
As part of Fonds Darstellende Künste’s evaluation of their funding programmes, Sabine Zahn, Alice Chauchat, Ghyslaine Gau and Dan have been asking ourselves what performance and movement work in the urban environment needs in terms of support.
We feel ourselves part of a connected group of artists with similar concerns, a milieu. In September, we invited 12 other artists to present their work and discuss common issues at the Floating University. The artists invited were: Jason Corff, Paula Kramer, Clément Layes, Sophia New, Katja Münker, Gabi Reuter, Josh Rutter, Karol Tyminski and Siegmar Zacharias.
Dan in two dance performances in Schöneberg with Alice Chauchat
Dan is taking part in two dance performances initiated by Alice Chauchat.
A Stroll, A Song, A Doubt, An Echo is a one-on-one performance walk in the urban space, with words and silence. Made by Alice Chauchat, Ghyslaine Gau and Dan, who live in Nollendorfkiez, the piece proposes a walk together, discovering how you can meet places with the support of words, song, and dancing. Strolling through the Nollendorfkiez at nightfall, you experience the city as a space of sensorial and imaginary encounters, where intimacy and distance are constantly rearranging. Every evening at 20:45 near Nollendorfplatz in Berlin between 17 April and 3 May. Register through this Eventbrite link.
Dance Gathering is an invitation to dance together from a menu of social dances proposed by Alice Chauchat. Dance Gathering is free and open to all participants and also takes place in Berlin Schöneberg. You can either get involved in preparing for the events as hosts every other week on Tuesdays 11/4, 25/4, 9/5, 23/5 and 6/6 between 7-9pm (register at dance.together@gmail.com) or just come along to the open air dance parties on 11, 18 and 25 June 6-8pm. Exact location in Schöneberg to be confirmed.
Dan in 3 forthcoming choreographic pieces
Dan is being a busy little performer this month, performing in 3 different movement pieces, all before the end of September.
There is another chance to see the very wonderful This is Still Not Normal conceived by Arantxa Martínez and Juan Domínguez at the Uferstudios in Berlin Wedding. There are two performances every day at 5pm and 6pm from Thursday 8th – Sunday 11 September. Details on the Tanzfabrik website.
Dan will be working with Arantxa again and join Sabine Zahn and Alice Chauchat in the continuation of Sabine’s unique urban movement practice Into Dwelling #2 which takes place on Alexanderplatz, also programmed by Tanzfabrik (ticket details on their website). There are performances at 12 midday on two weekends: Thursday 15 – Saturday 17 and Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 September. The choreography Into Dwelling #2 creates the conditions for minimal interventions into the habitability of the city. 4 performers take 8 participants on a devised parcour around the microlocations of Alexanderplatz to provisionally occupy subtle situations and movements.
Dan then continues working with Arantxa and Alice to be part of Alice Chauchat’s social dance work Dance Gathering at 6pm on Saturday 24 September at the Uferstudios in Berlin Wedding. This one is free, so come and join us in the courtyard of the Uferstudios for an evening of dancing pleasure. “[Dance Gathering is] an experimental choreographic work becomes a local contemporary folk dance. Prepared in collaboration with the local community in Wedding, Dance Gathering is an open-air party in the public space where professional dancers and amateurs invite visitors to dance speculative relationships. Steps and rules are replaced by guesswork, engagement and curiosity.”
Dan performing in This is Still Not Normal
Dan is performing in the choreographers Arantxa Martínez and Juan Domínguez’s project This is Still Not Normal at Radialsystem and Uferstudios in Berlin.
The project promotes a public discourse about intimacy using nakedness, the performer’s own sexual stories, performative encounters and conversations. “Over the course of an intimate journey, the project negotiates situations and encounters that immerse us in unexpected juxtapositions of bodies, identities, experiences, fantasies and desires”
The Radialsystem dates are 25-28 August and Uferstudios dates are 8-11 September. Check the Radialsystem or Uferstudios web sites for times and ticket information.
Another Green World workshop at Art Laboratory Berlin
We are running a workshop on Sunday 14 August at Art Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin.
Using green space in the urban context of Wedding in Berlin, plan b invite participants to this outdoor workshop to collectively envision another kind of green, urban world, one that might sustain us in an uncertain future? Building on techniques of perception and imagining developed by the environmental activist Rob Hopkins, pioneer of the transition movement and author of From What Is to What If, we use the radical, transformative power of our imaginations to assess what we already have and taste what is nearly in our grasp.
Cost: 12 EUR / 8 EUR
Register here!
The workshop has a very limited capacity, therefore registration is necessary.