Posts Tagged: Wedding
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.
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.”
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.
Sophia moderating PSR Dance by Other Means today
From 17:00–18:57 (Berlin time) today, Sophia will moderate a panel about the launch of the new publication coming from PSR member Mila Pavićević’s residency Dance by Other Means (which I was honoured to proof read). The panel will consist of Sophia New, Igor Dobričić, Alexandra Hennig and Matthias Mohr. Its part of an all-day programme of events called Our Dance, organised by PSR collective (sorry guys, not going to link to your FB page for ethical reasons). Details and stream link can be found here.
Swarm Cell City workshop with Heather Barnett at Art Laboratory, Berlin
We are looking forward to collaborating with the London-based artist Heather Barnett on a two-day workshop on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September at Art Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin.
The project invites the participants to view the city of Berlin by the nonhuman perspectives of the intelligent single-cell organism, the slime mould, Physarum polycephalum and GPS tracking.
After a day discovering and experimenting with living slime mould cultures under Heather’s expert guidance, on the second day, we will ask what it is to embody slime mould and how to adopt its techniques for spatial investigation onto the urban petri dish of Wedding.
We will develop our own ‘stigmergic’ rules (leaving traces in environment that affect the behaviour of others) as well as seeing whether we can all develop a sense of being one organism that explores its environment.
Dan and Sophia’s particular area of expertise with GPS will be used to track our excursions as slime mould across the urban space and after the workshop, animations of the group’s explorations will contribute to the final exhibition.
The workshop costs 20/15 EUR for both days which run from 1-5pm. Please register by sending an email to register@artlaboratory-berlin.org