12th + 13th of April 2025 | TO GÆTHER | PRACTICE SHARING WEEKEND organised by Jan Lorys, Johanna Ackva and members of the mobile ensemble

Dear dancers, movers, participants, practitiones and curious people,

TO GÆTHER is a weekend of sharing practices of dancing, moving and beyond. It is initiated by Jan Lorys and Johanna Ackva as well as other dancers and artists of the mobile ensemble and beyond. It is generously hosted by Tanzhalle Wiesenburg.

TO GÆTHER was born by the wish to come together and to gather experiences, interests and skills that exist among the mobile ensemble and at its periphery, to explore well known and new materials and research interests with each other, and to share bits and pieces of our work with each other and other colleagues in the Berlin dance and performance scene.

Link to the whole program and sign-up: riseup.net

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April 2nd – 5th | premiere of Close by, So far – Landscapes of Infinity will be presented as a double bill together with Bodies of Light at the Sophiensæle in Berlin.

Come and see!

Close by, So far – Landscapes of Infinity is an oscillation between detail and expanse, born out of a longing for contemplation and healing in an age of crisis. The work is inspired by literary works such as The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which vast landscapes stand as metaphors for a utopian life. Close by, So far – Landscapes of Infinity is both an opposition and a proposal: we insist on our sensibility and our sensual experience. We oppose binary forms of being, seeing and moving: a space of resistance is needed more than ever.

Bodies of Light is based on the solo Solo for Lea (2016) and plays with mutual reflection: two people who follow each other, mirror each other, conceal each other and amplify each other’s contours, rhythms, colours and personal energies. Claudia Tomasi and Yen Lee have each developed their own interpretation of the solo. Now they come together and dance the solo at the same time. At its core, Bodies of Light unfolds at the interface between visual art and dance, between performance and installation, sensual experience and abstraction, and plays with analogies of cubism and Picasso’s drawings from a single stroke.

Info / Tickets: https://sophiensaele.com/de

Credits:
Artistic Direction, Concept, Choreography: Isabelle Schad
Co-Choreography, Dance (Close by, So far): Viviana Defazio, David Kummer, Arantxa Martinez, Alessandra Defazio
Co-Choreography, Dance (Bodies of Light): Claudia Tomasi, Yen Lee
Composition, Sound: Damir Simunovic
Light Design: Bruno Pocheron
Costume Collaboration (Close by, So far): likabari, Arantxa Martinez
Advisor Relaxed Performance: Leo Naomi Baur
Social Media: Rike Nölting
PR, Mediation: Elena Basteri
Production Management: Heiko Schramm

A production by Isabelle Schad in co-production with Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin. Supported by Wiesen55 e.V.

Photo 1: Close by, So far – Landscapes of Infinity, Mayra Wallraff, all rights reserved
Photo 2: Bodies of Light, Dieter Hartwig, all rights reserved

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February 15th 2025 | UnStumm meets Friends

Tanzhalle Wiesenburg | doors open 8 pm, performance starts 8:30pm

Katie Porter – Bass Clarinet
Sarmen Almond – Voice & Electronics
Lucio Capece – Bass Clarinet, mini speakers in feedback
Nicola L. Hein – Guitar, Electronics
Claudia Schmitz – Unfolded Screen, Expanded Live Moving Image

UnStumm – conversation of moving image, movement and sound is a longterm project of Nicola L. Hein & Claudia Schmitz

Unstumm is a collaborative intermediate project that brings together video artists and musicians. The aim is to create an environment of cultural and creative exchange in which a common, complex, transmedial artistic language is invented and used to convey narratives, textures, collisions, combinations and attractions of the visual and the sonic. Together with an exploration of the potential of the space as a sounding body and sculpture , the group will present a real-time movie (Echtzeitfilm) composed in the moment.

unstumm.com/upcoming