Alice Heyward

is a dancer and works as a performer, choreographer, dramaturge, teacher, writer, and editor. Her practice develops through diverse collaborations as author, co-author, and interpreter. Through movement-thought, she explores the production of embodied poetics. Her choreographic work has been presented at Klosterruine Berlin, Hua International, Uferstudios, MPavilion, Gertrude Contemporary, Next Wave Festival, Dancehouse Melbourne and Murray White Room, among other contexts. She works as a dancer-performer with artists Maria Hassabi, Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu, Luísa Saraiva, Alexandra Pirici, Dora García, Grażyna Roguski, Simone Forti, Trisha Brown, Hana Erdman, Alicia Frankovich and Adam Linder. Her writing is published in various contexts.

LEAH KATZ

25. July 2024, Alice Heyward

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Through Ariel Ashbel’s characteristic aesthetic that exposes the mechanics of the theatrical apparatus, Fiddler! A Musical unites the tender beauty and complexities of different storytellings, traditions, and approaches to faith.

One’s last is another’s first

22. July 2024, Alice Heyward

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Last Dance | And for the time being by Ian Kaler and Stéphane Peeps Moun (19–21 July 2024, Uferstudio 14) joins two solos that sculpt time through physical movement—text and dance interact as staged material, producing subtle relationships between human and non-human subjects.

The Centre is Everywhere, the Circumference is Nowhere

25. June 2024, Alice Heyward

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LATE, premiering on 22 and 23 June at Studio Storkower Straße 115, directed by Juli Reinartz, takes the figure and format of a ball (dance) as a landscape for coexistence and change, exploring crip time as simultaneous multiplicity for bodies sharing space.

Ausatmen

20. June 2024, Alice Heyward

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DE
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In der Luft, by Tatiana Mejía and Kareth Schaffer, was previewed on 18 June at TANZKOMPLIZEN in Podewil and will premiere on 27 September. This fun, educational, and imaginative dance work brings the attention of audiences six years of age and over to the mixture of many gases and tiny dust particles all around us: air.

Beyond the joy of the evident

19. February 2024, Alice Heyward

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DE
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Staatsballett Berlin performs three groundbreaking works by William Forsythe, who remounted them with the company’s dancers. The evening offers a lively encounter with ballet as a process to decipher by dancers and audience alike. Premiering at Deutsche Oper on 16 February 2024, it also shows between 19–23 February, 4–14 March, and 1–9 April.
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Ground Control

5. February 2024, Alice Heyward

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DE
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Melanie Jame Wolf’s performance More Ballads of Outlaw Feelings on 3 February 2024, as part of her expansive exhibition The Creep at E-WERK Luckenwalde from 21 October 2023 – 10 February 2024, offers a vivid characterisation of the way power patterns become, seemingly, inevitable.

blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire

15. January 2024, Alice Heyward

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DE
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This resting, patience by Ewa Dziarnowska, presented from 3-6 pm on 13 and 14 January at Sophiensæle in the frame of Tanztage Berlin 2024, is an emotional passage of bodily tension rising, rupturing, releasing and regenerating through cycles of feeling as dancing.

Loose Trade

3. December 2023, Alice Heyward

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DE
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EN

MIKE (2023) by Dana Michel, presented across three afternoons from 1 to 3 December 2023 by the Berliner Festspiele at Martin-Gropius-Bau, creates a sensitive, tolerant and humorous space for contemplations and questions about how bodies are put to work.