Continue reading ““I gave Birth to a Hawk”. Or: On Neverending Labor Pains”With New Report On Giving Birth (6 + 7 March 2024, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)), Chinese choreographer and dancer Wen Hui builds on her piece Report On Giving Birth presented 20 years ago. Together with three dancers, she takes stock: what has changed for childbearing bodies since then? What has not?
Johanna Ackva
revolves in her artistic practice around the interactions between physical and metaphysical movements. Her works on paper and in performative spaces address the relationships between body and thought, the living and the dead, the world and perception. As a choreographer, dancer, lecturer, author and curator, she is mainly active in Berlin. In the Uckermark (Brandenburg), she runs the Libken thinking and production space as part of a team of four.
Between two stools
The PURPLE – International Dance Festival for Young Audiences (20th – 28th January) opened on Saturday, 20th January, 2024 with Chotto Desh, a moving solo about the biography of dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.
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Boy, say something!
In Solo for Boy, which premiered at Dock11 on 11.1.2024, choreographer Sasha Amaya in dialogue with dancer Félix Deepen, works her way through Western representations of male beauty in art, fashion and pop culture.
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Only Guests on Earth
The interdisciplinary evening Terrestrial Transit asks how we can embrace the earthly and finite transition of being as a way of life. With five performances at DOCK11 until December 9, 2023, the company Cranky Bodies concludes a nomadic project that began in Berlin and led via Brandenburg and the border town of Szczecin to the Baltic Sea.
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Home Match of Monstrosities
Continue reading “Home Match of Monstrosities”The series Fold (Tanzfabrik) ends the year with works concerned with ghosts and demons. In The Multiplicity of the Other shown from the 30.11 until 2.12.2023, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández dwells on the Other as a ghostly presence in one’s own body.
