Right Now

is an experimental writing platform about and around Berlin’s performative actions. The project has an accent on voicing the embodied experiences of marginalised individuals. From September 2020 to February 2021 the cooperation between tanzschreiber and Right Now complements the Dance Review Portal's spectrum. The team: Inky Lee (Artistic director & Writer), Adi Brief (Production manager), Aslan R (Editor), Nine Yamamoto-Masson (Translator), and six guest authors. The project is funded by Berlin's Senate Department for Culture IMPACT-Funding / Diversity Fund 2020.

Monologue to Dance

24. February 2021, Right Now

Language:
EN

Inky Lee creates an immersive sound monologue that addresses dance.

Collage of Loneness

10. February 2021, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

The Corona pandemic provided some people more time to be alone. Sometimes, this may mean sitting with oneself without external distractions. Inky Lee, who lives alone, is one of these people. One night, she quietly sits in this state and observes the movements of her insides.

Crumb Drawers

27. January 2021, Right Now

Language:
EN

When the possibility of meeting and touching people has been restricted due to the Corona pandemic, Inky Lee reflects on physical intimacy.

Moving Puzzle

13. January 2021, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

When movement has been restricted due to the Corona pandemic, Inky Lee travels in her room.

The Parallel World in Me …

13. December 2020, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

Written by Akiles.*

Finding your space in Berlin is not a simple task. However, with the support of the relevant institutions, many obstacles disappear. It was the same for me, only I had other hurdles to overcome first: political issues, bureaucracy, and a disease.

Be More Chinese

9. December 2020, Right Now

Language:
EN

Inky Lee writes about “Exotic Animal”, a performance created and performed by Ming Poon, and co-produced by English Theatre Berlin. The performance took place online, via Zoom, on 3 – 5 December 2020.

Commanding the Relentless Gaze

1. December 2020, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

Goitseone Montsho* reckons with, and contemplates how, Black femmes use fashion to return, pacify, and engage the white, male, and cis gaze in Berlin’s performance scene.

Veiled Motions

19. November 2020, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

Rhea Ramjohn* reflects on the metaphorical and physical masks that shape our day-to-day movements and interactions. The “performance” of creating space for one another during the Covid-19 pandemic has brought physical distancing to the forefront, and has exposed what many marginalised people have long-known as the pandemic of being othered.

Squirming Like Disco Stars

13. November 2020, Right Now

Language:
EN

Inky and Imari imagine themselves as worms, and plot their way to continue squirming in creative arcs after being stepped on.

You Are Not Invited

10. November 2020, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

Berlinklusion’s Kate Brehme* reflects on “You Are Not Invited”, a protest action created by the organisation in 2019 at the Haus der Statistik. This ‘un-exhibition’ — an exhibition that no-one was invited to, was Berlinklusion’s exploration of the relationship between gentrification, the temporary use of non-arts spaces for cultural purposes, and the neo-liberal structures that perpetuate inaccessible working conditions for arts workers in Berlin.

Sajan Mani – Tyger von otherspur

6. November 2020, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

Review written by Nine Yamamoto-Masson.*

This performance was part of the festival Radical Mutation: On the Ruins of Rising Suns, curated by Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Saskia Köbschall, Tmnit Zere, in collaboration with Wearebornfree! Empowerment Radio, 23.9.–4.10.2020, HAU1+2+4.

Do Not Write

27. October 2020, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

Inky Lee thinks about her personal relationship to dance and writing after attending an event in Berlin about dance and writing. After ardent attempts, she fails to articulate.

We Have to Learn to Repair the Denial: Inverted Landscapes, Action in the Streets and Stolen Lives.

20. October 2020, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

On September 11, 2020, Pêdra Costa* went to see “Inverted Landscapes”, a performance directed by André e. Teodósio (Teatro Praga) from Lisbon, which began inside with an exhibition by Teodósio and Bruno Bogarim, and was then taken out onto the streets. It was presented at the gallery Kunstraum Botschaft – Camões Berlim, by the performers Ana Tang, Aurora Pinho and Paulo Pascoal.

Twinkle, a Hormonal Dance

6. October 2020, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

Inky Lee contemplates hormones, desire, and love in the context of attending Twinkle, a sound and movement gathering, and observing her cat’s hormonal explosion.

My Survival Tactic: Fantasising

19. September 2020, Right Now

Languages:
DE
and
EN

Inky Lee writes about her personal experience around rehearsing and performing in an unnamed work. The piece premiered in Berlin and consisted of three parts performed in three different locations.