STAGGER | Britt Angus & Bláthín Eckhardt | work in progress
Stagger is a contemporary piece inspired by dead rock stars and psychedlia. The piece will be presented in its entirety on February 12th at at Eschschloraque Rümschrümp (Bande à Part – Tanzbare Veranstaltung für Außenseiter).
Britt Angus
Brittany is a Canadian contemporary dance artist based in Berlin, Germany. She holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts. Brittany has performed with Dezza Dance Co., the response. (The Response Dance Society), Coastal City Ballet and in works by Judith Garay (Martha Graham Company), Rob Kitsos, Heather Myers (NDT), David Raymond (Kidd Pivot), Lesley Telford (NDT) and Tiffany Tregarthen (Kidd Pivot). After receiving a scholarship from Simon Fraser University, Brittany completed her BFA through Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, a research-focused, artist-run initiative. This past year in Europe Brittany has studied repertoire by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Emanuel Gat, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Crystal Pite and Sasha Waltz.
In Berlin, Brittany has performed and interpreted choreography by Gosia Gajdemska, Satoshi Kudo and Helder Seabra. She has recently participated in Luna Park's International Exchange Program for young dancers and choreographers in Berlin and Athens. In Athens 2018 Brittany performed her choreographic work 'Tangerine' and appeared in 'Βουνά οι επιθυμίες' (Mountains of Desire) by Kosmas Kosmopoulos.
Bláthín Eckhardt
begann das Tanzen und Eiskunstlaufen zu lernen, kurz nachdem sie stehen konnte. Nach Abschluss der RAD Ballett Prüfungen und dem Abitur in Bayern, erhielt sie ihr Diplom in Tanz und Tanzpädagogik in Dublin. Zeitgleich war sie Mitglied der Dublin Youth Dance Company, arbeitete mit Toni Bravo (TX), und zeigte im letzten Jahr ihres Studiums ein co-choreographiertes Duett auf verschiedenen Tanzfestivals in Irland.
Anfang 2018 kam sie nach Berlin und arbeitet seitdem mit Studenten der dBS Filmschule des Funkhauses für die tänzerische Untermalung in Kurzfilmen, Musikvideos und in der Werbung. In Berlin ist sie als freischaffende Tänzerin, Tanzpädagogin und Musikerin tätig.
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PROXIMA | Stefania Petracca & Rieko Okuda
Proxima is a project of improvisation where dance music and poetic text mix and transform space and imagination. It is a performance where dancer and musician create immediate compositions, and through poetry and voice establish spatial communication and emotional power to the around. It is based on Instant Composition and approaches surrounding and inner perceptions using the word and the voice as the main element of unification.
In the work the artists mix Japaneses texts with verses and poetry of italian conteporary poetess (Mariangela gualtieri, Oriel Pozzuoli). The merging of different languages (by voice of musician and dancer), their intonations, melodies and rhythm, translate another layer of interpretation.
The poetic text passes through a body in movement to evoke choreography and make internal perceptions connect with collective memory. There is a collective memory inscribed into gestures and body movements, that the voice discloses.
Stefania Petracca
works as dancer, maker and dance-teacher in Berlin where she moved in 2013.
She got her degree in Dance, Choreography & Pedagogy in Milan by Franca Ferrari's C.I.M.D. (International Movement and Dance Center), followed by studies with several choreographers and training in different dance techniques included Instant Composition. She has been making dance and pieces as solos, in collectives and in big or small companies. (Las Fura dels Baus, Maggio Fiorentino Theatre, Christina Bonansea C.). In the past she also worked with other artistic form as clowning and street theatre around Italy and Europe. She is co-founder of the ensemble One:Third (preis 100°Berlin Festival 2015). As free-lancer she is active on the Berlin scene as improviser, constantly experiencing new and multidisciplinary collaborations in live-performances. Meanwhile she brings on her own pieces and teachs to adults and (even very young) children.
Rieko Okuda
is a pianist and a composer. She began with Classical music from the age of 3, in Japan. In her young age, she attended to Kaizuka city Piano Competition, and got the first prize. Later then moved to USA to study and learn Jazz music. She fell right into the Jazz scene in USA, performing with some of the great American Jazz musicians (Bob Mintzer, Jon Faddis, John Fedchock etc.) Also, she got interested in Free Jazz and Improvised music scene while she was in Phliladelphia. She performed with the great improvisers includes Marshall Allen (from San Ra Orchestra), Elliott Levine (recorded with Cecil Taylor), and Calvin Weston (recorded with Ornette Coleman). She has performed in Jazz Festivals throughout her stay in USA. Her interests in Improvised music led her to move to Berlin and perform with various musicians. Currently, she performs with Audrey Chen, Els Vendaweyer, Susanne Zapf (from Sonar Quartet), Yuko Kaseki, Axel Dörner, ect. She also performs at several experimental festivals: XChange Festival, Experymental Festival, and Art-Sound Festival to name a few.
In 2014, she got to work with Japanese Pop Artist, YUZU. She arranged the song called “Amenochi Hareruya,“ which awarded Japan Record Award 2014.
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DAS KUNSTSEIDENE MÄDCHEN | Coline Quintin & Jan Becker
Das kunstseidene Mädchen ist ein Roman, den Irmgard Keun als nicht datiertes Tagebuch geschrieben hat. Coline Quintin spielt einen Ausschnitt aus diesem wunderbaren Text.
Keuns Protagonistin Doris vertraut uns darin ihre Gedanken und Gefühle an, wir bekommen ihre Geschichte unerfüllter Träume, unerfüllter Sehnsüchte nach Liebe, nach dem Geliebtwerden, aber auch nach materieller Sicherheit, nach einem Leben, das sich nicht nur an der Befriedigung der momentanen Nöte orientieren muss, erzählt. "Ich möchte ein Glanz werden!" schreibt die 18 jährige Doris in ihr Tagebuch. – Aber was ist ein Glanz? Und wie wandeln sich unsere Träume und Lebensziele im Laufe unseres Lebens? Eine Geschichte übers Erwachsenwerden, über den Weg eines Mädchens zur Frau und zu sich selbst.
Coline Quintin
ist Tänzerin und Choreografin. Sie hat ihre Tanzausbildung am Conservatorium von Paris im 2008 absolviert und lebt in Berlin, wo sie verschiedene Projekte entwickelt. Sie macht seit kurzem Schauspiel und betritt bei der ÖP # 01 | 19 die Bühne zum ersten Mal als Schauspielerin.
Foto/Grafik: Sina Opalka/Elise Scheider
Gestaltung : Jan Becker
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DON JUAN – von Molière | PIZZA APOKALYPSE – von Ingrid Lausund
Lennart König | Monologarbeit