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Dancer and Performer
Since 2021 I have been working freelance for various choreographers in Germany and Belgium, the projects range from contemporary dance performances to dance theater and mask work.
ALTER, Nyash /Caroline Cornelis
ALTER is a sonic and sensory dialogue between a dancer and a drummer without drums.
Together they explore all the states of clay, transforming the stage into micro and macroscopic landscapes. Imaginary places, cities, soils and reliefs emerge from the depths of their exchanges. Always in the moment, they trace intuitive paths in a direct, raw and unadorned relationship with the material.
Together they explore all the states of clay, transforming the stage into micro and macroscopic landscapes. Imaginary places, cities, soils and reliefs emerge from the depths of their exchanges. Always in the moment, they trace intuitive paths in a direct, raw and unadorned relationship with the material.
WONDERBOOM
Riera/Velhagen
Between apocalyptic ecstasy and despair, four last party guests celebrate a seemingly never-ending end-of-the-world party. Not knowing what is to come, they want to save something that can send testimony to another time in a place light years away. They make sound recordings of their humanity in this world. Will anything out there ever receive and understand these messages? Or are they themselves the aliens who no longer understand their world?
Künstlerische Leitung: Philine Velhagen, Julia Riera; Tanz/Performance: Margherita Dello Sbarba, Mijin Kim, Odile Foehl, Dennis Alexander Schmitz; Sounddesign: Timm Roller
A co-production of DRAMA Köln e.V. and MIRA with the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and the Alte Feuerwache Köln.
Supported by: Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Alte Feuerwache Köln, Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung
Picture: Julia Franken
Künstlerische Leitung: Philine Velhagen, Julia Riera; Tanz/Performance: Margherita Dello Sbarba, Mijin Kim, Odile Foehl, Dennis Alexander Schmitz; Sounddesign: Timm Roller
A co-production of DRAMA Köln e.V. and MIRA with the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and the Alte Feuerwache Köln.
Supported by: Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Alte Feuerwache Köln, Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung
Picture: Julia Franken
Dans Kapot OP STRAAT (2023/2024)
Dans Kapot is an interractive, vibrant performance that played in the streets of Brussels, bringing music to the neighbourhoods, smiles in people’s hearts and sweat in their bodies. It brings to life the power of dance along with music, shared with a live audience in an everyday setting. It creates a game
with the audience, which awakens the playfulness in adults and children like, creating a communcal celebration.
It blends the uplifting and genre mixing music of the band with the energetic and extrovert performance of the dancers, along with audience interactive games.
with the audience, which awakens the playfulness in adults and children like, creating a communcal celebration.
It blends the uplifting and genre mixing music of the band with the energetic and extrovert performance of the dancers, along with audience interactive games.
El Cuco Projekt
MATA DORA
(2023/2024)
Two cows, Mata and Dora, face each other on the tennis court and play tennis. But who actually understands and explains the rules? As the primordial cow and ancestor of today's domestic cattle, the extinct aurochs was the model for the deceptively real animal masks that El Cuco Projekt made for the new production "MATA DORA" true to life and with great attention to detail. The aurochs is to the modern cow what the wolf is to the dog. However, in the process of domesticating the world, man domesticated himself first and foremost. Now the primeval cows show us in a tennis match how absurd it is to be a human being living according to our present rules
Mira Projekt
MIRA 11_SHIFT
(2023)
As a virtual assistant, artificial intelligence takes decisions from our everyday lives. Can AI also help create art?
MIRA 11_shift explores the interplay between humans and technology in dance. Movement suggestions from an application developed for and with MIRA are at the center of the choreographic process. Contrasts between personal and anonymous, dispossessing and appropriating, and human and inhuman are explored in a performance in which the dancers' physicality is juxtaposed with the infinite possibilities of AI. In a unified language of movement, the individual thus manifests itself in detail.
picture: Sonia Franken
El Cuco Projekt
CAPTCHA
(2022)
winner of the Cologne dance award 2022
In the (dance) performance “CAPTCHA” by El Cuco Projekt, a group of “bats” shows us that supposed “artificial intelligence” (AI) is not a human invention, but can always be found in all kinds of networks and structures in nature: In the roots of trees, in insect colonies, in the intricate elements of climate – and yes, even in bat colonies. El Cuco Project’s whimsical animal hybrids lead the audience into a terrain where future and past melt into a single moment. As hybrid beings, they organise and disorganise themselves, absurdly mixing and juxtaposing the elements of nature with human technologies, habits and forms of communication. If AI algorithms evolve and decide for themselves, what form would they take? Would they follow linear forms like those of an Excel spreadsheet or Ikea furniture? Or would they follow the chaotic geometry of spreading liquids, the shape of galaxies or the roots of trees?
picture: Sonia Franken
In the (dance) performance “CAPTCHA” by El Cuco Projekt, a group of “bats” shows us that supposed “artificial intelligence” (AI) is not a human invention, but can always be found in all kinds of networks and structures in nature: In the roots of trees, in insect colonies, in the intricate elements of climate – and yes, even in bat colonies. El Cuco Project’s whimsical animal hybrids lead the audience into a terrain where future and past melt into a single moment. As hybrid beings, they organise and disorganise themselves, absurdly mixing and juxtaposing the elements of nature with human technologies, habits and forms of communication. If AI algorithms evolve and decide for themselves, what form would they take? Would they follow linear forms like those of an Excel spreadsheet or Ikea furniture? Or would they follow the chaotic geometry of spreading liquids, the shape of galaxies or the roots of trees?
picture: Sonia Franken
El Cuco Projekt
CASSANDRA
(2023)
She is a lizard and a pro in letting you know about your future. With a little help from her cards and your imagination she will make the room shake and create an unforgettable seance. Her reputation is your guarantee.
Yana Novotorova
RICIRCLING
(2022)
How can energy be made manifest through body and dance? How is it transferred and transformed between bodies? Recircling investigates the notion of energy from the perspective of physics, focusing on the principles of renewable energy production. Against the backdrop of the global depletion of energy resources, the performance uses artistic means to make the processes of energy transmission, transformation, as well as exhaustion tangible.
Khadidiatou Bangoura
FÜHL DIE WELT DURCH MEINE HAUT
(2022)
What emotions does everyday racism trigger? What are the historical origins of everyday racism? How does it manifest in our everyday life and how do we talk about it? What coping mechanisms do the affected have? 'FÜHL DIE WELT DURCH MEINE HAUT - Observations on everyday racism' explores these questions through dance while offering a change of perspective based on a thought-experiment.
Ceren Oran
THE URGE
(2021)
Moves between bed and cupboard, a classic variation in front of the kitchenette. Release on the balcony. Home videos from the lockdown in Spring 2020. Soloistic. Pandemic. Uploaded to social media. There are all testimonies to the urge of the dancers and choreographers to dance and remain visible. Ceren Oran uses these finds for her performance “ The Urge” and takes it out onto the streets.
The premiere of the The Urge took Place simultaneously in Munich Berlin and Cologne on may 8 th at the DANCE 2021 Festival. Due to the pandemic restrictions, it debuted as a digital livestream.
picture: Ester Joy
The premiere of the The Urge took Place simultaneously in Munich Berlin and Cologne on may 8 th at the DANCE 2021 Festival. Due to the pandemic restrictions, it debuted as a digital livestream.
picture: Ester Joy
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