soundance festival berlin

As we drove short short horizon-lines

Stalin Blake, Claire Huber, Filipa Bavčević

As we drove short short horizon-lines

PROGRAM soundance festival berlin:

Thur, June 15, 2023, 7 pm
GESTI – eine Trilogie
Imola Nagy & Mirjam – Luise Münzel

Fr, June 16, 2023, 7 pm
Rooting
Naïma Mazic & Maria Coma

Sat, June 17, 2023, 7 pm
Wind up
Maria Colusi, Roberta Ricci & Edgardo Rudnitzky

Sun, June 18, 2023, 7 pm
As we drove short short horizon-lines [text below]
Stalin Blake, Claire Huber, Filipa Bavčević

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As we drove short short horizon-lines
Stalin Blake, Claire Huber, Filipa Bavčević
Sun, June 18, 2023, 7 pm

As we drove short short horizon-lines is a sonic performance that travels across choreography, oral poetry and music. Thought as a living poem with many voices, languages, instruments and bodies, it is an intimate piece: it invites the audience to « listen » to the sensitive inflections of geographic and musical lines that go from the Middle Eastern regions, across the Balkan mountains, to Western Europe. On such lines, where heterogeneous territories are closely adjacent to each other, the piece seeks to articulate differences – be they of artistic or cultural expressions – in a way that does not mix them. A way of doing that is also proper to the so-called Balkan rhythms as they juxtapose Ottoman and West-European influences, without blending them into polyrhythms, but rather by building small bridges across huge mountains.

Concept, text, direction: Claire Huber
Creation, performance: Stalin Blake, Claire Huber, Filipa Bavčević
Costumes: Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin
Scenography: Stalin Blake, Claire Huber
Lightdesign: Emmanuel Desmyter
Production: Inflexions
Photo: cahayaeleven act festival

Coproductions: The Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (Hrvatski institut za pokret i ples), Teatroskop- Southeastern European performing art network
Residencies support: CDCN Toulouse-La place de la danse, Honolulu-Nantes, Théâtre Marni, BUDA, KAAP, STUK, De school van Gaasbeek, Balkan Dance Academy Slovenia, Garage Performing art center, DEVIR/CAPA , Stanica-Station for contemporary dance, Zagreb Dance Center, Mediterranean Dance Center
With the support of Teatroskop, F.W.B., W.B.I., Flemish community, I-Portunus (Creative Europe), Ministry of culture of the Croatian Republic

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The seventh soundance festival berlin from June 15-18, 2023 celebrates fine nuances, unexpected turns and magical moments in the here and now of dance and live music on four evenings. Musical gestures meet choreography, structures of notation connect dance and music, the unfamiliar becomes audible, filigree landscapes open up in the sound of voices.

Our new pilot format soundance expanded in dialogue with international Berlin dancer-choreographers focuses on their artistic collaboration with musicians in their own choreographic works.

On May 12/13, soundance expanded will accompany the German premiere of the duo performance Foreland - Bach and Britten by dancer-choreographer Nitsan Margaliot in collaboration with Amsterdam cellist Isaac Lottman at St. Matthew's Church.

More information soundance-festival.de/en

The soundance festival berlin 2023 is a co-production of b.arts.u - berlin arts united and DOCK ART. DOCK ART is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.