double bill
Restraint - Lina Gómez
In „Restraint“ the dancer Julek Kreutzer sticks to a specific movement quality, an unceasing effort bound by a narrow space. Spurred on by Michelangelo Contini’s drums, the movement works on maintaining a condition that indiscernibly transforms. „Restraint“ is a continuous outburst of energy, where music and dance persist on supporting each other, crafting an inter and codependent vibrant space.
Idea, concept, choreography: Lina Gómez
Dance, co-choreography: Julek Kreutzer
Live music, artistic collaboration: Michelangelo Contini
Lighting design: Bruno Pocheron
Costume: Sandra Ernst
Dramaturgical advice: Thomas Schaupp
A production by Lina Gómez. A co-production of ada Studio & Bühne für zeitgenössischen Tanz Berlin and Sophiensaele Berlin 2018.
RAPEFLOWER – Hana Umeda
In the tradition of the classical Japanese Jiutamai dance from the early 19th century, which is only performed by women, the body is used simultaneously for storytelling, seduction and as armour for defence. But can this dance, which is characterised by patriarchal Japanese culture, become a space for emancipation and healing?
How can one's own experience of rape be located between the taboo and pornographisation of the subject? RAPEFLOWER is an investigation that takes place in one's own body. It is the body, not the discourse, in which the experience of sexual violence - both one's own, inherited and learned - is interwoven with defence and survival strategies. This is a story about rape understood as a condition, not just as a single event.
Concept, director, choreography, text, performance: Hana Umeda
Dramaturgy, Collaboration on the text: Weronika Murek
Video: Martyna Miller
Music: Olga Mysłowska
Light direction: Aleksandr Prowaliński
Collaboration, Outside eye: Joanna Nuckowska
Production: Olga Kozińska
Note: The content of this performance can be emotionally and psychologically challenging to engage with for some audience members. It will make use of complete nudity and contains non-explicit material related to rape culture.
The project is produced by KOMUNA WARSZAWA, selected as part of the Open Call for Performance 2024.
Research for the performance was conducted as part of the "SoDA" MA program within the framework of HZT Berlin, Univeristy of Arts Berlin & Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts Berlin and the "Thinking Through the Museum" residency, Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union.
Duration: 30 min + ca 25 min Pause + 50 min
Language: English
