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• Dance performance + Artist Talk
• light
• text

• Sa., 08.04.2017, 19:00

Artist talk following 'Abandon Human'

Sharon Smith, Katie Duck and the light designer and visual artist Emese Csornai come together to create a spectacle event around the title Abandon Human. The artists discover text, movement, strategies for public inter action, sound score and visual light designs... After the performance we will talk with the artists about their four day creation process at the Dock 11.

• 1In your eyes I see myself as a stranger.
• 2 Anne Pantaleon, Theaterwissenschaftlerin, Germanistin

Katie and Sharon have known and worked with each other off and on since the mid 90”s. They share a fondness for keeping the pieces they do in real time with an edge towards an anti hierarchical artists role with public’s. How did they prepare for the four day rehearsal? How did they work together at Dock 11? After the show we`ll get in talk with the artists.

About the venue:

Dock 11

The factory level of Dock 11 in Kastanienallee in Prenzlauer Berg is a rehearsals room, teaching studio and dance stage in one. The stage programme has interdisciplinary supplements such as theatre, performance, literature, music, visual art, film and club art – however the main focal point of every performance is on purely dance elements. Together with its other premises in EDEN***** in Berlin-Pankow, Dock 11 has established itself as an important part of the Berlin dance scene. The unique combination of teaching, rehearsal and stage generates an exciting change of perspectives in both the artists and pupils, as well as among the audience.  (source: visitberlin.de)

About the performance:

Abandon Human

'Abandon Human' is a correspondence that revolves around a discussion between Sharon and Katie about being women, mums and artists in this time. It will be revealed over the period in the four day rehearsal process in April with. Their process is tight to loose, allowing for strict rules and strategies in rehearsal focused on the development of raw materials and then played loose in the performance setting.

About the artists:

Emdes Csornai, Sharon Smith, Katie Duck

Katie Duck has been a professional performer and maker since the early 1970’s. She has been a influential figure in how she has placed improvisation as an intricate element in composition and performance internationally, inspiring generations of performers, musicians and performance makers. She set up the acclaimed Gruppo in Italy in 1979 and toured Europe with a host of productions. She was head of choreography at Dartington College of arts (senior lecturer) in the late 1980’s. 
www.katieduck.com
http://katieduck.com/improvisa<wbr />tion-workshop-weekend-dock-11-<wbr />berlin/

Emese Csornai is a theatre professional with a visual art background. She is mainly specialised in installation, performance and light design. She has studied architecture in Budapest and got a bachelor of audiovisual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2009.
www.emesecsornai.com 

Sharon Smith is a performance maker and a performer. She teaches, writes and lives in Berlin. She is a part of the arts collective Gob Squad and has been collaborating with them since 2007. From 1994-2005 she worked with Felicity Croydon and earlier also with Phil Collins in Max Factory. She also learned much over these years from studying and performing with improvisation artist Katie Duck. 
www.sharonsmith.org