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• Dance performance + Artist Talk
• FAKE Company
• account
• improvisation

• Fr., 03.08.2018, 19:00

Artist talk following 'Reckonings + Antidotes'

An eclectic improvisation performance created by FAKE Company. Gathered by Kathleen Hermesdorf, FAKE Company is a container and instigator for artistic freedom within creative collaboration, embedded and embodied in ongoing practices of improvisation in dance, theater, music and visual art. Meet the artists after the show.

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• 2 Suzanne Muller, Freie Dramaturgin und Kulturmanagerin

FAKE Company is an international arrangement of performers, an intentionally fluid and flexible group, who discovered their attraction to each other at Ponderosa in Germany. Gathered by Kathleen Hermesdorf of ALTERNATIVA in San Francisco. Meet the artists after the show and find out more about FAKE Company and the collaboration between diferent 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

Reckonings + Antidotes

FAKE Company
An eclectic, international group of dance, performance, music and visual artists. Drawn together and pseudo-directed by Kathleen Hermesdorf [ALTERNATIVA/San Francisco]. Begun from mutual recognition at Ponderosa in the countryside near Berlin.

About the artist

Kathleen Hermesdorf

Kathleen Hermesdorf is the Director of ALTERNATIVA. She has been dancing in San Francisco since 1991. Hermesdorf gained invaluable experience as a member of Bebe Miller Company, Contraband/Sara Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. She also co-directed Hermesdorf & Wells Dance Company with Scott Wells and Collusion with Stephanie Maher, with whom she co-directs PORCH summerschool at Ponderosa in Germany. Hermesdorf teaches, performs, improvises, creates, curates and mentors locally, nationally and internationally.