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• Dance Performance + Audience Talk
• live Electro Acoustic Soundscape

• Fr., 27.03.2020, 20:00

Audience Talk following 'Akin' – FÄLLT AUS!

'Akin' is a multi-disciplined composition relating to transience and belonging, overarching a connection from birth to life to death. By mediums of performance art, butoh dance and live electro-acoustic soundscapes the piece reveals scenes interpreting boundaries, connection, rituals and interrelation between human beings.

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The multidisciplinary collaboration consists of the electronic musicians Ravenative (Ariel William Orah) and Samaquias Lorta with the dancers Riako Napitupulu and Theresa Lekberg. Topics discussed in the audience talk could be the use of improvisation and intuition between the performers, defining and implementing an artistic vision or the musical developments with choreographers. Theresa Lekberg will give a short bodywork/meditation example to show the audience that it is accessible to everyone and that this is what has built our form of cooperation for 'Akin'.

About the venue

ACUD Theatre

Since 1990, The ACUD Theater has been a place for innovative and experimental work that builds bridges between disciplines in the performing arts. It's Berlin Mitte district home offers 120 performances annually in a 70-seat theater, that include dance, physical theater, butoh, and mixed experimental performing forms. The large majority of ACUD's shows are new productions, Berlin premieres, or world premieres.An independent theater, ACUD supports national and international theater pieces, making daring experimentation possible. ACUD organizes festivals, initiates international exchanges, multicultural events, facilitates community engagement through theater, and hosts literary readings, workshops, master classes, and laboratories.

About the Dance Performance

Akin

Akin is a multi-disciplined composition relating to transience and belonging, overarching a connection from birth to life to death. By mediums of performance art, butoh dance and live electro-acoustic soundscapes the piece reveals scenes interpreting boundaries, connection, rituals and interrelation between human beings; an intimate expansion between love and pain.White creatures in pure and minimalistic images are giving a symbolic meaning to the immaterial and universal. Performers continuously transform, led by characteristics of the primitive, animalistic, melancholic, delicate and sacral embodiment; moods shifting from one second to another. We all play out these images every day, hidden and visible, all relatable.

AKIN – Art See Ocean Gallery (https://www.artseeocean.com/akin) 

About the performance collective

Theresa Lekberg, Riako Napitupulu, Ariel William Orah & Samaquias Lorta

Every artist is coming from a different cultural background and has grown up in different countries – Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Sweden and USA. Three performers are based in Berlin and one in Stockholm. They are connected by their passion to challenge the boundaries of confinement and their joy of collaborating interdisciplinary. The fragile frame of improvisation gives the performers their own free self-expression, creating an urgency, a life nerve and something totally new by performing live. Integrating the audience, time and space by live electro-acoustic soundscapes and radical human transformations by Performance art and Butoh dance. AKIN might be a door opener to a new space and form for a new boundary crossing - a new belonging - coming home with being yourself and the beauty of crossing boundaries by art. 

Riako Napitupulu is a german-indonesian-japanese painter, performance artist, art therapist and educator.

Ariel William Orah is a Berlin-based indonesian artist who explores themes related to identity, memory and scarcity.

Samaquias Lorta engage music with an academic approach influenced by his young start to a professional career as a teacher of cello, music composition, and dance.