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• Dance Performance + Audience Talk
• birds flocking
• communication
• borders

• Sa., 09.11.2019, 19:00

Audience Talk following 'Elsewhere'

Elsewhere is a duet dance performance by Daniele Albanese and Eva Karczag, but also a frame in which to reflect upon a space that is being somewhere else and yet here. It’s an inquiry into the invisible communication between the dancers, between dancers and space, between organization and freedom. In the audience talk there is time to talk about invisible communication, dissemination of thoughts and sensations in the space rathar than statements in the space.

• 1Photo © Andrea Macchia
• 2 Mmakgosi Kgabi, Dancer, choreographer

The duet represents an evolution of 'Birds Flocking Project' that condenses shared researches and creative processes arisen from the fascination with the complex trajectories that flocks of birds create. After the performance we can talk about the translation of abstract ideas in bodily movement, about the encounter of the two performer and choreographer or anything the audience wants to share and ask.

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)

www.dock11-berlin.de  

About the Performance

Elsewhere

Elsewhere is a performance, but also a frame in which to reflect upon a space that is being somewhere else and yet here. It’s an inquiry into the invisible communication between the dancers, between dancers and space, between organization and freedom.The duet represents an evolution of Birds Flocking Project that condenses shared researches and creative processes arisen from the fascination with the complex trajectories that flocks of birds create.Choreography confronts the opposite polarities of structure/freedom, form/direction to define each action, while the intricacies of movement collide with the impossibility of a precise notation.The concepts of flying and migration are a starting point to unveil the mingled imagery of our contemporary world made of different languages and contexts, where liquid borders foster exchange.

About the Performer

Daniele Albanese and Eva Karczag

The first encounter with Eva Karczag dates back in 1993, when Daniele Albanese started attending the European Dance Development Center in Arnhem where she is was a staff-teacher. After more than twenty years they decided to embark on a shared path of creation and research that led to Birds Flocking Project in 2017 and subsequently evolved into the duet Elsewhere. Eva Karczag is an Independent dance artist, educator and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Her work combines improvisation practices and various disciplines such as Ideokinesis, Tai-Chi e Qi Gong, as well as Alexander Technique whose concepts constantly shape her practice. She performed all over the world both with her own projects and as a member of some of the most renowned companies in the field of experimental dance, such as Strider/Richard Alston (1973-75), Dance Exchange (1976-79) and Trisha Brown Dance Company (1979-85). Daniele Albanese graduated from EDDC in Arnhem (The Netherlands). He studied with Steve Paxton, Eva Karczag, Lisa Kraus, Benoit Lachambre and worked as a dancer with Peter Pleyer, Tony Thatcher, Charlotte Zerbey, Martin Butler, Mawson-Raffalt + Falulder-Mawson, Jennifer Lacey, Virgilio Sieni, Nigel Charnock, Karine Ponties, Enzo Cosimi. In 2002, he founded his dance company STALKER.