Das Zusammentreffen von zwei Persönlichkeiten ist wie die Mischung zweier verschiedener chemischer Körper:
Tritt eine Verbindung überhaupt ein, sind beide gewandelt.“ C. G. Jung
Tritt eine Verbindung überhaupt ein, sind beide gewandelt.“ C. G. Jung
AMALGAM SoloFest is a Platform for emerging and experienced Performers to share and develop SOLO works and their process of creation. A series of Performance Events between Butoh and Contemporary Dance.
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AMALGAM SoloFest is an event series at the border between Butoh and Contemporary Dance. A collective of Solo Artists (Butoh dancers, Contemporary dancers and Inbetween Improvisers) are coming together to showcase their most recent work or share existing work in process of development. The common goal is to share the excitement and difficulties of creating Solo work with each other and a wider audience, and to open a dialog on contemporary expression, performative power and individual authenticity. Looking at oppositions and similarities AMALGAM SoloFest tries to bring people and styles closer together and create a space for mixing identities...
AMALGAM SoloFest is a platform for performers to exchange with eachother the process of creating Solo Works, in order to receive constructive feedback and inspire further development of their pieces. Working as Solo Artists is often a fullfilling yet lonely path. With this platform we wish to create a collective space of support and collaboration, a community that encourages personal individuality and artistic autheniticty. A strong focus and aim of this collective is to investigate the merging point between different identities, cultures and forms, specifically looking at how individual artists from the fields of contemporary dance and butoh, working with choreography or improvisation, create the INBETWEEN Dance.
This platform serves as an opportunity to open a dialogue between movement practitioners and stimulate research towards an amalgam of expression methods. Its future purpose is to generate a series of regular events in which various performing aritsts of all levels can showcase their Solo Work, and engage with eachother and the audience in constructive feedback sessions.
PROTOTYPE LAUNCH: 27 Juni 2018 @ Acker Stadt Palast
more info also on: www.ackerstadtpalast.de/AMALGAM-Kollektives-Festival-fur-Solo-Tanzperformance
AMALGAM CREW:
2018-2019
- T. S. VLAD (Romania) - Audio-Visual Performance Artist and dancer based in Berlin mixing together visual art, film, physical theatre, butoh and contemporary dance into site-specific interventions, queer identities and culture collages.
- MACO (Japan) - actress and Butoh artist based in Berlin. Trained at Butoh Laboratory in Japan under the renowned Butoh Master Kazuo Ohno. Co-founder of the Theater-Butoh company 4RUDE.
- DANIEL ADAMS (Mexico) - Berlin based Performing Artist, freelance dancer and percussionist combining physical theatre with contemporary dance, yoga practices, acrobatics, capoeira and contact improvisation.
- EVGENIA CHETVERTKOVA (Russia) - dancer, choreographer and performer with background from ballet, folk dances, butoh, contemporary dance and improvisational forms of dance and theatre, now studying Solo Dance Authorship Master Programme at HZT Berlin.
- ROBERTA PUPOTTO (Italy) - Berlin based dancer, performer and choreographer with a Modern dance and Classical Ballet background. Founding member in “Chaim Gebber-Open Scene” and teacher of The Conscious Body System.Paragraph.
- CARMEN LAFRAN (Italy) - Berlin based visual artist, writer and performer with a philosophy studies background, combinig elements from butoh dance, painting and an investigation of the possibilities and limits of both body and language expressions...
- ANNI LATTUNEN (Finland) - is a movement artist and stage performer, researcher and a teacher, working and creating as an independent artist in Berlin. In her practice she combines elements from contemporary dance, somatic disciplines, meditation techniques and eastern movement traditions.
- ELISA OSBORNE (VZ/US) - Elisa Osborne, Venezuelan born and American raised has been performing, teaching, creating and investigating dance in New York City for 20 years. Human interactions and the unveiling of the self are two motivations in her investigations.
- DAMARIS HÄRTL (Gemany) - ist ADK Pädagogin, Butoh-Tänzerin, Masseurin und Musikerin und leitet seit 2002 eigene Workshops.
OTHER ARTISTS & GUESTS:
Kanon Chan, Daniel Paiva de Miranda, Lea Uria Garcia, Xxxenia, Yuko Kaseki, David Garcia Garcia, Julianne Danapati, Madleine White, Jesper Munk, Stefano Taiuti, Tone Haldrup Lorenzen, Kosmosuna, Valentin Tzin, Daniel Williams, Fabio Dornas, Eva Georgitsopoulou, Anderson Feliciano, Kae & Kazu Uchihashi, Sofia Karagiorgou, Yuri Shimanoka, Rowan Hamwood, Enzo Bloio, Iro Grigoriadi, Yoshiaki Sakai, Orland Verdu, Alex Zampini, Ismaera Takeo Ishii, Marissa Niederhauser, Lorena Izquiero Aparicio, Kid Ivar, Julia Andro, Marie Takahashi, Pokimala, Clement Couderc, Wild Anima Music, Stefano Meucci, Pryadarshini Ohol, Britta Kerger, Marie Kassapian, Manuel Marcos, Lottie Sebes, Bridge Markland, Ana Kavalis & many more...
2018-2019
- T. S. VLAD (Romania) - Audio-Visual Performance Artist and dancer based in Berlin mixing together visual art, film, physical theatre, butoh and contemporary dance into site-specific interventions, queer identities and culture collages.
- MACO (Japan) - actress and Butoh artist based in Berlin. Trained at Butoh Laboratory in Japan under the renowned Butoh Master Kazuo Ohno. Co-founder of the Theater-Butoh company 4RUDE.
- DANIEL ADAMS (Mexico) - Berlin based Performing Artist, freelance dancer and percussionist combining physical theatre with contemporary dance, yoga practices, acrobatics, capoeira and contact improvisation.
- EVGENIA CHETVERTKOVA (Russia) - dancer, choreographer and performer with background from ballet, folk dances, butoh, contemporary dance and improvisational forms of dance and theatre, now studying Solo Dance Authorship Master Programme at HZT Berlin.
- ROBERTA PUPOTTO (Italy) - Berlin based dancer, performer and choreographer with a Modern dance and Classical Ballet background. Founding member in “Chaim Gebber-Open Scene” and teacher of The Conscious Body System.Paragraph.
- CARMEN LAFRAN (Italy) - Berlin based visual artist, writer and performer with a philosophy studies background, combinig elements from butoh dance, painting and an investigation of the possibilities and limits of both body and language expressions...
- ANNI LATTUNEN (Finland) - is a movement artist and stage performer, researcher and a teacher, working and creating as an independent artist in Berlin. In her practice she combines elements from contemporary dance, somatic disciplines, meditation techniques and eastern movement traditions.
- ELISA OSBORNE (VZ/US) - Elisa Osborne, Venezuelan born and American raised has been performing, teaching, creating and investigating dance in New York City for 20 years. Human interactions and the unveiling of the self are two motivations in her investigations.
- DAMARIS HÄRTL (Gemany) - ist ADK Pädagogin, Butoh-Tänzerin, Masseurin und Musikerin und leitet seit 2002 eigene Workshops.
OTHER ARTISTS & GUESTS:
Kanon Chan, Daniel Paiva de Miranda, Lea Uria Garcia, Xxxenia, Yuko Kaseki, David Garcia Garcia, Julianne Danapati, Madleine White, Jesper Munk, Stefano Taiuti, Tone Haldrup Lorenzen, Kosmosuna, Valentin Tzin, Daniel Williams, Fabio Dornas, Eva Georgitsopoulou, Anderson Feliciano, Kae & Kazu Uchihashi, Sofia Karagiorgou, Yuri Shimanoka, Rowan Hamwood, Enzo Bloio, Iro Grigoriadi, Yoshiaki Sakai, Orland Verdu, Alex Zampini, Ismaera Takeo Ishii, Marissa Niederhauser, Lorena Izquiero Aparicio, Kid Ivar, Julia Andro, Marie Takahashi, Pokimala, Clement Couderc, Wild Anima Music, Stefano Meucci, Pryadarshini Ohol, Britta Kerger, Marie Kassapian, Manuel Marcos, Lottie Sebes, Bridge Markland, Ana Kavalis & many more...
Sept 30/18
StrassenPerformance – SOLOdancers join the DANCE! Okt 25 /18 - BARBICHE Kunstraum Feminist Investigation of Power Nov 24/18 - K77 Butemporary among squatters + Special Guests Jan 18-20/19 – Acker Stadt Palast AMALGAM 3Day festival Journey Apr 27-28/19 - Acker Stadt Palast AMALGAM SoloFest Anniversary Mai 29- Jun 2/19 - Performing Arts Festival Berlin AMALGAM Butemporary Caravan & Impro Marathon |