Published 18 June, 2024
It’s that time of the year again!
This year’s edition of the Wiesenburg Sommerfest.ival will take place June 28-30 at the Tanzhalle and Werkhalle Wiesenburg.
We are happy to share a reach program of performances, installations, concerts, lecture performances and shiatsu sessions!
Among other things Studies on Infinity #2 – Nudity and Landscape by Isabelle Schad will be presented as well as the new format HANDS DANCES.
Studies on Infinity #2 – Nudity and Landscape is a further iteration of a long-term research into movement materials and their potential for infinite variation. Drawing on principles anchored in Zen, somatics, qi gong, aikido and breathing techniques, the choreographic material will unfold its power as a durational installation performance.
HANDS DANCES is a new format for the transmission of practice conceived by Isabelle Schad. HANDS DANCES are a choreographic tribute to the agility and functionality of hands as well as a celebration of the sensory perception of the world through music and dance. HANDS DANCES are based on a series of principles. These serve as guidelines for choreographies to be developed by fellow dancers and choreographers.
Looking forward to see you at the Wiesenburg and celebrate summer together!
Sommerfest.ival 2024
Friday 28 June:
18:00 – Mirror of Creation Process, group exhibition | Werkhalle
18:00 – Mehr Licht [mir so schlecht] – Bruno Pocheron & Madison Pomarico Installation | Atelier Tanzhalle
18:00-20:00 – Studies on Infinity #2 – Nudity and Landscape – Isabelle Schad,
durational performance | Tanzhalle
21:00 – Hands Dances – likabari & temp-illusion, Yen Lee & Arantxa Martinez, Viviana Defazio & David Kummer & Gábor Hartyáni), Tanzhalle
Saturday 29 June:
15:00-16:45 – Shiatsu Garden with Frederike Doffin / Shiatsu Tanzhalle with Viviana Defazio, David Kummer und Isabelle Schad
17:00 – TarNung, Hanna Sybille Müller, movement research | Tanzhalle
18:00-20:00 – Studies on Infinity #2 – Nudity and Landscape – Isabelle Schad
durational performance | Tanzhalle
20:30 – Solo Cello – Gábor Hartyáni, concert | Atelier Tanzhalle
21:00 – SCENSOR – IIII – su dance110, concert performance | Tanzhalle
22:00 – Chill out or die – Emma Juliard & Arnaud (Raoul) Lesage | Tanzhalle
Sunday 30 June:
15:00 – 17:30 Shiatsu Garden with Frederike Doffin
16:00 – Gabi Dumkow, soprano | Rampe/Werkhalle
17:00 – TarNung – Hanna Sybille Müller, movement research | Tanzhalle
17:45 – High Fidelity – Johanna Ackva, reading | garden
19:00 – The Electric Body – Mariagiulia Serantoni & Andrea Parolin | Tanzhalle
20:00 – Classical Sunday & Hands Dances – Shasta Ellenbogen & Ensemble & Manuel Lindner & Isabelle Schad | Tanzhalle
Ongoing:
Mehr Licht [mir so schlecht] – Bruno Pocheron & Madison Pomarico Installation | Atelier Tanzhalle
Mirror of Creation Process, Group Exhibition | Werkhalle
Culinary break, vegetarian/vegan buffet and drinks / Tanzhalle Garden
Full information here
Venues: Tanzhalle & Werkhalle Wiesenburg: Wiesenstraße 55, 13357 Berlin
Tickets: Pay what you can (recommended donation 5-15 €)
Sommerfest.ival 2024 is supported by the production location funding of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion – Department of Culture
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Published 7 June, 2024
We are looking forward to the premiere of Handarbeit tonight in the frame of OSTEN Festival.
This is a collaborative work with Nora Mertes, Josephine Findeisen, Claudia Tomasi and a group of 12 women from Bitterfeld-Wolfen. A huge piece of research into our hands, work, dances and many other related topics has emerged from a participatory process, which has led to deep, touching encounters.
The work will be also shown in Berlin: on Sunday 16 June at the Humboldtforum.
Pic: Judith Paletta, all rights reserved
Hands that push, hands that pull. Hands that grasp. Hands that fold. Hands that hold each other. Our life story shapes our bodies. Personal and collective experiences are inscribed in our posture and movements. Can these experiences also be expressed through dance?
The choreographer Isabelle Schad and the dancers/choreographers Josephine Findeisen, Claudia Tomasi and the sculptor Nora Mertes, together with women from Bitterfeld-Wolfen, explore the tense relationship between self and world in dance: the central question here is the concept of subjectivity within a collective moving body that can only function as a whole: How can we perceive ourselves as part of a larger whole and what does this mean as a choreographic and visual practice as well as an attitude that one adopts?
Based on movement principles such as weight shifting, stretching and breathing techniques, professional and amateur dancers initially develop small sketches that focus on their own perception of the hands and, in resonance with their own story, tell something about society, being human and aging.
Gradually, a choreography and videography unfolds in the field of tension between inside and outside, intimacy and community, hand and labour, grasping and letting go, miniature and overall sequence.
CREDITS
Konzept, Choreografie und Realisation: Isabelle Schad
Konzept und Realisation Video und Raum: Nora Mertes
Konzeptuelle und choreografische Begleitung, Realisation: Josephine Findeisen, Claudia Tomasi
Mit: Christine Baßin, Heike Faber, Josephine Findeisen, Dorothee Fischer, Rita Gehlhar, Katrin Jarczewski, Christine Koschmieder, Katrin Stephan, Gudrun Trommer, Claudia Tomasi, Bärbel Verhooren, Sieglinde Walkow, Diana Wesser, Edda Westphal, Veronika Heisig (Humboldt Forum), Johanna Ackva (Humboldt Forum).
Kamera: Alberto Stievanin
Lichtdesign: Max Krispin
Sound: Damir Simunovic, in Zusammenarbeit mit Ivan Bartsch, Nora Mertes und Isabelle Schad
Live Sound Mixing: Ivan Bartsch
Eine Koproduktion von Isabelle Schad, Festival OSTEN/Kulturpark e.V. und der Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss. Die Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss wird gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien aufgrund eines Beschlusses des deutschen Bundestags. In Zusammenarbeit mit Frauen helfen Frauen e.V. / Frauenzentrum Wolfen.
Published 10 April, 2024
The fruitful collaboration with Theater o.N. and dancer Aya Toraiwa continues and the next premiere is approaching: on 28 April we present Yuki Onna, a Japanese fairy tale about a mysterious woman with long black hair who dives into the cold snow and invites all the children (and adults) to play with the wind. A warm invitation to an “all ages” dance experience!
-Sunday 28 April, 4 pm + Monday 29 April, 10 am at the Tanzhalle Wiesenburg
-Friday 3 May, 10 am + Saturday 4 May and Sunday 5 May, 4 pm at Theater o.N.
Click here for further info and tickets.
Pic: Isabelle Schad, all rights reserved
Published 22 March, 2024
The last two weeks have been incredibly rich and intense in practice and research within our mobile ensemble. We have started the OPS trainings with a focus on aikido and sword, before having Master Gerd Walter coming in for the week-end 16/17.3 giving us an aikido intensive workshop. He has been coming to the Tanzhalle Wiesenburg – our precious space being transformed for this occasion to a mobile Dojo – for the very first time. It has been a great experience, to be continued with.
In the past few days we have continued our open practice sessions with sword training, shaitsu and some opening research around a new project called Hands Dances.
Another inspiring workshop on aikido/sword has been held by Master Jochen Knau on thursday 21.3 followed by further sessions dedicated to our hands studies and shiatsu.
Thank you everyone for the enthusiasm, dedication and willingness to embark on this ongoing research journey together.
Pic. David Kummer, all rights reserved