Isabelle Schad / Good Work Productions

Unturtled#4

by Isabelle Schad and Laurent Goldring

Presented by CounterPULSE and the Goethe Institute

15. + 16. 03. 2013 8pm

CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 944103

„Unturtled“ might suggest a removal of the shell from the turtle’s back to reveal what is hidden beneath. The work of Isabelle Schad and Laurent Goldring, however, doesn’t allow us to peep under the cover. On the contrary, the body is disappearing almost completely underneath the moving accessory that nevertheless exposes its movements as materiality. It appears almost as if the clothes are moving by themselves; in elongations, expansions and contractions, condensations flatulences and tightenings produced by the puffs of the blouse, which seemingly take away the body’s own movement impulses. „Unturtled“ does not ’unwrap’ the body, but initiates a deliberate confusion around the question of where movement starts and its separation from the controlling subject. The observer’s eye imagines body parts, which are responsible for the respective sequences and then is subsequently lead astray. The body presents itself as an imaginary one. Except for the legs and head it becomes invisible under its shell and allows only for presumptions upon its appearances.
Susanne Foellmer

Unturtled Artist Talk

Presented by CounterPULSE and the Goethe Institute
with Jess Curtis, Keith Hennessy, Julie Phelps, Isabelle Schad & Laurent Goldring
In the Artist Talk on March 13, Isabelle Schad, Laurent Goldring, Julie Phelps and guests will speak about Conceptual Dance in the Berlin & San Francisco Dance Scenes, from its roots in the 60s and 70s in the US and its evolution through artists on both sides of the ocean.

13. 03. 2013 8pm
CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 944103

Three questions to Isabelle Schad about the idea of the Sommerfest.ival

Tanzhalle Wiesenburg and the Humboldthain – venues of the festival together with the Werkhalle Wiesenburg – have been a home and a refuge during the pandemic. How have you inhabited them in the past months?

Very soon after the second lockdown began, I started to invite members of my team – dancers, light and sound designers, anyone who wanted – to join me in the park at Humboldthain for regular training sessions in the morning.
It’s been a way of staying together: for oneself inside the pandemic, during which distance v. contact has become the central change, and among ourselves as a team and people who like one another.
It’s become a regular practice in which we learn new techniques derived from aikido with the stick and the sword, and it’s been a strong factor in as much it began to change the depth of the/my work in the field of performance, movement, dance …
On the other hand our own space, the Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, has been a refugee for us as a team: we restructured the space, did building work, had a place for gathering during the winter time and worked on small formats, respecting the rules for staying safe and healthy …
So the whole area around Humboldthain in Wedding has become a central point of meeting, and we developed our own ‘liveliness’ and home over there during that time, which has left good traces.

And now with this festival you’re sharing your work and practice with the public. What is the inspiration and intention behind it during this (still) special time?

The idea was to share some of that liveliness with an audience, or simply with a larger group of people, with friends.
The notion of being and doing things together is a central point. What can sharing be?
How does it feel doing the warm-up practice together in the park and then to witness another type of practice that can become an (invisible) performance – open-air, but at the same time worked for the theatre and now stripped of all possible theatrical signs (of representation)?
How can it be seen in its most essential presentness?
How can the material be looked at as a symbiosis of relationships between us as persons, as human beings and nature?
Relationships between culture and nature, inside and outside, self and other? How is it then to travel back to Wiesenburg, where installations happen indoors and concerts outdoors, where ‘doing things’ meets the notion of ‘seeing things’, ‘hearing things’, being together, relaxing and enjoying together.

The festival presents existing works in new forms and newly adapted versions. But there is also a thematic fil rouge around the idea of infinite movements.

The notion of infinite movement – movement that has no beginning and no ending, like all movements of life: walking, flying, climbing, etc. – has been a focus in my work for a long time. Weight shift and its movement patterns that repeat themselves but are continually new and different is the core material I’m dealing with.
That’s why the training and movement practice is so central to my work. When the looping and repetitive patterns are made visible they can become a living sculptural entity. In the working process I observe the places where things become visible and start to form … form the formless and leave the form again … alive material that is life itself: everything is vibrant movement.

We are pleased to invite you to the Premiere of Harvest, a dance performance for people of all ages, from 3 and upwards. The work is a production by Theater o.N. as part of the “Offensive Tanz für junges Publikum Berlin”.

16. – 23.09. 2021 Premiere and further performances

Info and tickets: www.theater-on.de

Pic. by Dieter Hartwig, all rights reserved

We are pleased to invite you to the Premiere of Personne, the new work by Isabelle Schad and Laurent Goldring, 9-12.09.2021 at Tanzhalle and Werkhalle Wiesenburg Berlin.
Part of the programme is the exhibition Les yeux sans regard, by Laurent Goldring, and an Open Practice Session with Isabelle Schad.
See details below.
We would be delighted to see you there.

all images by L.Goldring, all rights reserved.

SOMMERFEST.IVAL
August 6-9 2021

TANZHALLE & WERKHALLE Wiesenburg

We are happy to present a selection of works, newly adapted in durational and open-air versions, Open Practice Sessions and much more...

All events are free of charge. The number of places is limited.
pic by D.Hartwig. all rights reserved. Turning Solo 2 at Sophiensaele. It will be presented as an Open Air Version during this edition of our SOMMERFEST.IVAL

See Programme and details attached.

JULY 22-26 | 20.00
FESTSAAL SOPHIENSÄLE
15/10 €

JULY 22 23 | 8.00 PM | FUR + ROTATIONS
JULY 24 25 | 8.00 PM | ROTATIONS + TURNING SOLO 2
JULY 26 | 8.00 PM | FUR + TURNING SOLO 2

The works FUR, Rotations and Turning Solo 2 are part of an ongoing series by choreographer Isabelle Schad, in which she moulds rhythms and energies into choreographed experiences. Together with the performers, she creates three very personal portraits. The works invite to dive into a process of timelessness, of closeness and contemplation.

TURNING SOLO 2 is a continuation of the work Turning Solo. NAÏMA FERRÉ’S whirling practice has been brought into dialogue with Schad’s research around axial and weight shift, around inner movement material and its extension into the world, around energetic fields that characterise oneself and others. In 2020, dancer and choreographer JASMIN İHRAÇ reworks the score and her interpretation made it become its own universe: another person, another portrait. Turning Solo 2 now brings both portraits together for the first time to form a double that can be experienced simultaneously.

FUR is an encounter with the Japanese dancer AYA TORAIWA and her hair, which reaches her knees. The hair covers and clothes, becomes a shelter and a prosthesis: a fur-like outer layer and extension of the body, the energies, the self. The fragile material around the body reveals what seems hidden and acts as a transition between the inner and outer worlds.

In ROTATIONS, the movements of the dancer CLAUDIA TOMASI rotate and accumulate into an energetic flow, creating the illusion that her body is moving by itself. Between precision and loss of control, the choreography creates an astonishing energy.

pic: D.Hartwig, all rights reserved.

Nach dem erfolgreichen Gastspiel mit Turning Solo im September 2020 kehrt Isabelle Schad jetzt mit ihrer wegweisenden Gruppen-Choreografie Pieces and Elements und mit dem choreografischen Portrait FUR auf die Open Air Bühne des Globe Theaters zurück. In Pieces and Elements verhandelt eine Gruppe von Performer*innen ihren kollektiven Körper in Bewegung, der nur als gesamter funktionieren kann, analog zu zyklischen Vorgängen in der Natur. Die Neuinterpretation wird eigens für das Globe Theater adaptiert und in dieser Version zum ersten Mal gezeigt werden.

FUR ist eine Begegnung mit der japanischen Tänzerin Aya Toraiwa, befasst sich mit ihren spezifischen Körpermerkmalen, ihren Rhythmen, Konturen, Farben, Energien und insbesondere mit ihrem knielangen Haar. Ihr Haar bedeckt und bekleidet, wird zum Schutzraum und zur Prothese: eine fellähnliche äußere Schicht und Verlängerung des Körpers, der Energien, des Selbst.

Eine Produktion von Isabelle Schad, Unterstützt durch DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz“ Dank an: Wiesen55 e.V.
pics: D.Hartwig. all rights reserved.

Rezensionen: https://tanzschreiber.de/der-weg-nach-draussen/

https://springbackmagazine.com/read/isabelle-schad-pieces-elements-fur/