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invited artists

we are happy to announce our newest addition where we invite guest artists to present an existing piece of theirs. this way, you are able to see another side of these workshop teachers and gain a different perspective on their work.

 

please find details on how to reserve tickets for all shows at b12 in the menu under performances/ticket reservations or prices/ticket reservations.

luke murphy

the dust we raised
 

We can try to alter mosquitoes to eliminate malaria, attempt to cure cancer or guarantee your child will be blonde. Choreographer Luke Murphy examines our giant leaps forward in science and medicine – and the backs we stepped on to get there. Quiet yet furious, sharp yet blunt, full of contradictions but starkly exposed, The Dust We Raised inhabits a haunting world of sound, film, dance and theatre where three lost souls wade through the fog – with a tempest of movement and a storm of questions. 

 

 

performances:

 

21 juli & 22 juli 2018: 19:00

 

dock 11 / berlin

Concept and choreography: Luke Murphy

Music: Michael Wall, Moderat, Portishead, Greg Haines, Loscil

Performed by: Alessia Ruffolo / luke murphy / Knut Vikstrom Precht 

Stage design: Luke Murphy

Costumes: Luke Murphy

Lighting designer: Tim Feehily

Sound designer: Luke Murphy

Production: Luke Murphy - Attic Projects with support from Arts Council of Ireland and Theatre Development Centre

Producer: Conall O'Riain

 

duration: 55 minutes

johannes wieland

darwintodarwin
 

we inhabit this body, evolved over seven million years. it hosts us and provide us with a place to exist. to decipher that ancient existence, physical and mental, is a dangerous road: the survival resources we pull from today are hidden far beneath the premise to stay put together, to keep up appearances. and they are wild.

 

we have no clue what is really going on with us and we are prisoners of our instincts, wanting to see what we want to see, wanting to know what we want to know, wanting to feel what we want to feel. yes, there is an evolution, but there is no escape.

 

we are primal, survival is crucial and reproduction a must. charles was so, so right!

 

 

performances:

 

14 july & 15 july 2018: 19:00

 

dock 11 / berlin

staging and choreography: johannes wieland

sound score: this will destroy you / pan american and more

costumes: johannes wieland

assistants: carla jordao / pin–chieh chen

performers: gotautė kalmatavičiūtė, safet mistele, evangelos poulinas

duration: 60 min.

 

performance projects

this special setting gives dancers the opportunity to have an in-depth experience with one choreographer, working on an idea and presenting it in a performance setting. each performance project is limited to around 17 people and spans over 12 days. the pieces will be presented three times at dock 11, a black box theater in the center of berlin.

 

please find details on how to reserve tickets for all shows at b12 in the menu under performances/ticket reservations or prices/ticket reservations.

helder seabra

trancesition
 

life is a constant chain of beginnings and endings: cycles, where repetition- amongst other things (emotions for example) generates change. one can see a performance from the same perspective. as individuals and as a collective we come together for a clearly set amount of time during which we create a sphere in order to prepare ourselves to be transported out of the daily grind and into a place of distillation. a place where we perhaps discover something new about experiencing things, or even become lost for an instant. to allow yourself to let go and live the moment. i am interested in how, we as human beings, are so often affected emotionally and physically by our constant state of transition. to dance beyond the act of dancing, and push the boundaries of physical and mental ability. how far can it be driven, how surprised can you be about it, and how that state of mind and body leads yet again into new beginnings and endings, resulting in a raw, instinctive, strongly animalistic and yet poetic movement and theatrical quality. working with a live musician, who himself also reacts to what is part of, by accentuating and/or triggering states, will aid and strongly stimulate us on our journey exploration.

performances:

 

19 July 2018: 19:00 

20 July 2018: 17:00 & 19:00 

 

dock 11 / berlin

lali ayguadé & guilhem chatir

lost souls
 

this performance project is about the dynamic play between the individual and the collective. we will play with the power of the group and see how this creates vulnerability in one, and strength in another. we all try to be unique, even if it’s not intentional- everyone wants to be special. we live in a world in which we wait to be accepted and this only generates pressure and dishonesty - especially to oneself. we resent ourselves the way people would like to see us, but it’s not really who we really are. the 'soul' is important because it proposes a realm beyond the body, beyond the materialistic- the things which we do and do not see, but they are there.

performances:

 

19 July 2018: 19:00 

20 July 2018: 17:00 & 19:00 

 

dock 11 / berlin

iztok kovač

en-knap composing principles
 

"how do people interact?" i wish to create an atmosphere where every individual depends on the collective, while each participant’s creative input adds to the quality of the group’s performance. we will focus on two basic complementary choreographic devices used in most of en-knap's performances: 3q and open parts, both based on the use of chance, either in the structuring or in the interpretation. for this process participants need to be willing to collaborate closely, have quick reactions, as well as an open mind and a wish to share proposed and individual movement material. 3q is a choreographic device defined as a system of structured coincidence. it is based on the motions of different expressive qualities and will be determined by the use of fixed music structures which we will analyse beforehand. the 3q system functions in groups, where one person takes the role of the leader and switches between time-limited sequences of pre-determined motion, or 'units', while the other dancers react to the leader's performance using three options, which are pre-chosen by throwing of the dice. open parts are based on a set of rules, while the element of chance is present in the interpretation. participants are instantly composing the relationships between each other, the movement material, space and time.

performances:

 

12 July 2018: 19:00 

13 July 2018: 17:00 & 19:00 

 

dock 11 / berlin

luke murphy

vigilante
 

embracing the creative process as a chaotic, vulnerable, fragile, violent, exciting, intimate and volatile experience, we will come together take a deep breath and simply go to work. i hope to create a space that enables performers who want to work, who want to find new languages and want to dig deeper to be able to do their best work. i believe any medium is available at any moment and we will work unconstrained by any personal or exterior expectations of the right way. the way we work will be the right way because its the way we work. i hope to foster an atmosphere of support and safety amongst the company so that we can interrogate the fundamental conflicts of the theatrical itself:

 

-friction between the performer and the content.

 

-contradiction between the awareness of moving in space and the internalization needed to realise a character.

 

-conflict of sound and action and imagery.

 

-hostility between the controlled atmosphere of the theatre and the unbridled chaos of human nature.

 

we will examine how the abstraction of movement can be contextualized to inform meaning and where the power of ambiguity can be harnessed to provoke thought. the outcome might not be the objective but where we look at conflict we might find resolution.

performances:

 

19 July 2018: 19:00 

20 July 2018: 17:00 & 19:00 

 

dock 11 / berlin

shannon gillen

abyme
 

you will engage in a rigorous process of unearthing your inner wants and needs, which will be made use of to help the performers develop characters that bond psychological and emotional states to physical ones. through combustive prompts, you will find yourself in a maelstrom of situations and feelings, compelling each scene to escalate into a mad wilderness of movement. immersed in the thick tension of the group, we will enter the abyss. not the emptiness of the void, but the fractal complexity of a dream within a dream. a process of reduplication will, like standing between two mirrors, force us to face the infinite extension of ourselves and our actions. doppelgängers, soul mates, and throngs of people will be seduced into wild mind-melds. you know that i know that you know that this is really happening. shannon's experiences working with johannes wieland as well as with the artists of vim vigor, has influenced her approach to raw physical movement, the collaborative creative process and life. unabashedly personal, each work enters a terrain of human failure, triumph, and will.

performances:

 

12 July 2018: 19:00 

13 July 2018: 17:00 & 19:00 

 

dock 11 / berlin

johannes wieland

solar storm
 

i will drift through space and will not understand my world. i will drift through space and will not understand yours. so i will re-write myself. i will dissolve into the particles i am made out of and re-organise them. i will re-create myself and become all of you, including you, and will invite the solar system to be my ego. i will be new. very new.

performances:

 

12 July 2018: 19:00 

13 July 2018: 17:00 & 19:00 

 

dock 11 / berlin