Collaborations

Animal Companion
/ Hana Lee Erdman

This performance applies principles of interspecies relationships through choreography and image making, with the aim of suspending conventional habits and expanding the repertoire of human relations. The exhibition space is treated as a social art space, one that designs and collects strategies for being together. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to engage with Animal Companions and replace their usual language and social codes with principles of proximity, telepathy and inter-subjectivity. They get the chance to see artworks and/or performances through the eyes of their animal companions and engage in intersubjective readings.

Author: Hana Lee Erdman. Performer: Asaf Aharonson, Alice Heyward, Layton Lachman, Jorge De Hoyos, Kasia Wolinska. Dramaturgy: Igor Koruga. The piece is represented by Gallerie, a project and gallery that represents immaterial artworks.
http://tanznachtberlin.de/tanznachtberlin2020/en/hana-lee-erdman/

Autotrofia
/ Anton Vidokle

Shot in the village of Oliveto Lucano in the south of Italy, Autotrofia is simultaneously a documentation of a very ancient pagan fertility ritual that is still practiced in this region, and scripted fiction, based on writings by the painter Vassily Chekrygin and the scientist Vladimir Vernadsky. The scripted content of the film explores the ecological dimension of Russian Cosmism: a desire to transform and evolve in such a way that humans would not need to kill and consume any other living organism in order to produce the energy necessary for living, and instead learn from green plants how to generate nutrition directly from the sun. This idea, first developed at the turn of the 20th century, is juxtaposed with an older, pagan celebration of King Oak and King Holly: a harvest festival in which two trees that represent summer and winter are joint into one supernaturally tall tree, completing and connecting the seasonal cycle created by the orbit of our planet around the sun.

Autotrofia was commissioned by Fondazione Matera-Basilicata as a collaboration with the community of Oliveto Lucano. The entire village participated in the making of the film, some helping with production and others taking on acting roles. Shot in Italian, the script was translated by Franco (Bifo) Berardi. The music for the film was composed by Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai).

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/471231/autotrofia/
https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive-selection/archive-2021/programme/detail/202101630.html

Water Sports
/ Karol Tyminski

»Water Sports« is a dance performance where the central figure is Gardener, a perverse allusion to the problematic human interventions into ecology of things. »Water Sports« speaks about a romantic-sexual relation between humans and an Ocean, where the performers become the creators and the care takers of water gardens, exploring care, sexuality and physical relationality in a cross-matter dancing.
Choreography, dance: Karol Tyminski Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Kasia Wolinska / Music: Marc Lohr / Costume: Claudia Hill / Light: Emese Csornai, Bruno Pocheron / Produced in cooperation with Tanzfabrik Berlin and arts centre BUDA, Centre in Motion Choreographers’ Workspace. / Financed by Berliner Senat für Kultur und Europa | Supported by apap-Performing Europe 2020, cofunded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Eye Sea
/ Anna Nowicka

“Eye Sea” links the choreographic with current social problems such as exploitation and the destruction of the environment. The dreams depict deeper, interior movements, which respond directly to the needs of the world. From this they draw enormous strength to alter realities.
Concept, choreography, performance: Anna Nowicka / In partnership with: Mor Demer and Katarzyna Wolińska / Performance: Mor Demer, Anna Nowicka, Katarzyna Wolińska / Light design: Sandra Blatterer/ Costume design & Stage: Claudia Hill / Costume assistance: Diane Esnault, Emilia Patrignani / Press: AugustinPR – Yven Augustin/ Music: Klaus Janek / Internship: Garance Debert, Zofia Tomczyk / Production management: M.i.C.A. – Movement in Contemporary Art / Raisa Kröger & Katharina Meyer / Dramaturgy: Mateusz Szymanówka, Peter Pleyer / Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Acziun by Muzeum Susch / Art Stations Foundation CH / Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and within the framework of “Étape Danse”, the German-French residence program of the fabrik Potsdam in cooperation with CDC Uzès Danse, Théâtre de Nîmes, Mosaico Danza – Interplay Festival Turin and Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse / Institut français Germany

Second Nature
/ Agata Siniarska and Karolina Grzywnowicz

The starting point for this premiere is the life of Pola Nireńska, a Polish Jew, dancer and choreographer (1910 – 1992). In the USA, where she immigrated after a long odyssey, she became one of the formative figures of modern dance. Although she always managed to escape the grip of anti-Jewish groups, the Holocaust still shaped her whole life, up to her suicide in 1992.
The Polish artists Agata Siniarska and Karolina Grzywnowiczdevelop a very personal performance against this background as representatives of a younger generation. In their examination of nature, its healing powers, symbols and dangers, they show a radical, contemporary meditation on the genocide trauma that followed Nireńska throughout her life.

On the centenary of regaining independence, Poland has launched the project “Choreographic Territories – New Paths for the Avant-garde” open to young dancers and choreographers inspired by the world icons of choreography of Polish descent.

Concept: Agata Siniarska, Karolina Grzywnowicz / Installation: Karolina Grzywnowicz / Choreography: Agata Siniarska, Katarzyna Wolińska inspired by “Tetralogy of Holocaust” by Pola Nirenska, “Bacchanal” by Isadora Duncan, “Extinct Animals” by Marcus Coates / Performance: Katarzyna Wolińska / Dramatic consulting: Mateusz Szymanówka
Production: Artists Association Four Dimensions Are Not Enough for Us, Agata Siniarska, Karolina Grzywnowicz / Co-production: Hellerau European Centre for the Arts
The production has been carried out as a part of the “Choreographic Territories – new paths of the avant-garde” project, held in collaboration between the Institute of Music and Dance, Hellerau European Centre for the Arts, East European Performing Arts Platform, Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk and Lublin Dance Theatre. The installation was produced in co-operation with Pilecki Institute.

You are safe
/Agata Siniarska

choreography of the movement relations between human bodies, aliens, thoughts, trillions of bacteria, viruses, global warming, political imaginary and theory.
concept: Agata Siniarska / choreography: Agata Siniarska, Ania Nowak, Katarzyna Wolińska / dramaturgy: Mateusz Szymanówka / consultants: Jeanine Durning, Julia Rodriguez, Karolina Grzywnowicz / light design: Joanna Leśnierowska
www.nowyteatr.org/en/event/you%20are%20safe

The Church of Non-devine
/Karol Tyminski

Heads about to explode, the world almost falling apart. Science and I would have a chia pudding and she will try to explain it all to me. We would open a church where we would let people get together to shatter the self as they know it.
choreography: Karol Tyminski | Performance: Karol Tyminski, Kasia Wolinska, Mike O’Connor | Music: Marc Lohr | Dramaturgy: Agata Siniarska | Lightdesign: Maika Knoblich | Technical manager: Robert Lange | Stage design assistance : Valentina Wong | Production management: M.i.C.A. - Movement in Contemporary Art. | Funded by Senatsverwaltung Kultur und Europa, Tanzfabrik Berlin and in the frame of apap – Performing Europe 2016-2020, co-funded by Creative Europe Programme der EU. Supported by Center in Motion Choreographers Workspace Warsaw and the residency at Tanzhaus Zürich.
www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/en/events/579