PEARLS 21 – 8th of September 2021
7 & 8 pm |19.00 & 20.00 Uhr | DOCK 11 | 10 €
Presenter: Maria Walser
- A walk in the park
Him. A beckoning sky. Her. A moment. A sparkle. If you imagine it, is it real? …read more - A Collective Sacrifice
‘If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound? There is something about the complete lack of human noise deep in a forest that is so peaceful and yet so jarring. …read more - IMPLIED LINES
A reflection on plurality. Presences, absences, languages, realities. When a body is put into relationship, what does it say? How can it be looked at? How can it collaborate with other bodies even if they seem hostile? How can it recognize their identities, potentials and limits? …read more - Ontkoppeling
Ontkoppeling shows an artificial context in which two characters fail to connect with daily life. A very precise and articulated movement language, shapes this artificial display of reality. …read more - BINARY
Two bodies meet in a dystopian landscape and merge into one. A duet created by EDIFICE and performed by Harriet Waghorn and Andre Kamienski. Shot in Toronto, Canada. …read more - Insular Bodies
Insular Bodies plays with materialities. What happens when we horizontalize human and biological, flesh and stone, wind, water and hair? Insular Bodies draws our attention to the wacky entanglements between the human and the non-human, the living and the non-living, and develops poetic images of an ecology that does not show hierarchies but rather approaches utopian scenarios of consonance. …read more
PEARLS 21 – 9th of September 2021
7 & 8 pm |19.00 & 20.00 Uhr | DOCK 11 | 10 €
Presenter: Maria Walser
- We Men
We Men is a short length performance film that highlights, explores and gives room for questioning the internal crises that a number of men have to deal with as it relates to communicating and accepting their feminine self (i.e Anima). …read more - Long Lane
This is an alley where I grew up. It was the only way to my grandmother’s house when I was a child. When I walked into it, my footsteps would be very clear, let my heart find peace. …read more - Hong Kong – episode two
A visual representation of a day inside the hectic city. …read more - Come Rain or Shine
In a society of extreme distortion, people lives like ants and they actually don’t mind about it. Sunlight may not be inevitable, and in fact the rain may bring more clarity to the mind and body. …read more - In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight is the result of months of exploring urban movements on a boulevard in Tehran, Iran. In a society where many questions and restrictions exist around the concept of ‘movement’, three performers try to define the borders of dance. …read more - A que passo você está de perder o controle?
There are various perceptions about what time we are in and what loads our bodies can bear. It’s like an existential struggle that goes through the body, generating deep internal emotional discharge. …read more - George
“George” was motivated by the killing of George Floyd in May, 2020 and the global reaction to this horrifying display of racial brutality. …read more - SALTO
SALTO is a shimmering slow-motion 10-min-rollercoaster of frictions between rocks, skin, saltwater, wind, feathers, fur, moss and concrete. A single panning movement of the camera circumscribes the dramatically contrasting landscapes of Madeira Island, Portugal. …read more - Hugging you
PEARLS 21 – 11th of September 2021
7 & 8 pm |19.00 & 20.00 Uhr | DOCK 11 | 10 €
Presenter: Maria Walser
- Everything that’s left
This is for you. For you, who is looking for a new beginning. For you, who feels nothing and feels too much at the same time. For you, whose body I can recognise from far away and who is alien to me when being close. For you, whose back is telling me more than the face I’m holding between my hands. For you, who doesn’t feel synchronised with anyone, who is longing to connect – waiting, falling, stumbling. For you, the one I’m running after. …read more - All that is the case
“The touch is the truth” (Antisthenes) …read more - Endless Correspondences
Throughout my 30-year dance career, I have gradually evolved an image system that I consider thencore of my dance style which is now more important to me than actual dance technique. This image system has to do with nostalgic landscapes that I “see” while I am dancing. …read more - BELE BELTZA
Bela Beltza [Basque – black raven] A dreamy fairytale taking you into the high mountains, leading through a soul landscape. It’s a meditation on lightness, birth and death. Inspired by the wisdom of the raven, it’s an ode to the freedom of our spirit and the power of our soul. …read more - Spectre
A spirit wanders with a mysterious light. …read more - BEYOND
BEYOND is the aesthetic response to one of humankind’s current strategies to handle a global pandemic. Removing oneself from civilization and detaching from whatever does not serve us anymore. Exploring new truths and roads to inner peace seems to be the only way to rise above collective anxiety. …read more - The Soft Bit
Two hands bend up, slowly at first, then sharply, as if directing the ground to lift. Up and down again, up and down. With The Soft Bit, Jana Irmert explores movement, sound and image in a cinematic way. …read more - Beneath Sky Snakes
‘Beneath Sky Snakes’ is a video-dance work filmed during the first few days as New Zealand emerged from its first lockdown due to the global Coronavirus pandemic in late May 2020. …read more - Pass
When the immortal sunlight sweeps across the body, the breathing movement becomes the vibration and the skin is the clock. …read more - FURTHERMORE
Furthermore, foolish hearts, gonna find you Furthermore, hands fly apart, gonna hold you Furthermore, little is true, gonna let you go …read more