FREMD.ARTIG invites you to immerse yourself in different worlds, to be irritated, to discover the familiar and to make room for the new. An international ensemble consisting of five dancers and a musician is dedicated to various aspects of foreignness. Strategies for dealing with it are developed and encounters are tested. What exactly is foreign to us and what is conversant? What do we keep away from, what do we allow, what triggers insecurity in us? Inspired by individual stories and experiences with the known and the unfamiliar, the performers open the eyes to an own perception of the unknown, the familiar and the everyday.

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PREMIERE  October 2022 / Castle Criewen in Brandenburg

Variations on that or any person” is a performance that deconstructs the Western myth of the self-sufficient person by reminding us that all beings are interconnected in a living web of interdependence.  While dancing with cleaning mops accompanied by live cello music, five performers address visitors, inviting them to reflect on what kind of care they have received throughout that day.

PREMIERE  SEPTEMBER 2022 / Feldfünf / WHO CARES? Feminist Art Festival Berlin

An invasion of the unknown...Just a moment ago we enjoyed the idyll of the moment. But the strange, intangible approaches us, we lose the safe distance. Discomfort is spreading. But what actually makes us afraid?

Young dancers deal with the themes of strangeness and alienation on a social, personal and physical level. Compositions as well as improvisational structures were created, with reference to "foreign determination", "feeling out of place", but also "belonging". The performers explore space and boundaries and take the audience on a walk through the park. They interact, illuminate new corners and try to free themselves from the confinement of projections.

RESIDENCY & SHOWING April 2019 / Castle Garden, Criewen 

PREMIERE  May 2019 / Borisova Gradina Park in Sofia / Bulgaria

Based on the proximity and touch of two people, in this performance we explore how we can use interactive technology to trigger, control, or change sounds.

The philosophical ideas of Maurice Melreau-Ponty give us reason to investigate how our perception changes through proximity or touch. The moment when our left hand touches our right hand and we find that the opposite is also true, Merleau-Ponty described as a "last-minute failure." This reversibility is a peculiarity of the sense of touch.

PREMIERE  July 2016 / Spektrum Berlin

Laboratory.

Constructed beings with human emotions stand in the room. Emotions that they are not yet quite able to deal with. But they should be able to react autonomously in their environment and, if possible, interact. Each is shaped differently and its state changes in every situation. Fearing to be replaced, they want to function and yet they want to be individual. This pressure overwhelms, the pressure of not being enough. They react. To the music, to each other and finally they find a common path and complement each other. But what comes next?

The piece refers to the further development of artificial intelligence and plays with the image of man in the machine and the machine in man. It deals with boundaries, competition and overcoming.

PREMIERE (Miniature) October 2010 / Exhibition event "human erosion" / Damensalon Berlin

PREMIERE (2. Edition) June 2012 / Schaubudensommer Dresden

Même is a choreographic journey through what has been experienced and seen, imagined and added. Memories can be transformed, embellished or even recreated. Memory is subjective and flexible.

How thoughts can drive us, determine our path and stir us up is told in a mosaic of dance, video and music.

PREMIERE  February 2012 / Festspielhaus Hellerau / Performance Series LINIE 08

ROHRPOST (TUBE MAIL) is about interpretations, misunderstandings and spaces. The protagonists wrote postcards to each other from all over the world or even just between Berlin and Dresden. The focus was on the description of the space in which the sender was at the time, whereby spaces of emotion and thought, as well as fictional spatial structures, are also meant here.

On the basis of collected messages, thoughts and their interpretations an interactive piece for two dancers and one actor was created.

PREMIERE  April 2011 / Projekttheater / Tanzwoche Dresden

An empty space, but no place to move - an attempt, a thought, a dream, vastness - reluctant wall. A shadow. Where am I? Who or what moves me? 

A piece about inner compulsionand constriction.

PREMIERE  April 2013 / Knock Knock - Who is there? - Performance series at Schloss Neuschweinsteiger Berlin

The human brain in an aesthetic consideration and basis of the examination of interpersonal relationship in motion. A quest for connection, trust, arrival and understanding.

We zoom in, through supposed chaos, to the innermost and discover countless connections. A network in which each part fulfills missions to ensure the functioning of the human body, coordinating movements and enabling interaction. But what can happen if something disconnects or is missing? What would these gaps mean for the body, perception, behavior and consequently for communication?

Berlin-PREMIERE  June 2008 / Tacheles Berlin

Istanbul- PREMIERE  October 2008 / Çatı Dans Istanbul