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VERTICAL DANCE / AERIAL DANCE

WALLend

at dizzying heights / Vertical Dance research project

© Denise Wal

Staggering / spinning / slumping / swaying / surging / fainting / 

dizziness / lift-feeling / gait insecurity / ...


In this Vertical Dance research I deal with the theme of Vertigo and experiment with different facets of vertigo. 

I explore the Vertical Dance and deepen my practice, visit workshops, companies and enter into exchange with practitioners in order to incorporate my findings playfully and aesthetically in my further work.


2023  (work in progress)





CONCEPT / RESEARCH & VERTICAL DANCE

Rebekka E. Böhme


FUNDED BY

the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, DIS-TANZEN aid program of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland


SUPPORTED BY 

Gravity Workouts Conil / Maria Maza Andreota


PHOTOS

from a workshop with Magalie Lanriot

Lisbon / 2023

IN - TEAM - ACY

Vertical Dance Performance

© Christiane Schleifenbaum


How do we come together, how does a familiar togetherness develop? What role do our personal space and boundaries play in this context? And what dynamics create closeness and distance between us? We embark on a search for rapprochement and fusion, using flying together as a poetic solution within our own limitations.


During a residency in Cottbus, we experimented on the facades and in the spaces of the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art in Cottbus.



PREMIERE  June 2022 /  Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst / Vernissage of "Verwandschaften"

CONCEPT
Rebekka E. Böhme
CHOREOGRAPHY & VERTICAL DANCE
Rebekka E. Böhme

Iris Gonzalez

ARTISTIC  ASSISTENCE
Nashla Abdelnour
RIGGING
Fabiola König-Ludyga



In cooperation with the Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, TanzWERKSTATT Cottbus and fabrik Potsdam.


"DiR - Dance in Residence Brandenburg" is supported by DIEHL+RITTER/ TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz, by the Ministry of the State of Brandenburg, the State Capital Potsdam, the City of Cottbus and Pro Potsdam.

Between closeness and distance

Bungee Dance Performance

© Christiane Schleifenbaum


listening

save space  /  extend  /  sharing weight

vulnerability

body  /  eyes  /  contact

hugs  /  touch  /  naked

deep connection



PREMIERE  June 2022 /  Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst 

CONCEPT
Rebekka E. Böhme
CHOREOGRAPHY & BUNGEE DANCE
Rebekka E. Böhme

Iris Gonzalez

ARTISTIC  ASSISTENCE
Nashla Abdelnour
RIGGING
Fabiola König-Ludyga


In cooperation with the Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, TanzWERKSTATT Cottbus and fabrik Potsdam.


"DiR - Dance in Residence Brandenburg" is supported by DIEHL+RITTER/ TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz, by the Ministry of the State of Brandenburg, the State Capital Potsdam, the City of Cottbus and Pro Potsdam.

CLOUDS IN THE SKY (AT)

Bungee dance research project

© Nashla Abdelnour

In this research project I investigate the possibilities and the limits of movement with a bungee/elastic rope. In relation to different inner states and mental health, I explore the body in space as well as while floating and falling. Everyday perceptions, balance and struggles of young people are key points of my content-related research. The book "Clouds in the sky" about  the nature of our thoughts and moods by Ivo Cussianovich with illustrations by Nashla Abdelnour will serve as an inspiration and base for video projection and animation.

A concept for an aerial dance production for a younger audience shall be created. 


2022  (ongoing)

CONCEPT & RESEARCH 

BUNGEE DANCE
Rebekka E. Böhme


ILLUSTRATION & VIDEO ANIMATION

Nashla Abdelnour


INSPIRATION

"Clouds in the sky" by Ivo Cussianovich & Nashla Abdelnour

SUPPORTED BY 

Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR

We bleed without being wounded

Bungee Dance for a radio play installation

© Lothar Herzog


This bungee - dance - video project is part of a radio play - installation, which invites one person at a time to an exclusive 60-minute performance and intense experience.

Inspired by the life and work of the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, "We bleed without being wounded" questions death as a projection surface and deals with the universal power of transformation. Playing with insights from astro- and quantum physics and spiritual knowledge, the installation allows the human longing for freedom and immortality to grow wings.


PREMIERE  November 2021 /  Festival "Theater der Dinge" Berlin


CHOREOGRAPHY / DIRECTION / DANCE

Esther Nicklas

BUNGEE DANCE & CREATION

Rebekka E. Böhme

CAMERA & EDITING

Lothar Herzog

COSTUME

Sophie Elstermann

PHOTOGRAPHY & GRAPHIC DESIGN

Tatjana Herkner

CO-DIRECTION & ARTISTIC COLLABORATION

Heidi Zengerle


SUPPORTED BY

Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

VERTICAL DANCE FUSION - Creative Laboratory

Vertical Dance Installation

© Sebastian Matthäus, Juan Leiba, Ronny Horning u.a.


In a laboratory, under the artistic guidance of Juan Leiba, a 30-minute vertical dance installation was created, in which six performers explore the vertical space, the in-between, the below and above. They are moved by inner states, the search for togetherness and common ground. Sometimes straying, sometimes levitating, they take the audience on a personal journey through the ruins of the Teufelsberg in Berlin. Vertical dance performances were also shown on other walls and surfaces of the historical site within the scope of the 1st Vertical Dance Fusion 2021 in Berlin. 


SHOWING  September 2021 / Teufelsberg Berlin


IDEA & CHOREOGRAPHY

Juan Leiba

VERTICAL DANCE / PERFORMANCE / CREATION

Lucia Blanco

Rebekka E. Böhme

Franziska Pack

Leonie Pfitzner

Evelyn Weinzettl

Carla Lonchuk

IDEA & ORGANISATION FESTIVAL VDF21

Anett Simmen - VoLA Stage Art / Company VoLA

RIGGING

Threesixty-Shows

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