PROJEKT
What remains - of moments that have passed?
STAUBFÄDEN (AT) is a dance-based search for clues about and through memories
Three dancers, an attic full of remnants and stories.
Between old objects, yellowing photos and flickering light sources, a shared journey begins into what shapes us, what we want to preserve or forget. Memories emerge - sometimes tender, sometimes gushing, sometimes painful...
A weave emerges between personal fragments and chains of thought - as fragile as dust.
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The project explores the nature and significance of memory and questions how experiences, emotions and stories are stored in our bodies and shape our identity. Often only fragments are tangible, other facets and events become blurred or fade over time and form new stories.
In collaboration with the visual artist Nashla Abdelnour, three dancers (Fenia Chatzakou, n.n. and Rebekka E. Böhme) and the musician Riccardo Castagnola, the aim is to create a multimedia dance theatre piece for an adult audience that immerses them in different worlds and reconstructs and retells stories from different cultural backgrounds.
We are interested in the question of how individual and collective memories are inscribed in the body and can be expressed through dance. In terms of content and aesthetics, we also want to explore the phenomenon of forgetting and the repression of memories.
Using dance, physical theatre, aerial dance elements and installation as well as objects, photos, text and musical environments, we will question the complexity and transformation of memories and the changes in perception over the course of time. We will look at how memory landscapes and spaces can be designed in order to make memories physically and metaphorically tangible.
There are no copyrights or image rights. Images serve only to illustrate interests in possible stage elements, atmospheres and installations.
ARTISTIC TEAM
has been working internationally as a freelance dancer, performer and choreographer since 2008 with choreographers, ensembles and artists from various disciplines, such as the Volksbühne Berlin, performing:group, Derida Dance Company, the guts company, SETanztheater, Alexandra Pirici, Yoshiko Waki, Deutsches Theater Berlin, shua group, Bremer Philharmoniker and others. Her own artistic productions are created in a wide variety of contexts and often through interdisciplinary collaborations. Inspired by people, nature, science and the character of different places, she creates dance theatre, installative and site-specific performances, vertical/aerial dance performances at lofty heights as well as performative and circus works with young people. Interested in different realities and perceptions of the (surrounding) world, she focuses on the physical and theatrical potentials of the body and explores an emotional and abstract way of storytelling. She studied dance in Berlin, Salzburg and Jerusalem and has received several scholarships and grants in the fields of dance, circus and cultural education. She has also completed training in various circus disciplines (Circus Akademie Berlin, Cirkus in Beweging Leuven - Erasmus+) and in vertical & aerial dance. 2021 - 2022 she was a scholarship holder of the University of Hildesheim Foundation in the course ‘Artistic Interventions in Cultural Education’.
was born and grew up in San José, Costa Rica. From an early age, she was trained in various classical art techniques such as oil, pastel and acrylic painting. After studying visual communication and graphic design at the Accademia Italiana in Florence, Italy, she moved to Barcelona, Spain. There she obtained a Bachelor's degree in ‘Art and Design’ at the Escola Massana and later specialised in printmaking at the Llotja School of Art. In her artistic work, she explores the photographic image and its relationship to memory and time. She explores the historical, emotional and symbolic value of the image and how its meaning can be redefined. Her work is diverse and ranges from installations to video art and paintings. Nashla has realised several projects and received residencies in Berlin, New York, Buenos Aires and San José. Her works have been exhibited in Costa Rica, Spain, France and the United Kingdom.
regularly collaborates with various institutions in the field of contemporary music, dance and multimedia performance, such as Schwankhalle Bremen, Ensemble New Babylon, Tanzkollektiv Bremen, Theater Bremen, D'Haus Düsseldorf, Theater Osnabrück, Gerhard-Marks Haus, Tempo Reale and Mezzo Forte Design (IT). His work and activities include electroacoustic and instrumental composition, live music and video for performance, dance and theatre, free improvisation, sound direction, sound design for film and interactive multimedia installations, analysis of electroacoustic music. He studied electronic music and composition at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini (Bologna, IT) with Prof Francesco Giomi and Prof Lelio Camilleri and at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (DE) with Prof Kilian Schwoon, Jörg Birkenkötter and Joachim Heinz. In 2015-16 he was a master student in ‘Temporal Media’ at the HfK Bremen (Prof. Jean-Fraçois Guiton) with a focus on interactivity between sound, image and gesture. He trained in workshops with international composers, performers and sound artists such as D. Smalley, B. Parmegiani, S. Sciarrino, A. Mayr, F. Bayle, P. Billone, M. Belli, A. Soto, B. Fort, F. Maheu, L. Sonami, J. O'Callaghan, R. Normandeau. His soundtrack for the silent film ‘Die Leuchte Asiens’ (1925, F. Osten) was shown at the Berlinale Retrospective 2018. In 2017, he was a finalist for the FRANZ LISZT Scholarship (acousmatic composition) in Weimar. In 2018, he launched the project ElekTrAktionen, a multimedia electro-acoustic performative series in Bremen, in cooperation with the SCHLACHTHOF theatre and with the support of the Senator for Culture Bremen.
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Creation & Dance
born 1991 in Greece, holds a BA (Hons) in Dance Education (University of Bath) and a BA in Pedagogical Studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Fenia started her training with rhythmic gymnastics before transferring to dance under the instructions of Nadia Koutziampasi and Ioannis Margaronis (Diagonal Dance School, Thessaloniki). In 2018-2019, she was part of the Bodhi Project Company collaborating with choreographers Guy Nader/Maria Campos, Francesco Scavetta, Jose Agudo and Lisi Estaras. As a freelance dancer, she worked with Georgia Tegou and Michalis Theofanous, (7th New Choreographers Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre/Athens, Helllenic Centre/London). From August 2020, Fenia was part of Braunschweig Staatstheater company, co-creating pieces with guests choreographers such as Ryan Mason, Annamari Keskinen, Henrieta Horn, Rainer Behr, Danae Dimitriadi and Dionysis Alamanos, Stijn Cellis, Guy Nader & Maria Campos. During the 2021-2022 season, Fenia was awarded as the ‘Young Artist of the year’ by the Staatstheatre Braunschweig. Currently she is a freelancer dancer based in Germany, undertaking projects in Germany and rest of Europe. She has an ongoing collaboration with Csenger K.Szabo, with whom they co-created the duet "Still Love” and have been sharing their workshop material ‘Physical Alertness’ in various venues and educational contexts. During 2024, together with the urban sociologist Danai Toursoglou, they founded ‘Urban Pulse Collective, working at the verge of research and action and seeking to support common processes in multi- cultural environments.
The audience is invited to enter this world - familiar and mysterious.
A place where the past does not stand still, but moves.