A Choice Among Others - DAS Choreography Master Presentations 2023

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 19:00 - 22:30 hrs.

You are warmly invited to attend the DAS Choreography Master Presentations on 29, 30 and 31 March. 

Below you can read a little bit about their work and also find the schedule for the presentations. You will be able to register through this form.

The joint title of the Master Presentation is 'a choice among others'. Please find here the intro of the accompanying text 'a choice among others' (you'll be able to download the full text from our website soon)

You are entering the space of a choice among others.
A game of making language inaccessible and incomplete between Isis, Jeroen, Konstantina, Mario, Simone and Zander, set up and cared for by Setareh.

Looking for ways that one’s own words are uttered – and uttered again, moving between languages. You may think of it as a playful openness of conversational rhythms of speaking, but also as a space for explicit affirmations.

 

What can (not) be seen from here - Simone Gisela Weber

To what extent can a space in danger of perpetual collapse no longer guarantee our usual perception?

The work is an encounter in which bodies are located in different forms of potentiality as they are entangled in structures of constant demolition. Their slowness, resistance, and precarity are expressions of the attempt as well as the urge to challenge our relation to time and space, which mainly centers human conditions. Inspired by concepts of more-than-human nature, we strive to move towards a more open experience of different temporalities and perceptions. In dialogue with different materialities, an imaginary landscape invites the present bodies to oscillate between theatricality, literality, and abstraction. Their states of presence, co-existence, and entanglement are negotiated in the performance through a sense of “making time.”

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Bag Abyss Isis Andreatta

Bag Abyss is an invitation to inhabit a space of delirium as a possible shared fantasy together, as well as to pay attention to the urgency of multiplying improbable forces of vitality beyond the hegemonic norm from "this side of the line" as the only perspective for a healthy sociability.

Would inhabiting the tenacity of the lines be a strategy to remake agreements with multidirectionality? Would that mean escaping and deprogramming from the two-dimensional dichotomies danced by the colonial choreographies of the West?

Yes, my body and space are an unbroken embroidery in which this is just another hole.

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AFROTRANSTOPIA - Mario Lopes

There are two moments of a public talk with Mario and invited guests. The installation of Afrotranstopia is open for viewing throughout all three evenings of the master presentations. 

Since the beginning, it has been about Afrotranstopia, about activating and intersecting existences that deal with the traumas that are affected by the syndemic virus PACACO-bi (patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism - within a binary structure). Afrotranstopia reconnected us to the Afrodiasporic technologies of life, gave us the opportunity to create collectivity based on every single one of us, and activated our voices to enter the choir of a greater conversation and the accumulation of knowledge and practices. The practice has been salivating the knots and the method has been the creation of algorithms. What stays is foam.

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3M0T1NG{/n3tw0rk1ng} - Zander Porter

Which space-time emerges from recoding the “I” in individual_neoliberal? A technogenetic matrix has been choreographed to rehearse this inquiry. 3M0T1NG{/n3tw0rk1ng} (“emoting/networking”) works with a modular nexus of moving collaborators in a transindividual and ceremonial equation, constantly recomputing personal networking devices and dis-re-embodied emoticons in a multi-/intra-entity, emo-techno-social soma. Intimations of eye-contact and image-selves disconnect essentialized “truths” from individualized feelings and expressions. Rendered are psychic dissociations from hegemonic_colonized emotionality, re-queering inter-relational communications and psychotherapies in “real” (hallucinatory) and “virtual” (sensational) time.

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Wednesday 29 March

19:00 | Simone Gisela Weber - What can (not) be seen from here

20:15 | Isis Andreatta - Bag Abyss

Thursday 30 March

19:00 | Simone Gisela Weber - What can (not) be seen from here

20:15 | Mario Lopes - Afrotranstopia*

21:30 | Zander Porter - 3M0T1NG{/n3tw0rk1ng}

Friday 31 March

19:00 | Zander Porter - 3M0T1NG{/n3tw0rk1ng}

20:15 | Mario Lopes - Afrotranstopia*

21:30 | Isis Andreatta - Bag Abyss

*These are two moments of a public talk with Mario and invited guests. The installation of Afrotranstopia is open for viewing throughout all three evenings of the master presentations. 

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