What’s Love Got To Do With It? (Waiting list)
Workshop
with
Makisig Akin & Anya Cloud / The Love Makers Company
In the frame of WinterTanz 2022/23
The core of this dance workshop is a queer love centered survival practice of time travel/communion/habitat/performance/ritual where everything deserves to breathe. We will work with grand gestures that go nowhere, bonding/grappling/napping/fainting, professing love, falling and falling together, contact improvisation, climbing mountains, singing love songs, soul shaking practices, and hot sweaty dancing. We will work with how who is informs how we move. We will work with a kind of bonding that is only possible through bathing in each other’s sweat. We will be wet and pleased. How many ways can we move – move with – be moved by – each other? What is leftover? The central questions of our research are: What can we do together that we cannot do alone? What is possible when love is stronger than fear?
Accessibility Note
Accessibility Note
The workshop will be taught in spoken English and is open to all levels and abilities. There will be durational scored improvisational dancing practices that include physical contact, disorientation, momentum, impact, and resting. There will also be options/adaptations as needed. The research material includes building skills and practices of agency, consent, touch, positionality, generosity, endurance, risk-taking, decision-making, and collaboration. We will develop our individual and collective capacity through dancing and verbal discussion. If needed, a free workshop place for an accompanying assistant will be facilitated for participants with disabilities. Information about our location & studio access in Kreuzberg can be found here. For questions or more information, please contact Zoé Duflot & Elisabeth Leopold at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de
Makisig Akin & Anya Cloud / The Love Makers Company
Makisig Akin (they/them) and Anya Cloud (she/they) love each other. They have been collaborating and imagining together for 12 years. As queer dance artists/activists/educators their work is deeply rooted in the politics of the body and intersectional identity, indebtedness to ancestors and descendants, love, inventing new strategies for being intimately together, and cultivating radical aliveness. Makisig is originally from the Phillipines and Anya is originally from Alaska. They co-direct The Love Makers Company and are currently based between Berlin and Colorado. Together, they created two choreographic works titled We Are (nothing) Everything and Long & Wild, which both premiered in Berlin in 2023. We Are (nothing) Everything is now touring internationally. They regularly co-teach together including at Tanzfabrik Berlin Schule, ImPulsTanz, Being Touch, Wainsgate Dances, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, and The Field Center among others.
@makisigakin
@anya.cloud