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Present Perfect Continuous

Performance-Projekt with Angelo Petracca

Present Perfect Continuous is a performance project that imagines to have started in an undefined period in the past between 'before now' and ‘now’. The performers will be moving in an infinite and constantly transforming loop that has been started, but perhaps not yet finished. The space, the bodies, the voices will morph together in unison. The performers will be rooted in the NOW and navigate between the process and the outcome. We will work on a common vocabulary and train our intuition in body and mind. And we will make it happen together. This “deal” between all the performers and me as a choreographer, will bring about a sense of community, a utopian metaphor for a reality where we all have equal space. We will bring on stage a process that is always in progress and about to be completed, but never happens. We will search the undefined, the beautiful liminality of being in between. Repetitive rotations of a single body part will trigger the next looping action and so on, unfolding a catalogue of contrasting situations and emotional states.

Additionally there is a class with Angelo Petracca: "Logical Honesty - Impro tools" from 09.01. – 15.02.2023 | Mon & Wed 18:10-19:40
My work is based on the improvisation methods I developed during my in-depth research on movement. The class takes place in the form of physical and emotional exploration of the possibilities of the body: starting from internal listening to small physiological sensations, I push the participants to the limits of their physical and mental possibilities, working on movement parameters such as RHYTHM, INTENSITY, VOLUME, COMPLEXITY. I invite the body to search for honesty in movement through logical/mathematical resources that lower the expectation in everything we create with dance. During the work session, I help the "intelligent body" to abandon self-judgment in order to free its true dance. I create a space where you can improvise with logic and having fun with the aim of providing tools and inspirations that are useful in every movement practice. A succession of exercises, suggestions, small experiments that lead the participants on a journey in the body and with the body, tiring and liberating.

Angelo Petracca

Born in Bari and based in Berlin, starts studying ballet and contemporary dance in his own city before moving to Rome where he deepened the Cunningham technique with D. Verga, B. Ogan and T. Caley, former dancers The Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He dances with the company ATON DinoVergaDanza from 2007 until 2009. Then he starts his research about body languages and improvisation techniques with Virgilio Sieni, Theo Clinkard, Michele Di Stefano, Keren Rosenberg and develops performance art skills with Alessandro Sciarroni and joining the vocal chorus of Edipo Re by Chiara Guidi/Societas. He dances for the companies Altradanza from Bari, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Menhir/Giulio De Leo, Interno5 (Tudisco, Sicca), Nexus/Simona Bertozzi, Le Supplici/Fabrizio Favale, Gruppo WOW/DanteAntonelli, Matan Zamir and Gal Naor/The progressive wave and DAGADA Dance Company/Karolin Stächele. He wins, in a duet with O. Izzo, the prize for young choreographers DNAppunti Coreografici and is selected for Vetrina della Giovane Danza d'Autore 2017 with Studio sulla purezza. In 2019 he wins residency calls of Trac-Theatre residency center of Puglia and NAOcrea/Ariella Vidach with his new work
IFIGENIA (Studio sulla rinuncia) produced by Interno5. He holds workshops about improvisation tools and compositions in dance schools and professional programs like Opificio in Movimento, Leipziger Tanztheater, DOCK11 and EDEN Studios in Berlin.
Level: Movement Experience
Mon + Wed 20:00 - 22:00
Showing: 15.02.2023 / 21:00
Fee: 200 € / red.: 180 € / professional dancers: 160 €
Registration: schule@tanzfabrik-berlin.de
Phone 030.786 58 61

en/de | starts 09.01.23