Time to Meet – Enchanted Islands - A Pantomime
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Danila Lipatov & Karen Zimmermann
Time to Meet! Following their R.E.D. residency, Danila Lipatov & Karen Zimmermann invite you to a work-in-progress showing followed by a discussion at Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Grüntaler 9.
How close can I get to you? How can I sense you? How much space does another person need? Should we exist here as a group? How do you organise work? What does it mean to be a flower? Should I follow what I have seen?
These are some of the questions that moved Danila Lipatov and Karen Zimmermann during their R.E.D. residency at Tanzfabrik BÜHNE. Their artistic research was inspired by Yevgeny Kharitonov's pantomime piece ‘Enchanted Island’ (1972). In the play by the Soviet, queer and censored poet, a jealous magician transforms shipwrecked lovers into all kinds of (non-)human beings. Despite their formal alienation, they remain in search of the other's touch.
Danila Lipatov and Karen Zimmermann have been working on the history of mime art and Yevgeny Kharitonov's dissertation “Pantomime in the Training of Film Actors” since 2022. In 2023, they were able to deepen their research during a residency at Lake Studios Berlin together with eight performers, collect materials, improvise and create film recordings. Following the R.E.D. residency at Tanzfabrik BÜHNE in 2024, Danila Lipatov and Karen Zimmermann worked individually - based on their shared memories of their time at Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Grüntaler 9 and online via video link.
At Time to Meet, they will reflect on the possibilities and limits of collective bonds in temporary spaces and across spatial distances.
How close can I get to you? How can I sense you? How much space does another person need? Should we exist here as a group? How do you organise work? What does it mean to be a flower? Should I follow what I have seen?
These are some of the questions that moved Danila Lipatov and Karen Zimmermann during their R.E.D. residency at Tanzfabrik BÜHNE. Their artistic research was inspired by Yevgeny Kharitonov's pantomime piece ‘Enchanted Island’ (1972). In the play by the Soviet, queer and censored poet, a jealous magician transforms shipwrecked lovers into all kinds of (non-)human beings. Despite their formal alienation, they remain in search of the other's touch.
Danila Lipatov and Karen Zimmermann have been working on the history of mime art and Yevgeny Kharitonov's dissertation “Pantomime in the Training of Film Actors” since 2022. In 2023, they were able to deepen their research during a residency at Lake Studios Berlin together with eight performers, collect materials, improvise and create film recordings. Following the R.E.D. residency at Tanzfabrik BÜHNE in 2024, Danila Lipatov and Karen Zimmermann worked individually - based on their shared memories of their time at Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Grüntaler 9 and online via video link.
At Time to Meet, they will reflect on the possibilities and limits of collective bonds in temporary spaces and across spatial distances.
Danila Lipatov & Karen Zimmermann
Danila Lipatov (he/him/they/them) and Karen Zimmermann (she/her/they/them) studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and have been working together at the interface of visual art, experimental documentary film and performance since 2017.
Using autofictional methods and performative reconstructions of archive and interview fragments, they question established orders and create collaborative spaces that interweave personal stories, facts and fiction to sketch queer archival landscapes.
Using autofictional methods and performative reconstructions of archive and interview fragments, they question established orders and create collaborative spaces that interweave personal stories, facts and fiction to sketch queer archival landscapes.
Admission free
No registration neccessary
No registration neccessary
Concept: Danila Lipatov, Karen Zimmermann
Performance and works by Asya Ashman, Faris Alrjoob, Tiwo Dannenberg, Polina Kichatova, Konstantin Koryagin, Juli Schmidt, Maya Zaretski
Camera: Ian Purnell
Sound Mastering: Marcus Zils
Supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE und Lake Studios Berlin. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin.
Supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE und Lake Studios Berlin. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin.