Tanzfabrik
Berlin
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Stage Uferstudios 5
Badstr. 41A, Uferstr. 23
13357 Berlin Stage
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Photo: Ditteke Waidelich

(Un)Folding

Performance · Premiere by Christina Ciupke, Anke Strauß, Ditteke Waidelich, Igor Dobričić
In the frame of Open Spaces#3-2018

»(Un)Folding« engages with transformations that evolve in folding processes. Folding gives shape to an (undefined) surface. It requires time for preparation and execution. In a fold, time and space are entangled. Spatial and performative elements grow into one another and transform the space over the course of the performance. This interplay of folding as physical exercise and the utopian desire to imagine unknown territories produces a landscape. Emerging and dissapearing again, guests and visitors populate this landscape in the consecutive days for a sympósion called »Working Utopias«.

By Christina Ciupke and Anke Strauß with Gretchen Blegen (Light), Igor Dobričić (Dramaturgy), Barbara Greiner (Produktion Management/PR), Lilly Schofield (Press), Ditteke Waidelich (Set, Costume) | A production by A lot of Body GbR, coproduction: Tanzfabrik Berlin, supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa and in the frame of apap – Performing Europe 2020, cofunded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Christina Ciupke

Christina Ciupke (she/her) is a Berlin-based choreographer/performer. She develops projects in cross-media collaborations. Specific situations are created in which proximity and distance, a sense of time and the togetherness of spectators and performers are negotiated. She has worked with the choreographers Nik Haffner, Mart Kangro, Jasna L. Vinovrški, Ayşe Orhon, dramaturge Igor Dobričić and composer Boris Hauf. Her works include the projects «Silent Trio» (2020-21) and «Take me somewhere nice» (2022-24) with visual artist and performer Darko Dragičević.. www.christinaciupke.com

Anke Strauß

Dr. Anke Strauß is an organisation researcher interested in relationships between the art and the business sphere, specifically with regard to differing types of knowing, inter-disciplinary collaboration and changing modes of organizing (alternative) work-lives. Having worked at the Social Science Centre Berlin (WZB) on artistic interventions in organisations, she is currently at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. Together with Christina Ciupke she is working on a project founded by the Volkswagen Foundation on artist-run organizations and the performativity of utopian thinking for (re-)organizing cultural labor.

Ditteke Waidelich

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Igor Dobričić

Igor Dobričić, studied dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, (former) Yugoslavia and attended a Master of Theatre at DasArts in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He shares his life between Berlin and Amsterdam and is working internationally as a dramaturg and artistic advisor, collaborating with several choreographers/makers (Nicole Beutler, Keren Levi, Christina Ciupke, Alma Sodeberg, Meg Stuart, Arkadi Zaides a/o). In a role of a professor and mentor he has a long-term engagement with the School for New Dance (SNDO) in Amsterdam and K3 Choreographic Center in Hamburg. From 2010 onwards he is also developing his own performative research project under the title TableTalks. During the last 7 years TableTalks is hosted and presented in a number of different cultural contexts : from Amsterdam to Stockholm, Cairo, Sao Paulo and Vienna.