Tanzfabrik
Berlin
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Stage
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Stage Uferstudios 14
Badstr. 41A, Uferstr. 23
13357 Berlin Stage
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Photo: Zé de Paiva

The Twofold Paradox

Performance · Premiere by Ixchel Mendoza Hernández
In the frame of Open Spaces#3-2018

»The Twofold Paradox« plays with the boundaries between perception, memory and imagination and attempts to manipulate the audience’s perspective. In a timeless, fictional space consisting of two identically furnished rooms, suggestive fragments of movement, light and sound form clues for chains of associations. In her new performance, Mexican choreographer Ixchel Mendoza Hernández creates a series of mysterious situations that confront the viewers with their innermost desires and personal perceptions.

In a collage arranged from uncertain proposals, meaning and logic are never given.

Concept, choreography, performance: Ixchel Mendoza Hernández | Performance: Enrico Ticconi | Sound design: Malu Peeters | Light design, set: Eva G. Alonso | Dramaturgy: Daniel Wittkopp | Artistic advice: Olivia Hyunsin Kim | PR: Lilly Schofield | Production management: M.I.C.A. | Supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.

Ixchel Mendoza Hernández

Ixchel Mendoza Hernández (she/her) is a Mexican freelance choreographer, performer and dancer based in Berlin. She completed her choreography and dance studies at Artez Arnheim in 2007. From 2013 till 2015 she had been engaged at the MA SoDA, HZT in Berlin. Her research is based on a phenomena she calls «Visual Ghost», an consciousness of perception that continuously transforms or evolves: Living in a world, in which the materialized and visible is intertwined with the immaterial and the invisible, «Visual Ghost» explores how the invisible and immaterial can come into presence by experiencing them. Through the means of choreography she explores an awareness or consciousness that materialises in the space, interested in how these invisible phenomena come into the "present" and through what events, social arrangements or circumstances takes place.