Emerging Change Tanzfestival
21.09.–19.10.2024
Emerging Change Tanzfestival honors Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) dance artists and creates an inclusive space of transformation and celebration for all. From September 21 to October 19, 2024, Emerging Change features performances, workshops, residencies, community conversations, and celebrations.
Emerging Change Tanzfestival highlights "Whale Fall: abyss," a captivating solo performance by renowned NYC dance artist mayfield brooks with live cello. This work was born from the sonic dissidence of Black grief and becomes the decomposed dance — the space of grief and regeneration, the lamentation, the ecstasy, the song and the sonic release.
Magnetic performances by Berlin-based artists include "another space / memory," by femBlack Performance Collective, a heart-full work with five dancers, a singer, and a DJ, which interrogates memory as a machine-body that dances beyond itself, marking an unterwegs (on the way) where Black queer bodies are able to let go, "XÊR," a cinematic solo performance by Kurdish queer dance artist Elvan Tekin that investigates the role of the voice in language, identity and the body, and "INTERMISSION," a mesmerizing solo work by Black queer dance artist vAL where dreams can spill out, linger and perhaps mend...
The festival counters structural racism and rejects tokenism within the field of dance. Inspired by adrienne maree brown's book "Emergent Strategy," directors and curators Nara Virgens and Makisig Akin designed the festival to emulate the structural resilience of mycelium as a model of thriving through QTBIPoC interconnectivity and interdependence.
Emerging Change Tanzfestival highlights "Whale Fall: abyss," a captivating solo performance by renowned NYC dance artist mayfield brooks with live cello. This work was born from the sonic dissidence of Black grief and becomes the decomposed dance — the space of grief and regeneration, the lamentation, the ecstasy, the song and the sonic release.
Magnetic performances by Berlin-based artists include "another space / memory," by femBlack Performance Collective, a heart-full work with five dancers, a singer, and a DJ, which interrogates memory as a machine-body that dances beyond itself, marking an unterwegs (on the way) where Black queer bodies are able to let go, "XÊR," a cinematic solo performance by Kurdish queer dance artist Elvan Tekin that investigates the role of the voice in language, identity and the body, and "INTERMISSION," a mesmerizing solo work by Black queer dance artist vAL where dreams can spill out, linger and perhaps mend...
The festival counters structural racism and rejects tokenism within the field of dance. Inspired by adrienne maree brown's book "Emergent Strategy," directors and curators Nara Virgens and Makisig Akin designed the festival to emulate the structural resilience of mycelium as a model of thriving through QTBIPoC interconnectivity and interdependence.
With: mayfield brooks, femBlack Performance Collective, vAL, Elvan Tekin, Djibril Sall, ShahrZad, Zem*u Huber, Virginnia Ogechi Krämer & Isabel Kwarteng-
Acheampong, Makisig Akin & Anya Cloud/The Love Makers Company, Isabelle Dikumbi, and more.
More information and the full program available at: www.emergingchange.org
Acheampong, Makisig Akin & Anya Cloud/The Love Makers Company, Isabelle Dikumbi, and more.
More information and the full program available at: www.emergingchange.org
Stage
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XÊR
Elvan Tekin Performance · PremiereUferstudios5 -
black future imaginings
Virginnia Ogechi Krämer, Isabel Kwarteng-Acheampong WorkshopUferstudios5 -
INTERMISSION
vAL Performance · PremiereUferstudios5 -
Decomposing (decolonizing) Somatics: decentering the human
mayfield brooks WorkshopUferstudios1 -
The Body is a Shoreline
mayfield brooks WorkshopUferstudios5 -
Post-Failure Potentials
Makisig Akin & Anya Cloud / The Love Makers Company WorkshopUferstudios5 -
another space / memory
femBlack Performance Collective PerformanceUferstudios14 -
another space / memory
femBlack Performance Collective PerformanceUferstudios14 -
Djaam leeli
Djibril Sall R.E.D. Residency ShowingUferstudios5 -
Whale Fall: abyss
mayfield brooks Performance · German premiereUferstudios1 -
Whale Fall: abyss
mayfield brooks Performance · German premiereUferstudios1 -
Forbidden body, rise and fall - WILL NOT TAKE PLACE
ShahrZad R.E.D. Residency Showing (for BIPoC only)Uferstudios5 -
The Rest Bath
Isabelle Dikumbi WorkshopUferstudios5