24 January 2009

stuck in winter ice

It's been more than one year since we started the working process of 'die Welt als wilde Vorstellung' during our residence in Schloss Bröllin, and despise our work and efforts, our multiple applications for production, residence and showing have been in vain...

And we of course started new projects since - and quite successfully in the case of Angel Meat that gained us a 6 months residence in Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart). So for the first time Real Dance Super Sentai decided to suspend the working process of a piece - not only because our ideas and desires are not so fresh anymore and we want to keep working from excitement, but also because this piece is complex and expensive, and we promised our performers to provide them the minimum of good working conditions.

This is a pity since we are convinced of the qualities of this project, in itself and in comparison to most dance works we can see around. There is such a potential in this work, it's with bleeding hearts that we had to admit that it won't happen. Unless some miracle...

There have been a video made of the presentation made in Schloss Bröllin in November 2007, if you're interested in supporting this work and want to see this video, you can contact us at realdancesupersentai@gmail.com.
You can keep posted about our work on Unterhalt & Unterhaltung and Angel Meat's blog.

10 September 2008

blooming with the autumn rains

So as planed, the last weeks have been dedicated to application files, and now we expect some new supports for "die Welt..."

But it's not like nothing else happened in the mean time, Lara has been showing Dioniso Amore Mio (created in In Girum...) several times in Italy and Berlin, Nelli is having intensive yoga in Mexico, Rebecca and Zohar premiered their new shows in Berlin, Bertram and David spent some time in a studio for their new duo music project, and Ines and Bertram keep working on Angel Meat, an "experimental pop" duo at the verge of dance and music (picture below).


The studio project is also on its way, with some important meetings in October.

26 May 2008

anything new ? mmmmh...

The production process takes longer than we expected - though we have new contacts regularly but these things take time... Also since the previous post many things happened - Pumpwerk theatre is closed for good and our shows there are cancelled ; we suspend In Girum... until fall - until we find a new partner (by the way Rachel Brooker's Invitation was a very interesting and challenging piece, have a look at the In Girum... gallery) ; and we've been quite busy trying to get our own studio in Berlin - we just missed a good opportunity in Neukölln (also we start to think that an alternative dance and music theatre place in Berlin is seriously missing, should do something about it...).

So we keep it easy with 'die Welt...' until cash flows in - and we focus until then on the ever evolving Angel Meat project, currently in the form of a dance + music duo that is taking us to radical and unexpected directions. This and lots of travels in summer make 'die Welt...' next sessions in October - hopefully a one week residence.

25 March 2008

what's new since last time ?

"die Welt..."'s production process is quite slow lately but we are not inactive : we are programming our instant composition programme In Girum..., after two radical dance/music duos with Constanza Brncic/Ferran Fagel and Diego Chamy/Robin Hayward, we invite for In Girum... #5 in May Rachel Brooker's project Invitation, an interactive piece with 10 performers, video, music...

more info on ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni.blogspot.com and In Girum...'s new MySpace.

Also, Ines will create her new solo piece Punschkrapfen in August 2008 in Pumpwerk, Berlin, and Bertram will show the short piece Untitled (a glam piece) as part of the dance + sound festival proposed by Pumpwerk in July.

There is also a lot of music projects going on, including David Bausseron coming to Berlin in June to start recording demos for a new guitar based CD with Bertram and maybe Sam - the whole "die Welt..." line up !

23 January 2008

what's new in 2008 ?

While working on production applications, we organise in January regular sessions with our 4 dancers. Also Rebecca and Lara participate to In Girum #3 in Dock 11, Berlin, from 24 to 27 January.

More information on http://ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni.blogspot.com

30 November 2007

next steps

Now that the dance and music process started concretely and that we are confident in the project, we can explore some of our other ideas - a.o. the use of puppets that we considered at a very early stage - to increase the number of characters without having too many performers on the pay-roll ! - an idea that evolved to just one giant puppet that might arrive for the final...

To develop this blur idea we had a very nice and productive meeting with puppeteer Sarah Wright of Silent Tide puppet company with whom a brainstorming both creative and pragmatic allowed us to deepen what was so far just a fantasy. These are some sketches made after the meeting.






25 November 2007

cast's constant evolution

A new dancer, Lara Martelli, joined the project for the Berlin sessions


Lara Martelli
Lara Martelli was born in Pesaro, Italy. She first studied music (violin) in Conservatorio Rossini in Pesaro, then dance - first in New York with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis, she studied and at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen where she graduated. She has worked as a dancer with very different choreographers and theatre directors (among others with Sosta Palmizi, S. Linke, U. Dietrich, R. Leoni, J. Fabre, F. Ruckert). In her work as a performer and choreographer she has changed genre several times and has thereby gathered experience in the field between classical dance theatre, contemporary choreography and improvisation. Her curiosity to explore different body states, energetic transformations and metamorphoses leads her to ever new experiments.

24 November 2007

Residence in Schloss Bröllin

The residence in Schloss Bröllin is over and - as expected - allowed us to constitute a good working team and to initiate the concrete creative process - after months of organisation and theoretical work, it is a great pleasure to see this project embodied by dedicated dancers who provided their skills and energy to make this performance happen. You can see more pictures on the PHOTO GALLERY and a video of the presentation is available for producers and buyers - please contact us if you are interested.

Schloss Bröllin is an amazing place where to work, with good equipment, good spirit and a very supportive team to which we are grateful > www.broellin.de

10 November 2007

presentation in Schloss Bröllin > 14 November 2007


click on the picture to enlarge the flyer





26 October 2007

seemingly definitive cast


David Bausseron
Musician and performer based in Lille, David Bausseron plays guitar and MIDI guitar with several improvised and experimental music groups (La Pieuvre, De Nouvelles Erreurs, X-trio, Electric Cue...) but also provides his guitarist skills to pop bands (Oublis Miniatures, Numéro h...) and composes film music (Le Témoin Muet...). As a actor, performer and musician he collaborated to dance and theatre projects with companies Real Dance Super Sentai, A.T.T.I.L.A, Trois Quart Face...), and elaborates his own multimedia stage solo projects with his company Murmur Music (Le Chant du Bouc, Shaman Reset...).



Ines Birkhan
Born in Vienna, living in Berlin since 2005, she studied fine arts and sculpture at the Academie of Applied Arts in Vienna, then dance and choreography at the SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam. Since then she continuously works on her own performances and film/video, such as Alpiner Exorzismus (2003/2004), Butterflies, Sex and Hypochondria (2005), Mythen der Zukunft (2005/2006), den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen (2006/2007). She danced with/for Barbara Kraus, Kurt Koegel, Benoit Lachambre, Frans Poelstra, Robert Steijn, Frank van den Ven, Lito Walkey and others. Since 2004 she is co-director of the company Real Dance Super Sentai. Since a few years she is also producing work as an author and wrote several short stories (Peter Lang Verlag) and a novel.



Samuel Bodart
Samuel Bodart is the drummer, composer, author and singer of numero h, a music collective he created in 2001. After several experiences as a drummer for 'classic' rock bands, he gets involved in 1998 into personal composition rooted in both drumming and writing. Together with different guest musicians and technicians, he's renewing his work for everything stage performance or recording (so far 2 CDs and 3 shows).



Bertram Dhellemmes
Lives and works in Berlin. First works as a visual artist, a video maker and a musician, then combines these different disciplines to transmedia practice, such as cinema (Alpiner Exorzimus with Ines Bikhan, 2004, short movie Partie 0.1, 1998) and transmedia performances (Oudapo, L.I.S.I.M., Ubik, N log h…). From his performer involvement, studies and works since 1996 with long term dancers of Min Tanaka's butoh company Maijuku, and with Min Tanaka himself, a. o. during a stay in Japan in 1999. His last years are mainly dedicated to dance — a. o. creating and directing the company Real Dance Super Sentai in 2003 — most of the time relating with music, video, new media and spatial devices, in an on-going transmedia research. Also art and cinema critic and theoretician.



Rebecca Fratini
Rebecca Fratini, was born in Sweden in 1981. She started her dance education at Danscenter in Stockholm and received her degree at Tanzakademie Balance 1 in Berlin in 2006. Since September of 2006 she has been working on her own projects as a choreographer and dancer. Among these projects were 2 Imperfect Drops shown at the TanzTage Berlin, Klimazone26 performed in 48 Stunden Neukölln, and Moora wich was a solo dance performance created for an exhibition in Warmsen.



Nelli Nolde
Nelli Nolde, born in 1984 in Kazakhstan, received her dance education in Dance Works Berlin and graduated in 2007 – and during her studies she collected various experiences as dancer and choreographer. In 2005 she worked together with UDK Berlin for the dance evening Bass in Motion. In 2006 she showed several performances in collaboration with Dance Works Berlin and also worked for the short-film Who broke the Vase of Naivesuper Film Produktion and the music video of Daddy Freddy Bring The Girls. In summer 2007 she danced in Crowded Action for the Shua Group from Jersey City, USA. In the coming year she will participate to the video project Studies 1 (on Medea) of Jürgen Bogle, which will be shown in the Berliner Tanztage festival.



Zohar Ren Karni
Zohar Ren Karni studied dance in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, also studied theatre and capoeira and practiced various movement styles. Living and working in Berlin since 2 years, she worked with the avant-garde dance collective Shady Rock and Cheese Pie - choreographer Sarah Beth Oppenheim -, participated in the dance film and performance Three Women by Dianamaria Spandlowski, and danced and acted in the music video clip Malkat Hakita by Thomas P. Karni (Israel). In 2006, she performed her solo T.A.C.T.I.C/in10city in Dock 11, Berlin.

making of the masks 1


25 October 2007

another final cast

so after the last audition we can set the final cast: David Bausseron, Ines Birkhan, Samuel Bodart, Bertram Dhellemmes, Rebecca Fratini, Nelli Nolde & Zohar Ren Karni will be part of this project - starting next week in Schloß Bröllin. We will present them in details in the next posts. We decided to keep our previous dancers 's bios on this blog because though they stepped out they have been part of this whole adventure and well, a blog is a blog, we don't rewrite history...

23 October 2007

die Welt als wilde Vostellung presentation in Schloß Bröllin > 14 November 2007

At the end of the 10-day residence in Schloß Bröllin, Real Dance Super Sentai will propose a work-in-progress presentation of the first stage of die Welt als wilde Vorstellung.

Schloß Bröllin
14 November 2007 - 8:00 pm
Bröllin 3 D-17309 Fahrenwalde
Tel:+49-039747-5650 - 0
info@broellin.de
www.broellin.de

16 October 2007

3 October 2007

29 September 2007

auditions

So we are currently still having auditions for new dancers - always good opportunities to meet interesting people, whether we will work with them or not... Next audition will be 13th October in Dock 11.



audition on Friday 28 October



21 September 2007

excerpt from the production file...

The "Die Welt als wilde Vorstellung" performance project is conceived from the desire to redefine dance out of its current artistic ghetto and to give it the ambition to reach again an open audience. Art is tautological by essence, so it is not really necessary to emphasize exclusively on this dimension and lose the possibility to address an audience which is not dedicated to the sharpest art research. This doesn't mean that our work is not sharp, demanding or experimental, this means that we don't want to restrict our work to an endless manifestation of the latest trend of "l'art pour l'art" while television is the media that has to deal explicitly with the 21st century forms of the great invariants of human culture: death, sex, love, magic, power, struggle...

In our artistic itineraries, we also encountered other cultures where dance keeps its cathartic role – together with music and theatre –, and provides a strong support to unifying myths. Witnessing either the various forms of Asian opera (Noh, Kabuki, Katakali, Ramayana, Chinese Opera...) or community dances in Africa and South-America have made obvious a lack in Western culture – where presumptuous modernity together with Judaeo-Christian rejection of physicality generated a poor choreographic drive.

We didn’t base our process on ethnological studies but on our understanding and feeling as art involved audience of what we saw of traditional dance and music theatre. Mainly from Asian forms we gathered some elements that we intend to renew and adapt for contemporary western stage: a narrative line – though quite abstract and essentially known beforehand by the audience – involving myths related to essential moments of human lives ; a real conjunction of dance and music with live musicians on stage ; the expressivity of dance and play linked to stylization and the establishing of a evocative dance vocabulary ; the use of elaborated costumes, masks, make-up, props and sets to set identifiable and strong characters.

These elements are to be found also in western culture, though not in the dance scene – but on television, cinema, also in rock concerts and carnivals. So of course we don't intend to imitate traditional eastern theatre but to identify the elements we need to elaborate a cathartic performance in our own post-modern European culture. For example, vampires are recurrent characters of main narrative productions in the last 15 years, pornography settled itself as a new autonomous culture (maybe the most recent original creation of the early century – whether you like it or not), in the same period, politicians are using the most regressive rhetoric directly from pulp comics to justify their wars… This tells a lot about us, but why should this be told only by the cheap propaganda of dominant medias? It is of our responsibility to feed this to performing arts and explore at the most sensitive levels the deep correlates of such things and bring the result to the audience through demanding dance and music.

Our dance is rooted in post-(post-)modern dance practice, non-European traditions, pop culture and radical experimentation. The creators of Real Dance Super Sentai have in common to have practised Body Weather (a creative dance technique initiated by butoh dancer Min Tanaka and taught a. o. in Body Weather Amsterdam) and to value rock culture as the highest manifestation of the modernist project. This background led us to work far from pre-established and abstract dance forms and reach for expressionism and authenticity. Though our agenda is significant, joy and physicality are the drives that will carry the whole project – providing to the audience an intense and multifaceted experience.

"Die Welt als wilde Vorstellung" is based both on the millenary model of the quest saga and the staging of a rock concert. A main heroic character will be confronted to various situations (some directions: the rape, the penis contest, the riot, the fight with the giant white crocodile...) easily readable but without more meanings than the ones the audience will be willing to put in them. The musicians sharing the stage with the dancers are both the antic choir and providers of an intense soundtrack. Contemporary narrative has been improved by experimentation in novels or cinema, and new media such as video games or internet surfing, and is no longer limited to linear telling, and we will keep this saga open to the widest understanding.

25 August 2007

24 August 2007

Residenz

So things keep on changing... Due to the personal changes and the modification of the project, the residence in Schloß Bröllin is postponed to Novembre 2007. So far we didn't solve the casting problem, so now we have time to reconsider things carefully... Next week we will be performing in Brussels in les Bains::Connective (together with David Bausseron a. o.) so that's anaway the next focus...

17 August 2007

Turbulenz

We are now entering a zone of turbulence - one month before the beginning of the residence we have to recast the whole think. We thought we found a good balance of dancers whose different skills would create a strong synergy, unfortunately after Kyung-sun, Helga is also stepping out and as they are both very specific dancers we don't intend to just replace them but to rethink all this... So we are looking for new dancers - checking out our network of Body Weather practitioners but also exploring the Berlin scene - and we anyway intended to involve new musicians at an earlier stage of the research process ; but on such short notice it will be difficult - though not impossible ! We have options, the difficulty is to combine the different schedules and make them fit in the last term - the residence has to happen before the end of 2007...

Anyway we had good shows in Dock 11 in the In Girum...#1 programme, with full room each 4 evenings and attentive audience - Berlin is undoubtfully the right place for our work !

26 July 2007

AK47

You probably wonder why there is now the picture of a AK47 war gun at the top of this page... In the last months we kept on researching about how traditional dance & music theatre can create its space in modern culture. But admiring Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian or Indian theatre is not enough, also it can be counterproductive because we don't intend to reproduce or imitate them - so we reached the stage of taking distance with these influences to now explore the western culture in this current 'hypermodern episteme' to quote Foucault, to pick the substance of our work... And the modernist project of the early 20th century avant-gardes, this marriage of technology and primitivism sang by the futurists, actually happened, but not the the best, just like the release of the dark side wanted by the surrealists didn't free mankind but led to the merchandising of desire... So when we try to embody the spirit of times, this gun is alas a inevitable icon. At the bottom of the page is its negative double, an electric guitar, the proof that technology and violence can also generate art.




25 July 2007

In girum...

a first collaboration between Helga Wretman and Bertram Dhellemmes will happen in the frame of the programme In Girum...#1 in Dock 11 in August 2007 ; Helga and Bertram will propose the instant composition performance "Untitled". On the same evenings Ines Birkhan will show her last solo project "Butterfly, sex & hypochondria".



more information on http://dock11-berlin.de & http://ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni.blogspot.com




Also in September, David Bausseron, Bertram Dhellemmes & Ines Birkhan will be part of Belgian dancer/choreographer Julien Bruneau's improvisation project "Seconde Main", in les Bains::Connective, and in that frame Ines will show "Butterfly, sex & hypochondria" as a duo with cellist Sylvia Platzer.





more information on http://unterhalt.blogspot.com

23 July 2007

casting 3

Well, nothing can be taken for granted, so the cast had some modifications in the last weeks... Unfortunatly Kyung-sun Baek had to step out of the project, but she will not be replaced by another dancer - a new musician is actually joining the crew, the French guitar player and performer David Bausseron. His collaboration will influence our aesthetics to something more electric - that is anyway our current mood 6 weeks before the beginning of the residence in Schloß Bröllin.



David Bausseron
Musician and performer based in Lille, David Bausseron plays guitar and MIDI guitar with several improvised and experimental music groups (La Pieuvre, De Nouvelles Erreurs, X-trio, Electric Cue...) but also provides his guitarist skills to pop bands (Oublis Miniatures, Numéro h...) and composes film music (Le Témoin Muet...). As a actor, performer and musician he collaborated to dance and theatre projects with companies Real Dance Super Sentai, A.T.T.I.L.A, Trois Quart Face...), and elaborates his own multimedia stage solo projects with his company Murmur Music (Le Chant du Bouc, Shaman Reset...).


14 March 2007

casting 2

The definitive cast for the performance is now set (see details in the previous post), including Kyung-sun Baek, Ines Birkhan, Sahra Huby & Helga Wretman as dancers & Bertram Dhellemmes & Peter Orins as musicians. Sessions will happen regularly in Berlin until the September residence in Schloß Bröllin.

2 February 2007

casting


Ines Birkhan

Born in Vienna, living in Berlin since 2005, she studied fine arts and sculpture at the Academie of Applied Arts in Vienna, then dance and choreography at the SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam. Since then she continuously works on her own performances and film/video, such as Alpiner Exorzismus (2003/2004), Butterflies, Sex and Hypochondria (2005), Mythen der Zukunft (2005/2006), den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen (2006/2007).

She danced with/for Kyung-sun Baek, Julien Bruneau, Bertram Dhellemmes, Barbara Gene, Nora Heilman, Barbara Kraus, Kurt Koegel, Benoit Lachambre, Frans Poelstra, Michael Schumacher, Robert Steijn, Frank van den Ven, Lito Walkey and others. Since 2004 she is co-director of the company Real Dance Super Sentai. Since a few years she is also producing work as an author and wrote several short stories and a novel.




Bertram Dhellemmes

Lives and works in Berlin. First works as a visual artist, a video maker and a musician (two CDs released on the label Kinpatsu, another one on Even Stilte), then combines these different disciplines to transmedia practice, such as cinema (Alpiner Exorzimus with Ines Bikhan, 2004, short movie Partie 0.1, 1998) and transmedia performances (Oudapo, L.I.S.I.M., Ubik, N log h…). From his performer involvement, studies and works since 1996 with long term dancers of Min Tanaka's butoh company Maijuku, particularly with Christine Quoiraud and Body Weather Amsterdam (Frank van de Ven, Katerina Bakatsaki), and with Min Tanaka himself, a. o. during a stay in Japan in 1999, while also taking classes of Akira Kasai and Kazuo Ohno.
His last years are mainly dedicated to dance — a. o. creating and directing the company Real Dance Super Sentai for the creation of Of human being as an animal degenerated by intelligence in 2003 — most of the time relating with music, video, new media and spatial devices, in an on-going transmedia research. Also art and cinema critic and theoretician.




Kyung-sun Baek

Dancer and choreographer based in the Netherlands, born in 1975 in Korea. From 2001 to 2003 attended the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Performed in several projects with amongst others, Robert Steijn, Carolien Hermans, Hooman Sharifi, Amy Cox, etc. ; improvisation with Katie Duck, Michael Schumacher, Sylvan Meret, etc.
Last performances (2006): ‘Melting stone’ (dance and choreography), Amsterdam - ‘Die Zauberflote’ opera choreographed by Min Tanaka, Salzburg - ‘The Bush Administration’ by Robert Steijn, Amsterdam - Improvisation with Magpie Music & Dance Company, Amsterdam - ‘Talk to speaker’ by Amy cox, Arheim - ‘Not the real very end’ by Amy Cox, Amsterdam.




Sahra Huby


Sahra Huby was born in Brussels, where she studied painting, movement and dance (Therapeutic Dance with Stefane Chapelle 2000-2003, Butoh with Masaki Iwana, Carlotta Ikeda, Pé Vermeersch & Body Weather Amsterdam, Lecoq´s Method at the International School of Theater Lassaad 2002-2003). She afterward studied contemporary dance at Die Etage in Berlin (2004-2006). She currently works as a dancer with different choreographers – mainly with Anna Konjetzky and her company Akate –, and teaches Butoh in Germany and Belgium.




Helga Wretman

Helga got her professional dance education at the Royal Swedisch Ballet School (contemporary part) during which she participated in many productions in the Stockholm Opera Haus. She choreographed and performed in different dance spaces such as Dansens Hus, mostly as a member of D-Company (Isadora Duncan dance company), and Orion Theatern. In 2005, Helga moved to Berlin to explore the German dance scene and stayed there to work as a freelance dancer with different choreographers, artists, film makers and designers, such as Tomi Paasonen, Paul Julius and Steven Dwonsky.





Peter Orins

Composer & musician (drums, electronics) based in Lille, plays with several groups, ranging from jazz to pop music via improvisation and experimental music. Numerous concerts and CDs with Impression (jazz, Circum-Disc/DOM Disques 2004 - Lyrae Records/DAM Records 2000), Stefan Orins Trio (jazz, Circum-Disc/DOM Disques 2006 & 2004), Circum Grand Orchestra (jazz big band, Circum-Disc 2005), La Pieuvre (improvisation big band, Helix/Circum-Disc 2007), Vera Clouzot (pop music, Spirit of Jungle/Wagram 1999, 2001 & 2003). Concerts with Quartet Base, Electropus, De Nouvelles Erreurs, FayeWongEuroFanClub, Barnum, Sheetah et les Weissmuller

Composed the music for the movie Les Aveugles of Jean-Luc Perreard (Prix Kielowski 1998, Prix du Festival de Villeurbanne), and the performances N log h 6./Jazz & Triphan. Founding member and administrator of Circum, musicians’ collective, concert organisation and records label based in Lille, France > www.circum-music.com.

sketches for characters and costumes



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