Borders & Corners
DANCE PERFORMANCE | GRUPO OITO
What are our Borders & Corners? What kind of stories rest in our corners? Which boundaries do they reveal, and what do they confront? Balancing between the inside and outside, blurring the boundaries between performance and reality.
Borders mark the limits of different areas, perceptions, bodies. Who defines the difference upon which the border’s legitimacy is built? In their inconsistency, borders are geographies of confrontation, moments of reflection, constantly challenging the balance of a status quo. Along the borderlines, the undesirable, hidden and repressed accumulate in corners. As past and present blur in the histories stacked on top of each other filling up the corners, their secrets decay and erupt.
Premiere: January 6th | 2020 | Halle Tanzbühne, Berlin
Choreography: Ricardo de Paula
Partners: Mime Centrum Berlin, Literary Colloquium BerlinFunded by: Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin, Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
About the Performance
Borders & Corners takes on a journey to these places, follows them on global maps, on the streets of Berlin, between people and within themselves. In an assemblage of improvisation, live music, and live video art, borders and boundaries are negotiated in a constant act of balance: intersectional stories move from marginal peripheries into an imaginary center where perspectives and memories meet, where they complement and contradict each other. They echo between the walls of the theatre, questioning inside and outside, the boundary between performance and reality.
Artistic Director & Choreographer: Ricardo de Paula Assistant Director: Franziska Doffi
Performers and Co-Creators: Caroline Alves, Laura Alonso, Martina Garbelli, Miro Wallner, Natalie Riedelsheimer, Ricardo de Paula Dramaturgy: Nora Tormann Live Music: Olaf Giesbrecht Video Artists: Kathleen Kuntah + Zé de Paiva Lighting Design: Domenik Engemann Costume Design: Andreina Vieira Stage Technique: Jan Römer Production management: MIFRUSH Production [Micaela Trigo] Funded by: District Office Pankow for further education and culture of Berlin | Senate Department for Culture and Europe | HALLE Tanzbühne Berlin