dance performance 

 

WILD is a word that has been used and misused for centuries. It brings up colonial associations of the "savage", the "frontier" as well as the "untameable woman". It reeks of both the civilizing project of modernity and romantic eurocentric projections onto land and body. But could we possibly craft new meanings for this word? Taking these associations into consideration, this work attempts to return to a state of simplicity that inevitably opens up a web of complexity, as we contemplate and reconsider what "wildness" could feel like today. The artistic research and choreographic process was essentially an embodied one that was developed with and within the Wandlitz Forest. Through a prolonged period of immersion, we acquainted our bodies with the technologies of soil, of rotting leaves, of damp and cold, of tree roots and insects - opening ourselves to a different understanding of time and space. Through a rigorous practice of listening, witnessing and maintaining a meditative state of embodied experience, we followed a red thread that enabled us to go beyond our conceptions of "wild" and arrive at a place where ideas and action meet in the perennial state of becoming. It is no small task, languishing this sacred act of ritual through performance, this meeting place of the body, the earth and technologies (both ancient and new). The work gently invites both the viewer and performer to feel into the doing and undoing of a choreography that is composed of presence. A Dance of silence. Dance of being and observing. 

 

 

Credits 

 

Clara Federica Crescini : concept and choreography

Antonio Savoia and Alessandra Sparano : research and dance

Sara Paternesi: research and assistant choreography

Michela Filzi and Nicola van Straaten : dramaturgy 

Mariana Varela : stage 

Emilia Patrignani : costume 

David Szubiak : light 

Samaquias Lorta : music 

Sigal Zouk and Jan Burkhardt : artistic mentors 

Wanda Golonka and Susanne Vincenz : academic support 

Ludger Storcks : photography 

Andreas Harder : technical director 

Filippo Michelangelo Ceredi and Clara Federica Crescini : video shooting and editing 

Holytropic team and Alica Minarova : video shooting 

 

With the friendly support of HZT Berlin, HfS, a DeutschlandStipendium, PROMOS DAAD, of the Deutscher Bühnenverein Landesverband Berlin and MOVIN'UP SPETTACOLO - PERFORMING ARTS 2020 promoted by MIBACT Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism - General Directorate for Performing Arts and GAI Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists together with TPP Puglia Public Theater - Apulia Region and GA/ER Association Young Italian Artists of Emilia-Romagna