PRODUCTIONS
WILLOW TREE
A dance piece by Dance On Lab Berlin
- © Phil Dera
In this touching dance piece, we meet ten women who embark on an emotional journey. They are in search of protection from the unpleasant and often intangible challenges of life. In a world characterized by sensory overload, they are faced with the task of preserving themselves and their inner center. Together they navigate through life's uncertain moments, encouraging each other not to fall into stagnation but to move forward courageously. “Willow tree” is a tribute to resilience and the strength not to give up, even in life's challenging times.
PREMIERE: 25 October 2024, 6pm
at the Centre Français, Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin (Berlin Wedding)
The event is free of charge!
Choreography: Laura Böttinger
Dance: Dance On Lab Berlin (Hedy Friese, Eva Günther, Angela Haardt, Gudrun Korittke, Martina Krause, Valvanaaken, Joan Plank, Ingeborg Rasch, Monika Ungruhe, Bärbel Walter)
Technical direction and lighting: Gretchen Blegen
Sound: Mattef Kuhlmey
After the performance, you are warmly invited to chat with the artistic team over a drink in the foyer.
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AMOURUOMA
PREMIERE: June 30, 2023, 7 p.m. | Centre Français, Berlin Wedding
- © Yan Revazov
A performance of the Dance On Lab by Nicole Berndt-Caccivio
In AMOURUOMA, performers with life experience explore their emotional memories related to love, falling in love, breakups, jealousy, and all the other facets that emerge. From the puzzle pieces, images emerge that are expressed and performed through the body, dance, and perhaps the voice. A feeling like "butterflies in the stomach" might turn into a brilliant, improvised solo. A state like "hurt and left alone" possibly leads to a group choreography.
Choreography: Nicole Berndt-Caccivio
Dancers: Hedy Friese, Eva Günther, Angela Haardt, Gudrun Korittke, Martina Krause, Walburga Pauels, Joan Plank, Claudia Knaus, Ingeborg Rasch, Monika Ungruhe, Bärbel Walter (Dance On Lab Berlin)
Sound: Mattef Kuhlmey
Light: Martin Beeretz
Duration: approx. 30 minutes
Nicole Berndt-Caccivio was born in 1963 in Biel and is a Swiss dancer, choreographer and lecturer in contemporary dance. She is the artistic director of the Age Company in Vienna, founded in 2009, which deals with art for and with older people. With the project "Collective Spheres", founded in 2020, she connects with younger dancers and choreographers on different artistic, pedagogical and performative levels.
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Tideland
Only very special images remain in us, in our bodies and our memories. From shared moments, a fan opens up to individual frames of mind. In "tideland" they go in search of the common and individual understanding of things. They run across, disturb, collect and dive deep.
PREMIERE: 18 June 2022, Elixir Festival, Sadler`s Wells, London
https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/elixir-extracts-2022-programme-b/
© Jubal Battisti
Concept/Choreography: Laura Böttinger
Cast: Hedy Friese, Eva Günther, Angela Haardt, Gudrun Korittke, Martina Krause, Walburga Pauels, Joan Plank, Claudia Knaus, Ingeborg Rasch, Monika Ungruhe, Bärbel Walter, Maria Wollny
Sound: Mattef Kuhlmey
Lighting:Arno Truschinski
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Impuls 13
A dance piece by 13 women over 60.
Premiere: 08 September 2019, 6 pm, 12 Apostelkirche, An der Apostelkirche 1, 10783 Berlin
Additional performance: 12 September 2019, 7 pm, Kiezzentrum Villa Lützow, Lützowstraße 28, 10785 Berlin
Free entrance
Concept/Choreography: Laura Böttinger
Dance: Jutta Barth, Eva Günther, Angela Haardt, Gudrun Korittke, Martina Krause, Walburga Pauels, Joan Plank, Angelika Pohlig, Ingeborg Rasch, Rosa-Maria Rose, Monika Ungruhe, Bärbel Walter, Maria Wollny
With support by Künstlerhaus Lukas
Thanks to Tanzfabrik Berlin
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Life Lines
In the frame of OUT OF NOW – DANCE ON Festival
© Dorothea Tuch
Concept/Choreography: Martin Nachbar and Laura Böttinger
Sound: Boris Hauf
Cast: Ingeborg Rasch, Walpurga Pauels, Maria Wollny, Volker Sobottke, Gudrun Korittke, Joan Plank, Doris Breitenbach, Eva Günther
Production: DANCE ON/DIEHL+RITTER. Thanks to Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Developed in collaboration with Martin Nachbar, Laura Böttinger and the dancers of the DANCE ON ENSEMBLE with amateurs 60+, Life Lines builds on the idea of a living archive within each moving body that lights up whole stories through minimal and everyday movements. Action, embodiment, space, and courage are four components that direct the performers in the process towards choreography.