Lucinda Childs & Dance On Ensemble

Choreography & Performance: Lucinda Childs
Performance: Miki Orihara

Artistic Collaboration (set/music/video): Hans Peter Kuhn
Lights: Martin Beeretz, Hans Peter Kuhn
Costumes: werkstattkollektiv
Technical Direction: Martin Beeretz
Sound Technique: Mattef Kuhlmey

Production: DANCE ON / Bureau Ritter. In cooperation with Radialsystem, Berlin.
Coproduction: CCNR Rillieux-la-pape – Yuval Pick, Le Phare – Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Normandie / direction Fouad Boussouf, as part of the Accueil-Studio Programme.
Coproduction to be confirmed: Torino Danza, La Villette Paris, Julidans Amsterdam.

Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
With the kind support of Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon.
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Premiere: July 2025, Radialsystem Berlin

STEIN is the second production in the Dance On series Encounters, where choreographers perform on stage, engaging in a physical encounter with a dancer of the Ensemble who takes on the role of co-author. This time, the choreographer Lucinda Childs and our dancer Miki Orihara will perform together, reflecting on a text by Gertrude Stein.

Lucinda Childs’ works explore the mutability of space and the manipulation of time through pattern recognition, rhythmic accuracy, and surprising changes in physical material. After leaving the Judson Dance Theater, she embraced a new approach, moving away from its principles of spoken word, found objects and pedestrian actions to incorporate text, music, gesture, and dance. In STEIN, Childs reflects on her earlier works through the lens of decades of experience.

Alongside her performes Miki Orihara, a powerful and sensitive dancer with an extensive background in works with Robert Wilson, Broadway productions, and the Martha Graham Company.

The stage is enhanced by video projections from Hans Peter Kuhn’s archive, depicting oceanic surfaces, evoking fluidity, changeability, and the constant state of water.

The Encounters series challenges traditional roles of choreographer and dancer by positioning the dancer as a co-author, exploring shared creative processes and the relationship between choreography and interpretation.

To complete the evening, the Dance On Ensemble will present three works of Lucinda Childs from the 1970’s: Untitled Trio, Radial Courses, Interior Drama.

The restaging is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.