Breathing Rivers: Tirana
Performance by Luísa Saraiva
Performance / Tanz Festival
„Tirana“ – Luísa Saraiva © Diana Tinoco
Dates
Fr 18:30h German Premiere of the Stage Version
Sa 18:30h Mit Audiodeskription & Haptic Access Tour
Ticket Prices
16 Euros, discount 12 Euros
→ „Breathing Rivers“-Festival Ticket: 26 Euros, discount 20 Euros
The festival ticket is valid for all events on the "Breathing Rivers" weekend, the days and times can be freely combined.
Ticket Prices
16 Euros, discount 12 Euros
→ „Breathing Rivers“-Festival Ticket: 26 Euros, discount 20 Euros
The festival ticket is valid for all events on the "Breathing Rivers" weekend, the days and times can be freely combined.
Tirana
: Kind of fandango
: Old popular Spanish song of moderate movement and syncopated rhythm in triple time, arising from one that began with the words ¡Ay, tirana, tirana!
: An ungrateful, elusive, or evil woman.
: Cruel woman
„Tirana“ is an immersive sound choreography that explores singing physicalities, body pneumatics and the limits of the female voice, both in pitch and volume. The work addresses gender issues through the production and interpretation of sound. Inspiration is gathered from Portuguese folk songs and female polyphonic repertoire, which are traditionally sung in a loud and expansive manner and address themes of female labour, motherhood and violence. Sound artist Inês Tartaruga Água, created an instrument for the work, bringing vast attention to the haptic nature of sound and the relationship of different resonant bodies in space. By creating movement and sound landscapes, there is a search for the spaces in between, from breath to song.
„Breathing Rivers“-Festival
Located on the Spree River, Radialsystem was originally one of Berlin's first pumping stations, diverting wastewater from the rapidly growing city in the late 19th century. As part of the summer festival “Breathing Rivers,” today's Radialsystem explores our relationship to life and water from 20–23 July 2023 with works by choreographers Amanda Piña, Lina Gómez and Luísa Saraiva. “Breathing Rivers” aims to open spaces of experience in which we collectively remember the continuity of all that is living, which has experienced ruptures through the thought and action of European modernity. Disruptions between human and nature, body and mind, or through cleaving categorizations such as gender and race, behind which exploitation, violence and injustice find their justification. A re-consideration of the inseparable embeddedness of the human being in a larger context begins here with the body as a place of experience and knowledge production. Instead of a notion of a universality of knowledge, Breathing Rivers proposes a multiplicity of possibilities of knowledge production that emerges with and from the reality of differently situated bodies.
Cast
Choreography and Artistic Direction
Luísa Saraiva
Soundinstallation and Instruments
Inês Tartaruga Água
Performance
Alina Folini (für Alice Heyward)
Fabíola Augusta
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso
Luísa Saraiva
Outside Ear and Dramaturgical Support
Francisco Antão
Research
Alice Heyward
Luísa Saraiva
Julius Gabriel
Costume
Isabelle Lange
Light Design
Thaís Nepomuceno
Research and Breathing Training
Sudeep Kumar Puthyaparambath
Vocal Coach
Fabíola Augusta
Production
Apricot Productions (DE)
Joana Silva (PT)
Thanks to
Grupo de Folclore Terras de Arões
Grupo de Cantares do Paúl
Arnaldo Saraiva
Niklaus Bein
Alex Sandro Malheiro
Biographien
Alice Heyward is a dancer, choreographer, editor and teacher. She works internationally and feels home in Melbourne and Berlin. Her most recent project 'do you feel the same' is a collaboration with artist Fanny Gicquel for Hua International (Berlin). Alice is working regularly as a performer with Maria Hassabi. She is currently engaged in Chloe Chingell's new project 'Public Relations'. She is a Klein TechniqueTM teacher, undertaking a certification program with Susan Klein. www.aliceheyward.com
Alina Ruiz Folini is a non binary artist, choreographer and performer from Argentina, currently based between Lisbon and Amsterdam. Their work navigates through choreography, dance, writing and curatorial practices. Master in Visual Culture and Scenic Practices 2018 (Madrid, Reina Sofía Museum) and current student of DAS Choreography (University of Arts Amsterdam, 2022-24). Since 2014 Alina have expanded their practice by entering the interface between writing and curating, creating the international festival-platform ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. www.cargocollective.com/alinaruizfolini
Portuguese born and Berlin-based Interdisciplinary artist Fabíola Augusta, merges sculpture and movement in a limitless vocal expression. She graduated in Fine Arts - Sculpture (University of Porto and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp) and in singing at the Complete Vocal Institute in Denmark, and is now studying Creative Production (Music) at Catalyst Institute. She moves across the genres of noise, experimental, hardcore, dreamcore, freejazz, and pop in the improvised and experimental music scene. www.flowfabiola.com www.fabsasmr.com
Inês Tartaruga Água is a multidisciplinary artist, enthusiast of radical regeneration, sound explorer and supporter of the DIY philosophy. Participates in group exhibitions since 2013, and most recently, Água has premiered pieces at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves Foundation (2021 and 2022) and at Casa das Conchas (Salamanca, 2021). Co-founder of the collective REFLUXO and DIES LEXIC, Água is part of the international artistic collective “Mycelium”, music label Favela Discos and “MOSCXS” based in Porto. www.tartaruga-agua.art/
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso is a Colombian dancer based in Germany. She studied dance at the Folkwang University in Essen and the M.A. Solo/Dance/Authorship at HZT in Berlin. Her work “Masterpiece” was part of Les Urbaines Festival, TanzNRW Festival, Thecarrierbag Festival and the performance series Park at Kunstverein München. She collaborated with artists such as Leila Hekmat, caner teker , Roman Pfeifer, Sanna Helena Berger, The Düsseldorf Düsterboys, Xenia Koghilaki, Ben J. Riepe, among others.
Luísa Saraiva is a choreographer and performer born in Porto, Portugal. She studied psychology at the University of Porto and dance at the Folkwang Arts University in Essen. Her artistic practice explores the language of the body and voice and lies at the intersection of movement and musical composition. She received the danceWeb scholarship in 2019 and in the season of 2019/2020 she was one of the choreographers-in-residence at the K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg. www.luisasaraiva.com/
Audiodescription & Haptic Access Tour
Sat 22 07 2023 5.30 pm
Please register via telephone at +49 (0)30 288 788 588 or via E-Mail to ticket@radialsystem.de.
In cooperation with Gravity Access Services Berlin, Radialsystem offers audio descriptions and tactile tours for selected programmes: Audio description refers to a live audio track of professional audio descriptors transmitted via headset to audience members with visual impairments. Gravity Access Berlin's audio descriptors are professional dancers or actors and are trained to use clear and engaging language to describe the significant visual details of a performance that would be inaccessible to audience members with visual impairments. Tactile tours are 20-30 minute live tours held prior to the performance that allow visitors with visual impairments to experience the space, performers, costumes and objects, and key elements of movement within a production through touch and their own movement.
The audio descriptions are performed in German.
Credits
A production of Crybaby GbR and Associação Calote Esférica. Co-produced by Teatro do Bairro Alto, Fundação de Serralves and Museum Folkwang. Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Assistance Programme for Dance. Supported by Kunststiftung NRW, República Portuguesa - Cultura/Direcção-Geral das Artes and Kulturamt der Stadt Essen. With the support of CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva.
„Breathing Rivers“ is an event of the Radialsystem, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the Radial Stiftung.
Media partnerships: taz. die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, Exberliner and Rausgegangen.
Tirana
: Kind of fandango
: Old popular Spanish song of moderate movement and syncopated rhythm in triple time, arising from one that began with the words ¡Ay, tirana, tirana!
: An ungrateful, elusive, or evil woman.
: Cruel woman
„Tirana“ is an immersive sound choreography that explores singing physicalities, body pneumatics and the limits of the female voice, both in pitch and volume. The work addresses gender issues through the production and interpretation of sound. Inspiration is gathered from Portuguese folk songs and female polyphonic repertoire, which are traditionally sung in a loud and expansive manner and address themes of female labour, motherhood and violence. Sound artist Inês Tartaruga Água, created an instrument for the work, bringing vast attention to the haptic nature of sound and the relationship of different resonant bodies in space. By creating movement and sound landscapes, there is a search for the spaces in between, from breath to song.
„Breathing Rivers“-Festival
Located on the Spree River, Radialsystem was originally one of Berlin's first pumping stations, diverting wastewater from the rapidly growing city in the late 19th century. As part of the summer festival “Breathing Rivers,” today's Radialsystem explores our relationship to life and water from 20–23 July 2023 with works by choreographers Amanda Piña, Lina Gómez and Luísa Saraiva. “Breathing Rivers” aims to open spaces of experience in which we collectively remember the continuity of all that is living, which has experienced ruptures through the thought and action of European modernity. Disruptions between human and nature, body and mind, or through cleaving categorizations such as gender and race, behind which exploitation, violence and injustice find their justification. A re-consideration of the inseparable embeddedness of the human being in a larger context begins here with the body as a place of experience and knowledge production. Instead of a notion of a universality of knowledge, Breathing Rivers proposes a multiplicity of possibilities of knowledge production that emerges with and from the reality of differently situated bodies.
Cast
Choreography and Artistic Direction
Luísa Saraiva
Soundinstallation and Instruments
Inês Tartaruga Água
Performance
Alina Folini (für Alice Heyward)
Fabíola Augusta
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso
Luísa Saraiva
Outside Ear and Dramaturgical Support
Francisco Antão
Research
Alice Heyward
Luísa Saraiva
Julius Gabriel
Costume
Isabelle Lange
Light Design
Thaís Nepomuceno
Research and Breathing Training
Sudeep Kumar Puthyaparambath
Vocal Coach
Fabíola Augusta
Production
Apricot Productions (DE)
Joana Silva (PT)
Thanks to
Grupo de Folclore Terras de Arões
Grupo de Cantares do Paúl
Arnaldo Saraiva
Niklaus Bein
Alex Sandro Malheiro
Biographies
Alice Heyward is a dancer, choreographer, editor and teacher. She works internationally and feels home in Melbourne and Berlin. Her most recent project 'do you feel the same' is a collaboration with artist Fanny Gicquel for Hua International (Berlin). Alice is working regularly as a performer with Maria Hassabi. She is currently engaged in Chloe Chingell's new project 'Public Relations'. She is a Klein TechniqueTM teacher, undertaking a certification program with Susan Klein. www.aliceheyward.com
Alina Ruiz Folini is a non binary artist, choreographer and performer from Argentina, currently based between Lisbon and Amsterdam. Their work navigates through choreography, dance, writing and curatorial practices. Master in Visual Culture and Scenic Practices 2018 (Madrid, Reina Sofía Museum) and current student of DAS Choreography (University of Arts Amsterdam, 2022-24). Since 2014 Alina have expanded their practice by entering the interface between writing and curating, creating the international festival-platform ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. www.cargocollective.com/alinaruizfolini
Portuguese born and Berlin-based Interdisciplinary artist Fabíola Augusta, merges sculpture and movement in a limitless vocal expression. She graduated in Fine Arts - Sculpture (University of Porto and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp) and in singing at the Complete Vocal Institute in Denmark, and is now studying Creative Production (Music) at Catalyst Institute. She moves across the genres of noise, experimental, hardcore, dreamcore, freejazz, and pop in the improvised and experimental music scene. www.flowfabiola.com www.fabsasmr.com
Inês Tartaruga Água is a multidisciplinary artist, enthusiast of radical regeneration, sound explorer and supporter of the DIY philosophy. Participates in group exhibitions since 2013, and most recently, Água has premiered pieces at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves Foundation (2021 and 2022) and at Casa das Conchas (Salamanca, 2021). Co-founder of the collective REFLUXO and DIES LEXIC, Água is part of the international artistic collective “Mycelium”, music label Favela Discos and “MOSCXS” based in Porto. www.tartaruga-agua.art/
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso is a Colombian dancer based in Germany. She studied dance at the Folkwang University in Essen and the M.A. Solo/Dance/Authorship at HZT in Berlin. Her work “Masterpiece” was part of Les Urbaines Festival, TanzNRW Festival, Thecarrierbag Festival and the performance series Park at Kunstverein München. She collaborated with artists such as Leila Hekmat, caner teker , Roman Pfeifer, Sanna Helena Berger, The Düsseldorf Düsterboys, Xenia Koghilaki, Ben J. Riepe, among others.
Luísa Saraiva is a choreographer and performer born in Porto, Portugal. She studied psychology at the University of Porto and dance at the Folkwang Arts University in Essen. Her artistic practice explores the language of the body and voice and lies at the intersection of movement and musical composition. She received the danceWeb scholarship in 2019 and in the season of 2019/2020 she was one of the choreographers-in-residence at the K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg. www.luisasaraiva.com/
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