Embodied Practices: Alexandre Achour „Dance with me“
Embodied cognition, live action and role playing
Workshop
© Svea Immel
Accompanying the programme series “Conjunctions – Acts of being in relation”, Radialsystem continues the “Embodied Practices” format. In a four-hour session, choreographer Alexandre Achour will present his practice format “Dance with me” for the first time in Berlin.
“Dance with me” is part of an ongoing project called “Choreographic Games” that explores the intersection between choreography and Nordic Live Action Role Playing Games (LARP). LARP is a type of immersive game in which participants embody characters and play fictional scenarios. “Dance with me” focuses on the idea of “choreography without centre”, which are dynamic choreographic structures that decentre singular perspectives and aesthetics. The LARP is based on the fiction of a rehearsal and a performance and explores the intricate space between support as a principle of work and authority of the singular artist. It is a mix between wordless movement scenes and verbal scenes during which participants are invited to experience immersion, co-creation, togetherness, dissent, and above all playfulness.
Cast
Concept
Alexandre Achour
Nina Runa Essendrop
Workshop
Alexandre Achour
Documentation
Svea Immel
Biographien
Alexandre Achour ist ein in Berlin lebender Choreograf. Er arbeitet als freischaffender Künstler, Lehrer und Performer in der darstellenden, bildenden und Behindertenkunst. In seinen jüngsten Arbeiten erforscht er Arturo Escobars dekoloniales Konzept des Pluriversums, d.h. die Idee der Koexistenz mehrerer Welten und des Flusses zwischen alternativen Seinsweisen. Er schafft choreografische Rahmen, die Künstler*innen aus verschiedensten kulturellen Kontexten wie Syrien, Indien, Indonesien, Serbien, Hongkong, Macao, China, Südafrika, Iran und den USA zusammenbringen, um gemeinsam Welten zu weben und eine Poetik des Miteinanders, der Interdependenz und Relationalität zu erforschen.
Programme
The practice format is open to all dancers and people who are interested in movement and expression.
Language
In English
With Conjunctions - Acts of being in relation, a new programme series dedicated to the poetry of “being in relation” launches at Radialsystem in July 2024. Audiences are invited to experience choreographic and musical practices as embodied strategies of knowledge production and transmission over four acts, each with a different thematic emphasis. The separation between body and mind, the dualism of thought and action, and the notion of a universality of knowledge are contrasted with a variety of possibilities of knowledge production that arise with and from the reality of differently situated bodies.
Reflections on how embodied practices can create temporary communities are centred, as well as which power relations become visible in this process, and which new imaginative sphere and emancipatory strategies result from embodied relationships. In addition to immersive performances, concerts and choreographic works, our exchange format Embodied Practices continues parallel to the new series, and collectively explores forms of preserving and transmitting corporeal practices from different cultural contexts.
Credits
Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR programme with the #Take-
Heart process funding programme. This project is part of a larger research project supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe with the Tanzpraxis programme.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: tip Berlin, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung
Accompanying the programme series “Conjunctions – Acts of being in relation”, Radialsystem continues the “Embodied Practices” format. In a four-hour session, choreographer Alexandre Achour will present his practice format “Dance with me” for the first time in Berlin.
“Dance with me” is part of an ongoing project called “Choreographic Games” that explores the intersection between choreography and Nordic Live Action Role Playing Games (LARP). LARP is a type of immersive game in which participants embody characters and play fictional scenarios. “Dance with me” focuses on the idea of “choreography without centre”, which are dynamic choreographic structures that decentre singular perspectives and aesthetics. The LARP is based on the fiction of a rehearsal and a performance and explores the intricate space between support as a principle of work and authority of the singular artist. It is a mix between wordless movement scenes and verbal scenes during which participants are invited to experience immersion, co-creation, togetherness, dissent, and above all playfulness.
Cast
Concept
Alexandre Achour
Nina Runa Essendrop
Workshop
Alexandre Achour
Documentation
Svea Immel
Biographies
Alexandre Achour ist ein in Berlin lebender Choreograf. Er arbeitet als freischaffender Künstler, Lehrer und Performer in der darstellenden, bildenden und Behindertenkunst. In seinen jüngsten Arbeiten erforscht er Arturo Escobars dekoloniales Konzept des Pluriversums, d.h. die Idee der Koexistenz mehrerer Welten und des Flusses zwischen alternativen Seinsweisen. Er schafft choreografische Rahmen, die Künstler*innen aus verschiedensten kulturellen Kontexten wie Syrien, Indien, Indonesien, Serbien, Hongkong, Macao, China, Südafrika, Iran und den USA zusammenbringen, um gemeinsam Welten zu weben und eine Poetik des Miteinanders, der Interdependenz und Relationalität zu erforschen.
