Production Details / Press Releases
we have arrived at a well-deserved breaking point
where logic can tilt to a bend….
where dreams can spill out, linger and perhaps mend…
where like minds can ravenously surrender…
into gathering
…to reevaluate how time has misbehaved and the necessity of an
interruption.
this is the intermission.
vAL
vAL (he/him) is an adopted identity of artist Corey Scott-Gilbert. vAL’s agenda is to further understand the mental state from which creation springs; concerned with sketches of possibility unconfined by genre, gender, demographic or any other limitation placed on the individual by society. The artist’s personal history of movement serves as a vehicle for interrogating their own breath, often collaging word-play and physical utterance which often serve as the foundation for their multidisciplinary playgrounds. vAL uses each creative process as an opportunity to analyze and rediscover truths that forge beyond current conformities to make space for alternative realities of otherness. vAL highlights the absurdities of an abysmal, limiting and globally omnipresent social condition, presenting curated realities where joys are not sought after but rather devoured as a means to restore a malnourished existence. The work is made to lay adjacent to the conundrums of our current world and reflect hopes that align with catharsis.
www.coreyscottgilbert.com/val
[Source: tanzfabrik-berlin.de]
TFB Nr. 1929
Cast & Credits
Concept, Choreography, Artistic direction & Text: vAL
Performer: Corey Scott-Gilbert
Sound: ILYICH
Mesh Bodysuit: SADAK
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds (HKF) and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (IMPACT Förderung). Supported by Flutgraben Performances Residencies.
Tanzfabrik Berlin / Wedding
Uferstr. 23
13357 Berlin
Video Documentation
The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):
University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)