Production Details / Press Releases
Simultaneously, a dance solo and sensory concert.
Songs, Signs (ASL, DGS), speeches, moans, thrashes, come together to create a sonic, vibrating, visual concert experience. A celebration of Voice. Seen Voice. Heard Voice. Felt Voice. Homaging the likes of Prince, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. Synthesizing the iconic idiosyncrasies of stadium-level performers.
Working with a team of CODA, Deaf, hearing, and hard of hearing artists, Lukas is exploring ‘accessibility’ through simultaneity and reference. Each scene of this performance is saturated with visual, vibrational and sonic stimulation, often engaging 2 senses simultaneously. Lukas’s choreographies often propose sound vibration and movement simultaneously, inspired by ‘SIM-COM’(simultaneous communication): the act of Signing what you are speaking, at the exact same time; a tool often used by CODAs when having to communicate to audiences of Deaf and hearing people at the same time.
Lukas Malkowski is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult), performance maker and Aquarius based between Canada/Germany, working with embodiments of physics, voice, and Sign. As a choreographer fluent in English and American Sign Language, “Microphone Controller” is his first ‘CODA’ work; a loud, highly visual rock concert that considers his lived experiences as a CODA, and the perspectives of Deaf and hearing audiences.
lukasmalkowski.com
[Source: ada-studio.de]
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Cast & Credits
Choreography & Performance: Lukas Malkowski
Dramaturgy: Antonia Gersch
Music Production & Vocal Coaching: Roland Meyer de Voltaire
Costume: Moussi Bang
Artistic Dialogue & Outside Eye: Rita Mazza
DGS Coaching: Pinky Aiello
ASL Coaching: Gaitrie Persaud-Killings
Lighting Design & technical management: Rob Prideaux
Original Lighting Design: Chris Malkowski
Caption Design & Vision: Julia Cremers
Videography & photography: Drew Berry
The research for “Microphone Controller” is supported by the Tanzpraxis 2022/23 scholarship of the Berlin Culture Senate, Research funding by Goethe Institute, dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival, SummerWorks Festival Toronto, and Tanzhaus Zürich.
neworks – Aesthetics of Access #3
Curated by Maria Ladopoulos and Liisi Hint
ada studio
Artistic Direction & Management: Gabi Beier
Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
ada Studio in den Uferstudios
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)