“Mirroring” is an encounter with dancer and choreographer Josephine Findeisen, including her physical qualities, energy, and voice, which become the delicate traces of a detailed, sensual, and poetic drawing. Her movement research on hands and arms meets Isabelle Schad’s ongoing choreographic practice around the universal power of the hands, the principles of shifting the centre of gravity and aikido. In “Mirroring”, Findeisen lifts, drags, and spins metal plates: heavy materials become her instrument, her clothing, or even an extension of her body. Hybrid relationships connecting weight and sound, labour and sensuality, voice and echo gradually unfold in a reflective space.

The dancer and choreographer Isabelle Schad studied classical dance in Stuttgart and worked with a number of choreographers until starting her own projects in 1999. Her work focuses on the body and its materiality, the relationship between body, choreography and (re)presentation, community building and political involvement. Her projects work at the interface of dance, performance, and visual arts and are presented on international festivals like Internationale Tanzwoche Wien, Tanz im August, International Arts Festival Beijing, Impulstanzfestival, and others. Moreover she had several collaborations with Goethe Institutes and is frequently invited to German Dance Platforms. In 2003 she founded the international artists’ network and project “Good Work” with Bruno Pocheron and Ben Anderson, and she is part of the project “Practicable”, with which she realised the group pieces “Glazba” and “Musik” in 2010 and 2011. Schad is co-director of the working space Wiesenburg-Halle in Berlin and since 2013 is also a Zen Shiatsu Practitioner. In addition, she has worked closely and continuously with Laurent Goldring.
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