What does craftsmanship look like today? What form does virtuosity in a contemporary artistic process take?
Can technique ever be separate from the context in which it was developed? What artistic and cultural forms do we accept for the re-telling of dominant narratives?

«Orfeo» is Sasha Amaya’s chores-operatic work exploring listening, sounding, proximity, power, and loss. Amaya moves from Monteverdi’s 1607 opera based on the Ancient Greek myth to contemporary interpretations of its central themes. Using the interface between music and movement, gendered motifs from opera and ballet history, and a re-casting of roles, Amaya explores what happens if we turn our attention from Orfeo to Euridice in this fabled tale. Balancing choreographic tools, musical fantasias, and the relationally of bodies, the work juxtaposes tension and flow, restriction and agency, script and sensation.

Sasha Amaya is a dancer, choreographer, and installation artist. Amaya’s works are occupied with form, movement, dance, visual art, collage, text, and architectural surrounds as means to revist the so-called canon of art history. In doing so, Amaya utilizes, rejects, reframes, and repurposes historical narratives and techniques in contemporary art work as part of a broader illumination and reconfiguration of the relationship between politics, aesthetics, and the possible. Shown in both visual art and choreographic contexts, Amaya’s works are known for their combination of play and precision, biting revisions of the art historical, and the body as a radical agent of form.
sasha-amaya.com

Boram Ahn is a collaborative pianist based in Berlin. Born and raised in South Korea, and studying composition, piano performance, and collaborative piano at McGill University in Canada, Boram now moves between performing, her private studio, and her work as a repetiteur at festivals and theatres across Europe.
boramahn.de

An omnivore when it comes to performing, soprano Peyee Chen enjoys singing Monteverdi with lute and bass viol as much as singing Bernhard Lang with electronics and electric bass. She is interest in vocal and contact improvisation, DIY electronic instruments, and installation and performance art. She has appeared as a soloist at the Philharmonie de Paris, Munich Biennale, Cologne Philharmonie, Pierre Boulez Saal, and Konzerthaus Berlin, amongst others.
peyeechen.com

Born in Hamburg, Isabelle Edi is a costume designer, artist, and curator circling around Black (diasporic) existences and their echos though costume, sound, and (moving) images. Her practice can be described as an artistically and scientifically expanded concept of costume and sound, focused around themes of representation, nostalgia, and futurisms. Isabelle has collaborated wtih Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Thalia Theater, Kampnagel, Tanzquartier Wien, BRUT, David Uzochukwu, and the film collective Jünglinge, amongst others. In collaboration with friends, Isabelle founded POSSY in 2017, a collective committed to the visibility of FLINTA* in cultural and club spheres. @isocialbutterflyy

Beijing-born Dandan Liu is a freelance dramaturge, member of the Berlin Ringtheater Kollektiv, and curator at Freie Werkstatt Theater Cologne. Her work is characterised by her transcultural perspectives, analytical and critical thinking and focuses on the areas of performance, political theatre, and dance theatre. She uses biographical, non-fictional, and digital primary source material, which she examines through theoretical discourses in order to discover new possibilities for historiography. @dana_peterpan

Svetlana Mamresheva, is a Soprano, Theatre and cinema actress. She works at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, and in “Kirill and friends” in Berlin, prior to which she worked for ten years with Kirill Serebrennikov at the Gogol Centre Theatre in Moscow. Now in Germany, Svetlana studies under Professor Deborah York at the Universität der Kunste, German Lied with Eric Schneider, and contemporary music with Axel Bauni. Collaborated with the RSB Orchestra, and conductor Vladimir Jurowski.

TingAn Ying 鄞廷安 is a Han-Taiwanese artist and cultural practitioner based in Berlin. Trained in dance, TingAn’s works are grounded in body-, time-, and experience-based materials, spanning performance, dramaturgy, philosophy, politics, communication, and facilitation. TingAn’s work emphasises plurality, socio-political engagement, and is rooted in anti-colonial discourses. TingAn has collaborated primarily as an original cast member with Anouk van Dijk, Emanuel Gat, and Edan Gorlicki, amongst others.
yingtingan.cargo.site

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