Art or artifice? Beauty or optical illusion? In dialogue with the electronic live-sound of musician Korhan Erel, Léonard Engel transposes ani-mal behaviors like mimicry or highly codified mating rituals to the human anatomy. By doing so, he exposes their abstract qualities and sets them in relation with the Pavane (from the Spanish pavón, peacock), a processional dance from the Renaissance in which the participants display their lustrous attire. His performance opens new perspectives on the artistic value of animal dances, while creating a new masculinity that tries to seduce through dance, glitter and hypnotic movement, far from a normative display of strength.

Léonard Engel is an ex-soloist of the Bavarian State Ballet (Munich) and has been working as a freelance artist since 2016 with choreographers and companies such as Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, Richard Siegal, Paula Rosolen and Laurent Chétouane. In January 2019, Engel presented “Pavane”, his first choreographic work, at the Tanztage Berlin in the Sophiensælen. In September 2019, he created “How to get rid of a body. A magic manual” at HochX Theatre (Munich). In 2021 he will realise a short film project around this last piece, as well as a new project inspired by different revolving dances.
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Korhan Erel (*1973 Istanbul) is a non-binary electronic musician, improviser and sound artist based in Berlin. He plays improvised and composed music as a soloist and in various groups and orchestras, and composes music and sound for dance, video art and film. As a sound artist, Sier has been present at exhibitions in Turkey, Hong Kong and Germany, as well as giving concerts in the context of art exhibitions. To date, Sier has released ten albums with various musicians and groups and has played numerous concerts in Europe, Asia and North America.
korhanerel.com

The soundance festival berlin presents joint projects by dancers, choreographers, musicians and composers from the Berlin independent scene and invites international guest artists. As a stimulus for dialogue between the various disciplines, the festival presents a broad spectrum of artistic styles, from contemporary dance to real-time music, from Post Butoh to New Jazz and improvisation – analog and electronic. Across generations, diverse works and formats between sound and movement will be experienced by audiences in theater and urban space.
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