The haunting beauty of birdsong, the provocative performance of erotic display in primates, the attraction of insects to the perfume of plants are all in excess of mere survival.
Elizabeth Grosz:
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth

Pavane is an exploration of the connections between human and animal art forms. In collaboration with musician Korhan Erel, choreographer and performer Léonard Engel extracts shapes, movements and sounds from animal courtship displays, and puts them in relation with human artistic creations like Renaissance dances or electronic music. The performance is built on the idea of a structured ritual that intensifies sensation and seduces the audience with rhythm and vibration through states of hypnosis and excess.

LÉONARD ENGEL is a performer and choreographer based between Munich and Berlin. As a performer he notably worked with Paula Rosolen, Richard Siegal, Gintersdorfer/Klassen and Billinger & Schulz. In 2018, he received a scholarship from the Munich cultural department to research on animal mimicry and its correlation to human society. Pavane is the first piece developed through that process. He also started a series of miniature pieces with composer and violinist Diego Kohn.

KORHAN EREL is a Berlin-based electronic musician, improviser and sound-designer. He uses electronics as an instrument and a tool for composition, sound-art and sound-design. He does improvised and structured concerts in different groups and orchestras. Together with David Rothenberg, he also creates night live jams in parks with the help of Berlin nightingales.

MAJA ZIMMERMANN is a dance scholar and dramaturge. She collaborated with choreographers and artists like Lea Moro, Ligia Lewis and Planningtorock as well as the festival Tanztage Berlin. She realizes own artistic projects on relationality and touch, most recently she co-curated the exhibition Touch at nGbK, Berlin.

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