Physis
MOVEMENT SPACE

How can we meet each other so that everyone can authentically be themselves? “Physis” by Moritz Majce and the dancers Johanna Ackva, Ágnes Grélinger, Zuki Ringart, Yuri Shimaoka, and Cary Shiu aims to celebrate being together in space and time – without ignoring the differences, the risk, the improbability, and the fragility of this togetherness.

The performers dance the connections between the bodies and connect the bodies with their movements. “Physis” is a search for bodily space, a shared landscape created by bodies together where references arise and pass between all those present. By means of a specially developed relational movement practice, Relational Flow, which includes the physical presence of the visitors, a spatial continuum is created between the movers and the visitors.

With “Physis”, the performers do not present a self-contained piece to an audience but share an embodied experience of interconnectedness. “Physis” asks how the role of the spectator could and should be changed. How can we allow each other space, be in contact and be our real selves, how to be true companions?

Moritz Majce (he/him) is a Berlin-based movement artist who works on shared space choreographies: moving installations and walk-in performances. His artistic practice explores what takes place between bodies in the presence of each other. Since 2019 he has been working on Relational Flow, a collective movement practice for dancers that incorporates the bodies and senses of the audience.
www.moritzmajce.com

Johanna Ackva‘s choreographic and artistic interest lies in the moment of encounter with oneself, with others and with all those who collectively make the world. Exploring the material, affective, symbolic, and political dimensions of human interrelations, she links processes of research and experimentation with those of public sharing. In addition to various body- and movement-based practices, conversations – with experts, strangers, and friends – make up an essential part of her work. www.johannaackva.com/

Ágnes Grélinger is a Hungarian dancer, choreographer, teacher. Graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts, she is working now internationally in Hungary, Denmark and Germany, produces her own site-specific work on the relation between the human and non-human and collaborates with other artists. She has worked with Moritz Majce, Frédéric Gies, Eleanor Bauer, Sara Shelton Mann, Andreas Liebmann amongst others.

Zuki Ringart is a medium-fluid artist coming from dance and performance, raised in Israel, based in Berlin, works in between. Zuki graduated from MASPA and VIDP dance training programs (Israel), and from the B.A. program at HZT (Berlin). Since 2015 Zuki has created works and collaborated with several artists and choreographers as a dancer, performer and dramaturg.

Cary Shiu is a dancer born in Hong Kong, living in Berlin. He graduated from the MA SODA course (Solo/Dance/Authorship) at HZT/UDK in Berlin, and received dance training in La Manufacture, Switzerland. He is currently engaged in projects directed by Zufit Simon, Lee Meir and Moritz Majce. Since 2019, he has collaborated with the improvisation ensemble Instant PIG//Stuttgart. His current interest is the senses of care, which he explores and reflects upon through his work as a dancer.

Yuri Shimaoka is a dancer from Nagano, Japan. Since 2015 she is based in Berlin and has been collaborating with various artists in screen, VR, installation and dance. She has worked with Yoko Ando and YCAM InterLab, Matteo Marziano Graziano, Ersan Mondtag, IASA and among others. As a guest teacher, she has been giving ballet classes with a somatic approach in open dance studios and schools.

[Source: tanzfabrik-berlin.de]

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