If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of the world; if you want to reassure yourself that there is a spring and flowering trees on earth; if you want to get closer to the stars, go to the island of tranquillity.
Santiago Rusiñol ‘Mallorca, the Island of Tranquillity’ 1912

Their research on mass tourism led Christina and Darko to destinations that made history. Equipped with tourist hats and flip-flops, they set off for Prora on the island of Rügen as well as Paris, pushed their way through the overcrowded rooms of Neuschwanstein Castle and sought out the outdoor feeling in Brandenburg’s Tropical Islands.

They learned first-hand how some of these most popular, monumental travel locations work today. For the high season, they went to another monument of travel culture and booked an all-inclusive package for Mallorca: 24-hour breakfast buffet, flaterate booze and partying all night. But what satisfies the tastes of the masses is not without consequences. «Take me somewhere nice. Party without end, without meaning and without purpose» picks up on this tilted situation.

Since 2018, Christina Ciupke and Darko Dragičević have been continuously developing specific collaborative projects such as «Take me somewhere nice», «Silent Trio», «Lie & Theft as Practice» and «Failure as Practice». The artists combine their practices in the fields of choreography, dance, performance, visual arts and film in a complementary way. The spectrums of their individual skills in thinking, contextualization and movement practices merge to create new performative formats.

Christina Ciupke is a choreographer and performer based in Berlin. She develops her projects in cross-media collaborations. Within these projects, specific spaces and situations are created where proximity and distance, intimacy, sense of time and the being together of spectator and performer are constantly being re-negotiated. She has worked intensively with the choreographers Nik Haffner, Mart Kangro, Jasna L. Vinovrški and Ayşe Orhon, the composer Boris Hauf and the dramaturg Igor Dobričić. Since 2020, she has been developing the project «Silent Trio» with visual and performance artist Darko Dragičević.
christinaciupke.com

Darko Dragičević (1979, Belgrade) lives and works as a visual artist, performer and filmmaker in Berlin. In his artistic practice, he explores the interfaces between visual art, choreography, video, film and performance across different media. Since 2003, he has shown his work internationally in various solo and group exhibitions, festivals and curated programs such as the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, The Armory Show New York, the Oberhausen Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Festival Michigan and Tanzfabrik Berlin. Since 2017 he has been working with the Goethe-Institut Belgrade as artistic director on the projects «Failure as Practice»,«Lie & Theft as Practice», «Inequality as Practice». As a lecturer he teaches at the SKH Stockholm University of the Arts, Freie Universität Berlin, Folkwang Universität Essen and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
darkodragicevic.com

[Source: tanzfabrik-berlin.de]

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