Production Details / Press Releases
A journey into the realm of interconnectedness: The new performance “The Infinite Gesture” by Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, which premieres at Radialsystem in mid-December, explores the transformative power of touch, connection and empathy. From the sensitive gesture of touch grows a deeply intertwined choreographic landscape in which three performers encounter each other and pose questions about our social co-existence. In “The Infinite Gesture”, they investigate different perspectives on coming-into-connection: From skin-to-skin contact to symbolic, metaphysical and societal dimensions of being together. In this performance, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández makes tangible the potential of touch to shift power hierarchies, dependencies and care and seeks alternative narratives for this network of relationships.
For many years, Berlin-based choreographer and performer Mendoza Hernández has been exploring a phenomenon that she calls “Visual Ghost” – a continuously changing consciousness of perception and inner virtuality. In a world where visible and invisible, subjective and objective realities are closely interwoven, she investigates how the immaterial and the invisible can become “present” through physical experience. Using choreographic tools, she examines how we can reconstruct and reshape perceptual realities.
“The Infinite Gesture” will premiere at Radialsystem as part of the :LOVE: cooperation between Tanzfabrik Berlin and Radialsystem. With the initiative “Radialsystem ♥ Tanzfabrik”, the two institutions are working together to improve the labor and presentation conditions of dance professionals in Berlin.
[Source: radialsystem.de]
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Cast & Credits
Concept, choreography, text and performance: Ixchel Mendoza Hernández
Performance and co-creation: Sebastian Elias Kurth, Emeka Ene
Sound and music: Hyewon Suk
Light: Annegret Schalke
Stage design: Dora Đurkesac
Stage and technical assistance: Louise Wach
Costume: Malena Mondéer
Dramaturgy: Jenny Mahla
Process support for perceptive pedagogy bdm: Joséphine Evrard
Production: M.i.C.A.
Distribution: Tammo Walter
Audio description text and editing: Swantje Henke, Gerald Pirner
A production by Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, in co-production with Radialsystem and Tanzfabrik Berlin.
With the kind support of Something Great – Zentrum für Internationale Zeitgenössische Darstellende Künste, Ruhner Berge and Werkstatt für Darstellende Künste e.V..
Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Radialsystem
Video Documentation
The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):
University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)
Ixchel Mendoza Hernández / Trailers and Video Documentations
- Ixchel Mendoza Hernández: Interview / Portrait Ixchel Mendoza Hernández (2019)
- Ixchel Mendoza Hernández: The Multiplicity of the Other (2023)
- Ixchel Mendoza Hernández: The Reversed Alchemist: Figure 4 – 6 (2021)
- Ixchel Mendoza Hernández: The Reversed Alchemist: Figure 1-3 (2019)
- Instant Feedback / Ixchel Mendoza Hernández: The Reversed Alchemist: Figure 1-3 (2019)
- Ixchel Mendoza Hernández: The Twofold Paradox (2018)
- Ixchel Mendoza Hernández: Visual Ghost (2012)