a veiled specter folds
shifts form
a conduit for the ineffable
seeking
and
unraveling
being.

vignettes: noun
a brief evocative description, account, or episode
„Vignettes“ is a procession of punctuated images, cropped and pasted. Each image frames a character, whose posture is born of feeling or memory. The face each character wears asks its gesture-body to be heard. This is a solo performance exploring character-based improvisation, gesture, mime, and masked theater. Each of the faces worn during the solo has been hand sculpted by the performer themselves, and serves to enhance their physical form and/or deformity, highlight character beats, and invoke meaning. Guided by this cast of masked characters, the audience may be invited to consider themes of Death, Transmission, Spectacle, Birth, Irony, Ambition, and Survival.

Blank Check is an annual festival series organised by nein9 kollektiv and DOCKART. It presents the diverse approaches of performances by the community of nein9. In this edition, they curate a selection of new and reworked works.
These include works that extend narrative duration, embark on apocalyptic journeys, engage with extremist populist politics in Europe, build bridges, transform gestures of an anonymous body into meaning and offer accessible forms of experience to visually impaired audiences. As part of Blank Check 3, nein9 is delighted to have invited AHA KOLLEKTÍVA from Hungary. They will be showing their award-winning work ‘DENSE PIECE’ and the world premiere of their new piece ‘Sweat Set’.
nein9: Erika Kooki Filia (they/them), Lena Klink (she/her), Omer Keinan (he/him), Raz Mantell (she/her), Ruby Frances Jones (she/they), Susanna Ylikoski (she/her)
Guests: AHA KOLLEKTÍVA Budapest

nein9 is a Berlin-based performance and movement community. After studying at SEAD in Salzburg, they founded a platform for performance, research and practice in Berlin in 2021, where different and contrasting approaches to art making are elaborated, negotiated and celebrated. Since its inception, the collective has realised various projects with the support of DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland. They have participated in several residencies and have collaborated with artists from various disciplines in Berlin and beyond.
Nein9’s programming takes two distinct forms: Blank Check produces performances and workshops hosted and curated by the community. Grassroots supports intra-community exchange of information, knowledge, and inspiration. Guests and new collaborators are regularly invited to participate in these events and processes and share their artistic interests.
nein9kollektiv.de/blankcheck

[Source: dock11-berlin.de]

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