{"id":128476,"date":"2024-04-25T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/termin\/other-en\/handarbeit-128476\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T15:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T13:29:19","slug":"handwork","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/performance-en\/handwork-128476\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwork"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What can our hands tell us about our life, our work, our actions? What have they helped me with? What did they carry? Who have they held? Can we create a shared landscape of hands?<\/p>\n

Hands that push, hands that pull. Hands that grasp. Hands that fold. Hands that hold each other. Our life story shapes our bodies. Personal and collective experiences are inscribed in our posture and movements. Can these experiences also be expressed through dance?<\/p>\n

The choreographer Isabelle Schad and the dancers\/choreographers Josephine Findeisen, Claudia Tomasi and the sculptor Nora Mertes, together with women from Bitterfeld-Wolfen, explore the tense relationship between self and world in dance: the central question here is the concept of subjectivity within a collective moving body that can only function as a whole: How can we perceive ourselves as part of a larger whole and what does this mean as a choreographic and visual practice as well as an attitude that one adopts?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Based on movement principles such as weight shifting, stretching and breathing techniques, professional and amateur dancers initially develop small sketches that focus on their own perception of the hands and, in resonance with their own story, tell something about society, being human and ageing. The video camera does not record images, but rather movement in the personal context of the dancers and during the joint rehearsals. It takes part as if it were an acting hand itself.<\/p>\n

Gradually, a choreography and videography unfolds in the field of tension between inside and outside, intimacy and community, hand and labour, grasping and letting go, miniature and overall sequence. The resulting sculptures and landscapes are made from interwoven hands and images in order to face the events of our time in forms of connectedness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tread more<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tread less<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/read-mode>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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