LAB: 15 August | 10-16h & ABOUT DANCE FORUM
PERFORMANCE: 16 August | 12h
[OPENING EVENT FOR ABOUT DANCE]
Siegmar Zacharias is performer, death-doula, herbalist and researcher. At the intersection of art, radical pedagogy and activism, she develops performances, immersive installations and curatorial encounter spaces that deal with generative ethical dynamics of transformation: Agency, decolonization of knowledge, ecologies of artistic and social practice. She works with humans and more-than-humans, uncontrollable material such as smoke, slime, saliva, the human nervous system and grief.
Siegmar is a founding-member of the Freelance Dance Ensemble Berlin, an initiative to build solidarity and create visibility of freelancers in the field of dance in Berlin.
LEARNING FROM PLANTS ABOUT REFUSAL, SOLIDARITY AND DIGESTION
LAB: 15 AUGUST | 10-16H & ABOUT DANCE FORUM
Working with plants from the garden of LAKE studios and our collective sensations, concerns and intentions. We will let ourselves be guided and activated by plants in our processes. We will engage in somatic mapping of how plants can be allies and guides in questions around labour, solidarity, and metabolising injustices. We will learn to listen with our bodies to the sounds and movements that seep between the cracks.
I DON”T WANT TO SWALLOW ANYMORE
PERFORMANCE: 16 AUGUST | 12H [OPENING EVENT FOR ABOUT DANCE FORUM]
I don’t want to swallow anymore is an improvisation that engages the materiality of speech, the effort of speaking up and the commitment to stay with processes even when they pose discomfort. This somacoustic drooling lecture addresses labour, solidarity, and indigestion. Things we cannot swallow and stomach anymore.
CREDITS
Concept & Performance: Siegmar Zacharias (Freelance Dance Ensemble Berlin)