CHRONIC ILLNESS, STAND UP COMEDY, WRITING, IMPROVISATION
LAB: 3 & 4 September | 10-16h
PERFORMANCE: 5 September | 19h
Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim works collectively on choreographic works with a queer-feminist and postcolonial focus. Through fiction, they renegotiate power relations and offer empowering alternatives to the present. Their works have been shown at Sophiensæle, Art Sonje Center, Staatsoper Hannover, and Museo Universitario del Chopo, among others. The permanent team consists of Kristin Gerwien, Olivia Hyunsin Kim and Jones Seitz.
WEB: ddanddarakim.net IG: @ohk_ddanddarakim
BABY IT”S COMEDY
LAB: 3 & 4 September | 10-16h
In this workshop we look at comedy as a self-empowering performance tool. People with marginalizing experiences are especially welcome. How can comedy be performed as a tool not to make you smaller, but actually create a space to talk, perform, and dance about matters that are difficult to address in an ableist world, especially in a dance environment, in which you are expected to function all the time? Let’s have a good laugh about it and generate some energy. Through different writing and performing exercises, we will share our comical journey.
BABY I’M SICK TONIGHT
PERFORMANCE: 5 September | 19h
From the perspective of a queer woman of color with chronic illness, Olivia Hyunsin Kim experiments with the format of stand-up comedy. In collaboration with other chronically ill artists, she looks for forms of self-empowering humor. Together with her team, Olivia Hyunsin Kim uses dance and narrative to counter the stigmatization and prejudice faced by artists with invisible disabilities or those who are falsely read as healthy. Using the means of stand-up, pop, and performance in a radically unruly and humorous way, the artists connect the cultural history of hysteria, today’s treatment of sick female queer people, and the body images of the contemporary dance scene, among other things.
German Sign Language (DGS) integrated into the performance.
Performance Audioflyer LINK
Choreography, performance: Olivia Hyunsin Kim
Costume, stage: Kristin Gerwien
Sound environment: Martyna Poznańska
Video, lights: Jones Seitz
Technical direction: Gefährliche Arbeit
Dramaturgy: Marielle Schavan
Access consulting: Hyemi Jolee
Production management: ehrliche arbeit – freelance office for culture
Assistant stage, costumes and production: : Luca Plaumann
Light foam object: Susana Alonso und Jones Seitz
Graphic design: Christian Cattelan
Sound design: Elisabeth Enke
Hysterical choir: Yvonne Sembene, Jill B. Suffner
Interpretation in DGS (German sign language): Hyemi Jolee und Aniella Tiedje
Audio description in tandem: Swantje Henke und Gerald Pirner
Subtitles: Elena Polzer and Luca Plaumann