IMPROVISATION, CHARACTER WORK, PHYSICAL THEATER, PHRASE WORK
LAB: 7 & 8 September | 10-16h
PERFORMANCE: 11 September | 19h
Sawako Ogo is a dancer and performer of many things, based in Berlin, originally from Tokyo, Japan. Previously based in San Francisco, she has performed in the works of Kristin Damrow, Christian Burns, Erin Yen, Natasha Adorlee, Joe Landini, and Babatunji Johnson, to name a few, through which she discovered and developed her own artistic voice. Since relocating to Berlin, she has worked collaboratively in interdisciplinary projects directed by Post Theater and Holger Seidelin, while producing her original pieces under sawako ogo | disasterchaotic. Her works were supported by and presented at: Finnish Hall (Berkeley), Lenora Lee Dance, Texas Improvisation Dance Festival, Bande à Part (Berlin), tanzwerk*kassel, Tanztendenz München, West Wave Dance Festival und RAW Dance (San Francisco), schwere reiter (München), ACUD Theater (Berlin) and Theatre Pool (Berlin). WEB: sawakoogo.carrd.co || IG: @sawako_horsemackerel
OBSESSION AND PERSPECTIVES
LAB: 7 & 8 September | 10-16h
power/trip is driven by the performer’s obsession with a basketball representing power. Obsession with an object creates a unique perspective for both the performer and the spectator, while generating a dynamic between the performer and the object. How can we free ourselves from such obsession — and when we are indeed free, what does it feel like?
POWER/TRIP
PERFORMANCE: 11 September | 19h, DOUBLE BILL with Katia Pacheco
Power: (1) the ability to control one’s own outcomes and those of others, and (2) the freedom to act. In power/trip, the yellow basketball is a physical representation of power. As a player, the performer embarks on a solitary and deeply personal journey moving through powerlessness, sudden authority, obsessive control, and the physical and emotional constraints that follow. Through releasing obsession, the performer experiences a sense of liberation and inner strength. Yet the power trip is a loop, inevitably pulling them back to the beginning of the cycle.
Choreography, sound design and performance by sawako ogo | disasterchaotic