Lake Studios Berlin

Public spaces have been where we interact with those outside our private circles, to which we have access without permission and in which we are able to decide individually how to conduct ourselves, but the idea of an absolute public space is rare, since all spaces are restricted either physically, legally or socially on their access and use. The performance invites us to step in the shoes of different characters who wander around in Berlin, creating a play of short snippets from entire lifetimes, where fiction blends with reality. It guides us to settle down and observe the outdoors through a window, focusing more closely on the dance of every individual in their uniqueness, that is given a new tone with a soundscape by Hayden Dean. The separation of indoors and outdoors allows us to focus on what mundane movements and gestures tell us in terms of social norms, individual expression and identity? How do they serve as tools to express emotions, relationships and power dynamics in the body’s movements?
Concept and direction: Biret Haarla Pieski Sound design and composing: Hayden DeanPerformers: Therese Bendjus, Ching Shu Huang, Marta Marja Ruszkowska