Breathing Rivers: Vagarosas

Performance by Lina Gómez

Performance / Tanz Festival

Four dancers stand close together, the stage is fogged, a light installation shines brightly in the background.

„Vagarosas“ – Lina Gómez © Lina Gómez

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16 Euros, discount 12 Euros

→ „Breathing Rivers“-Festival Ticket: 26 Euros, discount 20 Euros
The festival ticket is valid for all events on the "Breathing Rivers" weekend, the days and times can be freely combined.

Ticket Prices

16 Euros, discount 12 Euros

→ „Breathing Rivers“-Festival Ticket: 26 Euros, discount 20 Euros
The festival ticket is valid for all events on the "Breathing Rivers" weekend, the days and times can be freely combined.

Ticket Prices

16 Euros, discount 12 Euros

→ „Breathing Rivers“-Festival Ticket: 26 Euros, discount 20 Euros
The festival ticket is valid for all events on the "Breathing Rivers" weekend, the days and times can be freely combined.

Ticket Prices

16 Euros, discount 12 Euros

→ „Breathing Rivers“-Festival Ticket: 26 Euros, discount 20 Euros
The festival ticket is valid for all events on the "Breathing Rivers" weekend, the days and times can be freely combined.

We dance like the dew when it evaporates, waltzing its last dance with the grass, with the leaves, with the spider's web, finding its new companion in the wind, in the sky, becoming a cloud, the one that caresses the mountains.

In „Vagarosas“ (Portuguese: fem. „the leisurely ones“), seven performers explore the state of perseverance; the human ability to persist and be determined. The perpetual motion of volcanic mountains erupts here as a metaphor, as an impulse for strength, relentless transformation and resistance. What we experience are vibrating bodies and sounds in coexistence with each other.

 

„Breathing Rivers“-Festival

Located on the Spree River, Radialsystem was originally one of Berlin's first pumping stations, diverting wastewater from the rapidly growing city in the late 19th century. As part of the summer festival “Breathing Rivers,” today's Radialsystem explores our relationship to life and water from 20–23 July 2023 with works by choreographers Amanda Piña, Lina Gómez and Luísa Saraiva. “Breathing Rivers” aims to open spaces of experience in which we collectively remember the continuity of all that is living, which has experienced ruptures through the thought and action of European modernity. Disruptions between human and nature, body and mind, or through cleaving categorizations such as gender and race, behind which exploitation, violence and injustice find their justification. A re-consideration of the inseparable embeddedness of the human being in a larger context begins here with the body as a place of experience and knowledge production. Instead of a notion of a universality of knowledge, Breathing Rivers proposes a multiplicity of possibilities of knowledge production that emerges with and from the reality of differently situated bodies.

Cast

Artistic Direction, Concept and Choreography
Lina Gómez

Dance and Co-Creation
Julek Kreutzer
Kiana Rezvani
Mariana Romagnani
Lena Strützke
Kasia Wolińska

Music and Composition
Michelangelo Contini
Paulina Miu Kühling

Sound Design
Michelangelo Contini

Light Design
Bruno Pocheron

Stage Design
Bruno Pocheron
Michelangelo Contini
Lina Gómez
Henriette Zimmermann

Costume Design
Henriette Zimmermann

Dramaturgy
Thomas Schaupp

Vocal Coaching
Paulina Miu Kühling

Movement Input
Ana Lessing Menjibar

Sound Engineer
Andrea Parolin

Video Documentation
Benjamin Brix

Production
M.i.C.A. – Movement in Contemporary Art

Biographien

Lina Gómez is a Colombian choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Berlin. She received a MA in Choreography at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT) and a BA in “Communication of the Arts of the Body” with an emphasis on Dance and Theatre from the Catholic University of São Paulo. Gómez has worked as a dancer with Yoshiko Chuma, Tino Sehgal, Edson Fernandes and Jorge Garcia, among others. She was awarded in recent years include the Resonancias Residency Programm (Goethe Institut - Institut Français) in Chile, the Villa Kamogawa Residency Programm (GI) in Japan, the Residency Body Time Space at Radialsystem in Germany, the Be Mobile-Create Together! – IKSV in Turkey and the bangaloREsidency (GI) in India, among others.

Julek Kreutzer is a dancer and choreographer living in Berlin. She studied dance, context and choreography at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT Berlin) and is a founding member of the association Tänzer ohne Grenzen e.V. As a dancer she has worked with Lina Gómez, Anna Nowak, Alice Chauchat, Lyllie Rouvière and Bella Hager, among others. Her choreographic work combines movement, language and performance, bringing together performers with and without stage experience. Since 2020 she curates with Diethild Meier and Gabi Beier the student and graduate festival A.PART at ada Studio Berlin.

Kiana Rezvani is a choreographer and dancer, grew up in iran and is based in berlin. kiana’s artistic works search for untold, hidden and suppressed histories, memories and narratives, finding meanings and creating new relations. In choreographic works, kiana focuses on the densities of emotions, sensations and affects and creates enchanted spaces for poetic resilience. kiana is the co-founder of cobracobra collective together with Sharon Mercado Nogales in which they investigate the parallels between the geographies of the "so-called" Iran and Bolivia.

Mariana Romagnani is a choreographer and performer interested in a dance that creates friction and goes beyond its institutionalized limits partnering with other art forms. Throughout her career she has participated in creative processes with choreographers such as Lia Rodrigues (BR), Hooman Sharifi (NO), Luis Garay (AR), Michelle Moura (BR), Eduardo Fukushima (BR) and Thiago Granato (BR). Her latest productions are the piece "Orbit" and the dance film "Satellite of Love" (2022). She has a BA in Philosophy and is currently undertaking a MA in Choreography at HZT Berlin with the support of DAAD.

Lena Strützke is a freelance contemporary dancer living in Berlin wokring since 2017 for Berliner Tanztage, Santiago á mil festival, Dock11, Radialsystem, Residency for Plants Air Programme Novi Sad, Kampnagel Summer Festival, Berlin Opera Academy, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Constanza Macras "Dorkypark" and many more. In addition to her stage work in theater, she works with other artists multidisciplinary with music as well as the medium of film.

Kasia Wolinska is a choreographer, dancer, and writer born in Gdańsk, living in Berlin. Graduate of the Dance Department at Music Academy, Łódź, Cultural Anthropology Department at University of Łódź and Dance, Context, Choreography Program at HZT Berlin. She produced and presented her work in Art Stations Foundation, Radialsystem Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, Judson Church NYC, Het Veem and others. She is a board member of ZTB e.V., the organization representing the interests of the free scene of dance in Berlin and in 2022/23 a fellow of the Critical Practice (Made in YU) programme.

Thomas Schaupp is a dance dramaturg and curator working internationally with choreographers and institutions throughout Europe and beyond. He is a regular advisor in mentoring programs of choreographic institutions and guest lecturer at academies such as the Icelandic University of the Arts in Reykjavík. Most recently, he co-curated Goethe Morph* Iceland, a transcultural center of the Goethe Institute in Iceland, with Arnbjörg María Danielsen.

Michelangelo Contini is a Berlin-based musician, composer and performer.  Originally from Milano, Italy, he studied Music and Arts (D.A.M.S.) in Bologna. In 2002 he moved to Berlin, Germany and he started different collaborations in music and performative projects with Gearóid Ó' Laoghaire, Eurico Ferreira Mathias, Julek Kreutzer, Nancy Banfi, Aaron Snyder, Ira Demina. Since 2015 he collaborates with the choreographer Lina Gómez as musician performer and artistic collaborator.

Paulina Miu Kühling is a vocal artist, composer and voice researcher. She perceives the human voice as a multidimensional tool of expression and empowerment as well as a medium of care and understanding towards oneself and other human and more-than-human beings. In her work she merges contemporary vocal elements with archaic songs and chants from a diverse cultural context with a focus on Slavic musical heritage.

Henriette Zimmermann studied fashion and textile design in Hamburg, Bologna and Arnhem before working as a product developer and production manager for the Berlin avant-garde fashion label Ottolinger. While building her own knitwear design project, she now translates feelings and associations into textiles in dance. She has worked with Julek Kreutzer, Diethild Meier and Lina Gómez.

Bruno Pocheron works internationally as an independent lighting designer, technical director, set and sound designer. He creates performative installations based on his lighting practice, develops software interfaces in PureData and vvvv, allowing for a fluid communication between lights, sound and video and researches the dramaturgical impact of these elements.

Audiodescription & Haptic Access Tour
Fri   21 07 2023   7.30 pm
Please register via telephone at +49 (0)30 288 788 588 or via E-Mail to ticket@radialsystem.de
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In cooperation with Gravity Access Services Berlin, Radialsystem offers audio descriptions and tactile tours for selected programmes: Audio description refers to a live audio track of professional audio descriptors transmitted via headset to audience members with visual impairments. Gravity Access Berlin's audio descriptors are professional dancers or actors and are trained to use clear and engaging language to describe the significant visual details of a performance that would be inaccessible to audience members with visual impairments. Tactile tours are 20-30 minute live tours held prior to the performance that allow visitors with visual impairments to experience the space, performers, costumes and objects, and key elements of movement within a production through touch and their own movement.

The audio descriptions are performed in German.

Credits

A production by Lina Gómez in cooperation with Radialsystem. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, realised by the cooperation partners Fundación Mar Adentro and Bosque Pehuén Residency, a residency at Perform[d]ance / Stralsund and schloss bröllin e.V..

The residency in Bröllin is funded as part of the Schloss Bröllin 2023 Culture Programme. The Schloss Bröllin e.V. residency programme is funded by the Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald.

„Breathing Rivers“ is an event of the Radialsystem, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the Radial Stiftung.

Media partners: taz. die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, Exberliner and Rausgegangen.

We dance like the dew when it evaporates, waltzing its last dance with the grass, with the leaves, with the spider's web, finding its new companion in the wind, in the sky, becoming a cloud, the one that caresses the mountains.

In „Vagarosas“ (Portuguese: fem. „the leisurely ones“), seven performers explore the state of perseverance; the human ability to persist and be determined. The perpetual motion of volcanic mountains erupts here as a metaphor, as an impulse for strength, relentless transformation and resistance. What we experience are vibrating bodies and sounds in coexistence with each other.

 

„Breathing Rivers“-Festival

Located on the Spree River, Radialsystem was originally one of Berlin's first pumping stations, diverting wastewater from the rapidly growing city in the late 19th century. As part of the summer festival “Breathing Rivers,” today's Radialsystem explores our relationship to life and water from 20–23 July 2023 with works by choreographers Amanda Piña, Lina Gómez and Luísa Saraiva. “Breathing Rivers” aims to open spaces of experience in which we collectively remember the continuity of all that is living, which has experienced ruptures through the thought and action of European modernity. Disruptions between human and nature, body and mind, or through cleaving categorizations such as gender and race, behind which exploitation, violence and injustice find their justification. A re-consideration of the inseparable embeddedness of the human being in a larger context begins here with the body as a place of experience and knowledge production. Instead of a notion of a universality of knowledge, Breathing Rivers proposes a multiplicity of possibilities of knowledge production that emerges with and from the reality of differently situated bodies.

Cast

Artistic Direction, Concept and Choreography
Lina Gómez

Dance and Co-Creation
Julek Kreutzer
Kiana Rezvani
Mariana Romagnani
Lena Strützke
Kasia Wolińska

Music and Composition
Michelangelo Contini
Paulina Miu Kühling

Sound Design
Michelangelo Contini

Light Design
Bruno Pocheron

Stage Design
Bruno Pocheron
Michelangelo Contini
Lina Gómez
Henriette Zimmermann

Costume Design
Henriette Zimmermann

Dramaturgy
Thomas Schaupp

Vocal Coaching
Paulina Miu Kühling

Movement Input
Ana Lessing Menjibar

Sound Engineer
Andrea Parolin

Video Documentation
Benjamin Brix

Production
M.i.C.A. – Movement in Contemporary Art

Biographies

Lina Gómez is a Colombian choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Berlin. She received a MA in Choreography at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT) and a BA in “Communication of the Arts of the Body” with an emphasis on Dance and Theatre from the Catholic University of São Paulo. Gómez has worked as a dancer with Yoshiko Chuma, Tino Sehgal, Edson Fernandes and Jorge Garcia, among others. She was awarded in recent years include the Resonancias Residency Programm (Goethe Institut - Institut Français) in Chile, the Villa Kamogawa Residency Programm (GI) in Japan, the Residency Body Time Space at Radialsystem in Germany, the Be Mobile-Create Together! – IKSV in Turkey and the bangaloREsidency (GI) in India, among others.

Julek Kreutzer is a dancer and choreographer living in Berlin. She studied dance, context and choreography at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT Berlin) and is a founding member of the association Tänzer ohne Grenzen e.V. As a dancer she has worked with Lina Gómez, Anna Nowak, Alice Chauchat, Lyllie Rouvière and Bella Hager, among others. Her choreographic work combines movement, language and performance, bringing together performers with and without stage experience. Since 2020 she curates with Diethild Meier and Gabi Beier the student and graduate festival A.PART at ada Studio Berlin.

Kiana Rezvani is a choreographer and dancer, grew up in iran and is based in berlin. kiana’s artistic works search for untold, hidden and suppressed histories, memories and narratives, finding meanings and creating new relations. In choreographic works, kiana focuses on the densities of emotions, sensations and affects and creates enchanted spaces for poetic resilience. kiana is the co-founder of cobracobra collective together with Sharon Mercado Nogales in which they investigate the parallels between the geographies of the "so-called" Iran and Bolivia.

Mariana Romagnani is a choreographer and performer interested in a dance that creates friction and goes beyond its institutionalized limits partnering with other art forms. Throughout her career she has participated in creative processes with choreographers such as Lia Rodrigues (BR), Hooman Sharifi (NO), Luis Garay (AR), Michelle Moura (BR), Eduardo Fukushima (BR) and Thiago Granato (BR). Her latest productions are the piece "Orbit" and the dance film "Satellite of Love" (2022). She has a BA in Philosophy and is currently undertaking a MA in Choreography at HZT Berlin with the support of DAAD.

Lena Strützke is a freelance contemporary dancer living in Berlin wokring since 2017 for Berliner Tanztage, Santiago á mil festival, Dock11, Radialsystem, Residency for Plants Air Programme Novi Sad, Kampnagel Summer Festival, Berlin Opera Academy, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Constanza Macras "Dorkypark" and many more. In addition to her stage work in theater, she works with other artists multidisciplinary with music as well as the medium of film.

Kasia Wolinska is a choreographer, dancer, and writer born in Gdańsk, living in Berlin. Graduate of the Dance Department at Music Academy, Łódź, Cultural Anthropology Department at University of Łódź and Dance, Context, Choreography Program at HZT Berlin. She produced and presented her work in Art Stations Foundation, Radialsystem Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, Judson Church NYC, Het Veem and others. She is a board member of ZTB e.V., the organization representing the interests of the free scene of dance in Berlin and in 2022/23 a fellow of the Critical Practice (Made in YU) programme.

Thomas Schaupp is a dance dramaturg and curator working internationally with choreographers and institutions throughout Europe and beyond. He is a regular advisor in mentoring programs of choreographic institutions and guest lecturer at academies such as the Icelandic University of the Arts in Reykjavík. Most recently, he co-curated Goethe Morph* Iceland, a transcultural center of the Goethe Institute in Iceland, with Arnbjörg María Danielsen.

Michelangelo Contini is a Berlin-based musician, composer and performer.  Originally from Milano, Italy, he studied Music and Arts (D.A.M.S.) in Bologna. In 2002 he moved to Berlin, Germany and he started different collaborations in music and performative projects with Gearóid Ó' Laoghaire, Eurico Ferreira Mathias, Julek Kreutzer, Nancy Banfi, Aaron Snyder, Ira Demina. Since 2015 he collaborates with the choreographer Lina Gómez as musician performer and artistic collaborator.

Paulina Miu Kühling is a vocal artist, composer and voice researcher. She perceives the human voice as a multidimensional tool of expression and empowerment as well as a medium of care and understanding towards oneself and other human and more-than-human beings. In her work she merges contemporary vocal elements with archaic songs and chants from a diverse cultural context with a focus on Slavic musical heritage.

Henriette Zimmermann studied fashion and textile design in Hamburg, Bologna and Arnhem before working as a product developer and production manager for the Berlin avant-garde fashion label Ottolinger. While building her own knitwear design project, she now translates feelings and associations into textiles in dance. She has worked with Julek Kreutzer, Diethild Meier and Lina Gómez.

Bruno Pocheron works internationally as an independent lighting designer, technical director, set and sound designer. He creates performative installations based on his lighting practice, develops software interfaces in PureData and vvvv, allowing for a fluid communication between lights, sound and video and researches the dramaturgical impact of these elements.

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