EMPORE:
UNDO, REDO AND REPEAT


a TANZFONDS ERBE project by Christina Ciupke and Anna Till
Opening: Friday, May 16 / 7 p.m.
Exhibition from May 16 until August 3, 2014

The project “undo, redo and repeat” examines five dance positions from the 20th century as reflected by those by whom they are taught and interpreted, remembered and managed, kept alive and disseminated. The dancers and choreographers Christina Ciupke and Anna Till pursue the question of how knowledge about past dances by Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss, Dore Hoyer, Pina Bausch and William Forsythe reaches us.
Irene Sieben, Reinhild Hoffmann, Martin Nachbar and Thomas McManus are invited to reflect, in their own form, on the history of dance and on their position within the same. As contemporary witnesses and protagonists, they have either dealt with the legacy of each of the above choreographers or – as dancers or assistants – been in direct contact with them. In “undo, redo and repeat” they now become, as nodal points of a transfer of knowledge and experience, protagonists in a process of reconstructing fragments of the dancing legacy.

Christina Cuipke and Anna Till want to find out how accurately they keep alive their knowledge of choreographic methods for themselves and for others, in order to pass it on. This knowledge is personal. It is not catalogued in archives or libraries. It is fragile and based on memories that are subject to constant changes. With every single contemporary witness Christina Ciupke and Anna Till embark on the process of such a passing on of choreographic material.
For the exhibition on the Gallery, interviews, photographs, archive material, performances and first-hand interpretations are brought alive and made accessible. “undo, redo and repeat” is additionally being presented to the general public via a project archive (www.undo-redo-repeat.de) as well as in the form of a performance, which will celebrate its première at the Sophiensaele, Berlin.

A production by Ciupke / Till GbR in co-operation with the Heidelberger Kunstverein and SOPHIENSAELE, Berlin. Promoted by TANZFONDS ERBE - eine Initiative der Kulturstiftung des Bundes and sponsored through subsidies by the Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs.

 

 

The performer and choreographer Christina Ciupke works and lives in Berlin. She develops her projects with artists from the field of dance and other arts. In 2013 she earned a Master of Arts in Choreography (AMCh) at the Amsterdam School of the Arts.

Anna Till lives and works as a choreographer in Dresden and Berlin. She studied Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography at the Inter-University Centre of Dance (HZT), Berlin, and prior to that Applied Cultural Studies at the University of Lüneburg. Her dance pieces have been shown, among other places, in Berlin, Amsterdam Rennes, Leipzig and Dresden.

 

 

 


Christina Ciupke, Reinhild Hoffmann, Anna Till
Foto: Lotte Chabrowski


Irene Sieben zeigt Fotos aus ihrer Zeit in der Wigman Schule, Videostill: Andrea Keiz

 

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