Performance - GIRISH KUMAR RACHAPPA

Some Thing Folk

A future written in the past
A story hard to tell,
something folk for now
In a distant past, in a blue landscape, a story is being written. An imagination of a folk and people who are eager to belong.
Suppose the “human” body, beyond its fleshly matter, comprises stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. How might these porous and animate creature-like things (bodies) host an-other story inspired by their collective pasts but uprooted and set in motion by a series of imaginative departures? A crucial story which teaches us to see each other more honestly.
Inspired by for example black feminist theorist Zakkiyyah Iman Jackson and cultural anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, choreographer Ligia Lewis will explore complex modes of embodiment in ways that confront a racial history tethered to the skin, while simultaneously disrupting any linear or reductive explanation of this experience.

Concept, Choreography and Artistic Direction: Ligia Lewis
Light Design: Joseph Wegmann
Costume: Sadak
Sound Design: George Lewis Jr aka Twin Shadow
Musical Composition: Anton Kats
Scenography: Ligia Lewis, Pia Gyll
Choreographic Assistant: Corey Scott Gilbert
Created in collaboration with the dancers: Anand Bolder, Andrea Muelas Blanco, Arika Yamada, Camille Prieux, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Harrison Elliott, Ida ”Inxi” Holmlund, Johanna Tengan, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein, Lilian Steiner, Mohamed “Shika” Saleh, Noam Segal, Panos Paraschou, Thamiris Carvalho, Vincent Van der Plas and the apprentices Ida Hebsgaard Mogensen och Ida Osten
Coproduction: Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, PACT Zollverein
In collaboration with: Kulturhuset Stadsteatern (The Stockholm City Theatre)

Guerrilla

Infused with a vibrant pulse that echoes through the space, creating an immersive experience where every heartbeat and movement is interconnected. Because there’s nothing stronger than the binding of life and how heat and blood keep the pace of our collective desire for freedom, touch, and attentive justice. The blurred line that links individual and collective. This rhythmic energy transforms the dance floor into a democratic space, where the roles of performer and spectator blur, fostering a sense of unity and shared experience. The audience is not merely a passive observer but an integral part of the performance, contributing to a collective energy that fuels the dance. This dance piece is not just a performance but a living, breathing entity that evolves with the input and presence of each participant. Here, the dance floor becomes a microcosm of society, where diverse voices and movements converge to create a unified and dynamic whole. This work speaks to the power of collective action and artistic expression as tools for social engagement and transformation, which are familiar topics for Renan Martins.

Choreography: Renan Martins
Music: Olof Dreijer
Costume: Suelem de Oliveira da Silva
Light Design: Christoffer Lloyd
Dramaturgy: Ana Rocha
Live DJ: Maele ”CHEZA” Sabuni
Created in collaboration with the dancers: Anand Bolder, Thamiris Carvalho, Harrison Elliott, Shai Faran, Anna Fitoussi, Ida Inxi Holmlund, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Andrea Muelas Blanco, Camille Prieux, Noam Segal, Lilian Steiner, Vincent Van der Plas, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein, Mohamed “Shika” Saleh and the apprentices Ida Hebsgaard Mogensen, Ida Osten
Apprentices from P.A.R.T.S.: Letícia Ferreira, Patric da Cunha
Photo performance photos: Carl Thorborg
In collaboration with: Kulturhuset Stadsteatern (The Stockholm City Theatre)

Noche

The meeting between dance and music, voice and rhythm, is central in Alma Söderberg’s new work Noche, in which exploration takes a new form. At the same time slow and sudden, constantly recurring but nevertheless unpredictable, the night is a soft break with its own rhythm. The moonlight is at once sharp and confusing, the ground under one’s feet different. Nothing can be taken for granted, attention is increased.

The night is the starting point for a different kind of music and dance, more uneven in its rhythm, more risky, at the same time soft, warm and dark. With its pastel colored and blurred edges, The Listeners is an evening work. Where it ends, Noche starts. From a soft web of several voices and movements, towards the cut, the interruption, the syncope.

Choreography : Alma Söderberg
Music: Dehendrik Lechat Willekens
Costume: Behnaz Aram
Lighting design: Pol Matthé
Dramaturge: Igor Dobričić
Artistic advise: Anja Röttgerkamp
Dance and vocals are created in collaboration with dancers: Adam Schütt, Anna Fitoussi, Benjamin Pohlig, Camille Prieux, Cecilia Wretemark-Hauck, Eliott Marmouset, Freddy Houndekindo, Johanna Tengan, Katie Jacobson, Louise Dahl, Mohamed Y. Shika, Víctor Pérez Armero, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Thamiris Carvalho, Lilian Steiner, Shai Faran, Noam Segal, Harrison Elliott

While in battle I’m free, never free to rest

Cullberg’s dancers meet dancers from the street dance world. They see, give, take and are influenced by each other. The music of Neda Sanai is based on deconstructed Iranian folk music.
At the center is the battle and out of it the dancers rise, as individuals and together. They are rooted in struggle, resistance, coexistence. In the desire and necessity to stand for something that can be taken away from you, and the opportunity to use your language to see and be seen.

Texts by BAM: Burcu Sahin, Athena Farrokhzad and Merima Dizdarevic.
Choreographer: Hooman Sharifi
Sound: Neda Sanai
Lighting design: David Prokopič and Hooman Sharifi
Costume: Marita Tjärnström and Hooman Sharifi
Rehearsal director: Agnieszka Dlugoszewska
Poets: BAM – Burcu Sahin, Athena Farrokhzad, Merima Dizdarević
Project advisor: Niki Tsappos
Production: Cullberg
Dancers: Anton Borgsröm, Thamiris Carvalho, Harrison Elliott, Anna Fitoussi, Chiara Gilioli, Ida Holmlund, Afra Hosseini Kaladjahi, Girish Kamar Rachappa, Gloria Kapako, Ama Kyei, Rebecca Livaniou, Andrea Muelas Blanco, Anastasija Olescuka, Camille Prieux, Noam Segal, Lilian Steiner, Vincent Van der Plas, Omar Velasquez Rojas, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein

Last Spring | Last Spring | אביב אחרון (UA)

In Last Spring | Last Spring | אביב אחרון, the two Israeli choreographers Yossi Berg and Oded Graf delve into the soul of the work and reveal its vulnerability. An adventure begins. This evening, Stravinsky’s Sacre will be performed twice, once with a cast of four female dancers and once with four male dancers. “Passion and desire, Eros and Thanatos, the dynamics of masculinity and femininity meet – in one body.” Yossi Berg and Oded Graf

Yossi Berg and Oded Graf raise questions about how gender and human existence are positioned and changed through movement, formal language, dynamics and aestheticization. The work Le Sacre du Printemps was created as a monumental icon on the eve of the First World War – now the two choreographers are once again examining the questions of ethos, sacrifice and nation in the context of female and male energy. An end-time spectacle full of contradictory images of collective memory, ranging from fanatical passion and stormy sexuality to compassion and poetic tenderness

Team
Dance premiere by Yossi Berg and Oded Graf (Israel) on June on 29th 2024
Choreography and direction: Yossi Berg, Oded Graf
Performance: Tanz_Kassel
Stage and costumes: Sibylle Pfeiffer
Dramaturgy: Lars Gunnar Anderstam, Thorsten Teubl
Venue: TiF – Theater im Fridericianum

Winterwende | Winter Solstice (UA)

The Baroque era is a shattered world, as the Thirty Years’ War left a ghostly emptiness in Europe, according to Egon Friedell, “broken people, robbed land, dead homes and a deified world”. Idiosyncratic art-historical and world-political phenomena, great world theater in which the boundaries between truth and deception are blurred, territorial disputes and the omnipresent fear of the plague as the “Black Death” characterize an era that is not far removed from our present. Today, Europe is faced with the challenges of upcoming transformation processes, with migration flows, with coping with the consequences of a virus that has become powerful and with another war on European soil. How about simply setting our society back to ZERO – AND NOW START EVERYTHING AGAIN FROM THE BEGINNING?

The winter solstice refers to the shortest day of the year, the longest night, but also to renewal. Looking back leads to the future and also calls for celebrating life.

“I am choreographing a journey into a world of light and shadow, where beauty shines through ugliness. The light of enlightenment that shines down into the deepest depths of human existence – an eternal battle between light and dark: chiaroscuro.” Kristel van Issum

Starting from the basic conditions of human existence, the human condition, Kristel van Issum deals with the human, with the all-too-human, in Winterwende, capturing snapshots and the fleeting, fragile moment. Like the famous early Baroque painter Caravaggio, she delves into a torn world of cynicism, brutality and absolute beauty.

Baroque visions for the end of time Dance premieres by Kristel van Issum (Netherlands) with live music by Vilsmayr, Biber and Couperin

Choreography and staging: Kristel van Issum

Dance and Co-Creation: Kiley Dolaway, Klil Ela Rotshtain, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Anna Gorokhova, Tse-Wei Wu, Sophie Borney, Einav Berkovich, Emy Mårtensson Liljegren, Minjung Kang, Shafiki Sseggayi, Selene Martello, René Fiorella, Jesper Sandvik, James Potter, Myles Hunter

Stage and costumes: Gabriela Neubauer

Light: Oskar Bosman

Dramaturgy: Thorsten Teubl, Lars Gunnar Anderstam

Choreographic assistance & mediation: Beatrice Ieni, Keiko Okawa

Soprano: Ralitsa Ralinova

Harpsichord: Giulia Glennon, Viktor Jugovic

Baroque violin: Martin Jopp

Gambe: Laura Frey

Die Hamletmaschine

Choreographer Valentin Alfery from the Hungry Sharks and director Florentine Klepper join forces to unhinge The Hamlet Machine, a merciless triptych of a hero’s fate by William Shakespeare, Heiner Müller and Wolfgang Rihm, and to question our viewing and listening habits.
The Hamlet machine as a form of total theater that overcomes the questions of being or not being, topples icons and role models from their pedestals and brings the apocalypse into the present. TANZ_KASSEL, the drama and music theater ensemble, under the musical direction of General Music Director Francesco Angelico, invite you on a revealing hellish trip through European history: “Down with the happiness of submission! Long live hatred, contempt, rebellion, death!” Heiner Müller puts into the mouth of his anti-heroine Ophelia. The rest is silence.

The Hamlet Machine is a cross-disciplinary production by Musical theater, drama, TANZ_KASSEL, the Kassel State Orchestra and the opera choir

Dance and Co-creation: Kiley Dolaway, Klil Ela Rotshtain, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Anna Gorokhova, Yannis Brissot, Safet Mistele, Tse-Wei Wu, Sophie Borney, Einav Berkovich, Emy Mårtensson Liljegren, Minjung Kang, Shafiki Sseggayi, Kesi Rose Olley Dorey, Selene Martello, Mila Levy, René Fiorella, Jesper Sandvik, Hamilton Blomquist
Dance director : Thorsten Teubl
Rehearsal and training management : Wencke Kriemer de Matos, Keiko Okawa

Opera house
Musical direction: Francesco Angelico
Musical assistance and post-conductor: Armando Merino
Direction & choreography: Florentine Klepper, Valentin Alfery
Stage: Sarah-Katharina Karl
Costumes: Miriam Grimm
Video: Robert Läßig
Dramaturgy: Silke Meier-Brösicke, Elias Lepper, Felix Linsmeier
Choir direction: Marco Zeiser Celesti
Light: Jürgen Kolb
Choreography assistant : Vanessa Morandell

Artistic production manager : Ann-Kathrin Franke
Rehearsal and post-conductor : Armando Merino
Study director : Peter Schedding
Stage manager : Jürgen Fattinger
Production and sound supervision : Felix Barsky, Anne-Louise Bourion
Assistant director and evening director : Vivien Hohnholz
Director internship : Yvonne Sembene
Set design assistant : Kuan-Jung Lai
Costume assistant : Nadia Dapp, Vincent Großer, Lara Belén Jackel, Mason Schier
Hospitality Equipment Inspector : Heiko Schmelz
Prompt : Ingrid Fröseth
Supertitle director :Katharina Werner
BfD TANZ_Kassel : Charlotte Kalinka
BfD Music Theater :Felix Umbach
Musical theater mediation : Hannah Rech

Der Nussknacker|The Nutcracker|De Notenkraker (UA)

The Nutcracker is not an unproblematic piece – nowadays it stands almost iconographically for colonialist habits and perspectives, racism and cultural appropriation in the sense of a misunderstood exoticism. Whatever happened to the piece? Was this not known before? Have cultural-historical connections been examined differently? TANZ_KASSEL questions this and brings the piece into the 21st century. The United Cowboys represent a contemporary but also up-to-date implementation with an interdisciplinary approach that defeats clichés and prejudices, moves between reality and fantasy and creates an exciting world between revealingly (un)beautiful family celebrations, reconciliation with the past and the sacrifice of ideals conjured up.

A meta-cultural_performative_immersive_metaphoric dance premiere by the United Cowboys (Netherlands)
Choreography and staging: United Cowboys: Pauline Roelants, Maarten van der Put

Dance and Creation: Kiley Dolaway, Klil Ela Rotshtain, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Anna Gorokhova, Yannis Brissot, Safet Mistele, Tse-Wei Wu, Sophie Borney, Einav Berkovich, Emy Mårtensson Liljegren, Minjung Kang, Shafiki Sseggayi, Kesi Rose Olley Dorey, Selene Martello, Mila Levy, René Fiorella, Jesper Sandvik, Hamilton Blomquist, James Potter, Gauthier Hemmerlin
Actress : Katharina Brehl

Rehearsal and training management: Wencke Kriemer de Matos
Stage: Sebastian Hannak
Costumes: Catherine Fitz
Video creation: Maarten van der Put

Video editing and mapping: Oscar van der Put
Composition and sound design: Pauline Roelants
Musical assistance: Donato Deliano
Light: Jürgen Kolb
Dramaturgy: Silke Meier-Brösicke

Cooperation with the Theater and SOZO Visions in motion

धर्म | DHARMA

Which rules determine our coexistence? Are there universal values by which people can be people? Can the Hindu ordering principle Dharma, as an ethic of living together, show us the way out of the battlefields of our time, out of an unprecedented division in our (western) society and world? In his creation for TANZ_KASSEL, Ashley Lobo explores these questions in his very own powerful and spiritual language of movement, including a touch of Bollywood. With DHARMA he completes the Yama and Buddha triptych initiated by dance director Thorsten Teubl at the Landestheater Linz.

Choreography and Direction: Ashley Lobo
Dancers and co-creators: Sophie Borney, Kiley Dolaway, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Tillmann Becker, Apollonas Anastasiades, Kaine Ward, Almog Adler, Klil Ela Rotshtain, Imogen Burrell, Anna Zesakes
Stage: Markus Meyer
Costumes: Irina Bartels
Sound design: Donato Deliano
Lighting design: Oskar Bosman
Dramaturgy: Silke Meier-Brösicke, Thorsten Teubl

Urlicht | Primal Light | πρωταρχικό φως (UA)

Andonis Foniadakis asks in Urlicht | Primal Light | πρωταρχικό φως about the transcendence of the soul, about the origin and end of human existence. Together with his long-standing musical partner, the French composer and sound designer Julien Tarride, who is at home in classical and contemporary music as well as in the French Musique Concrète and the American Minimal Music, Andonis Foniadakis illuminates the entire spectrum of human emotions – similar to a prism that breaks down white light into its unlimited spectral Dance as a border crossing, dance as an expedition into the unknown, where nothing is impossible and anything can happen.

Choreography and staging:Andonis Foniadakis
Stage and light design:Sakis Birbilis
Costumes:Anastasios Tassos Sofroniou
Sound design:Julien Tarride
Light:Marie-Luise Fieker
Dramaturgy:Silke Meier-Brösicke
Choreographic assistance: Pierre Magendie
Dance and Co-creation: Anna Gorokhova,Kiley Dolaway, Selene Martello, Sophie Ormiston, Sophie Borney, Yannis Brissot, Hyeonwoo Bae, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Klil Ela Rotshtain, Kaine Ward,Safet Mistele, Shafiki Sseggayi
Internships: Almog Adler, Imogen Burrell, Apollonas Anastasiades, William Lundberg, Adriana Štefaňáková, Joel Leupi, Leo Terris , Pei-Chen Tsai, Lieke van der Linden.

JANUS

An unmistakable, organic and at the same time expressive dance language characterises the choreographic works of Noa Wertheim, one of Israel’s most important dance makers and artistic director of the well-known and award-winning Vertigo Dance Company. Now, for the first time ever, Noa Wertheim is working on a creation with a company other than her own: world premiere! Dance from Israel at its best! Her world premiere for TANZ_KASSEL is a choreographic stocktaking of today’s man in a globalised, totally networked and mobile, Janus-faced world shaken by crises and wars. What do our longings and fears look like? What offers us meaning and orientation in the acceleration? Where do we find our meaning in total insecurity?

Performed repertoire “Janus” by Noa Wertheim in Staatstheater Kassel in the season 2022-23.
Choreography and production: Noa Wertheim
Stage:Sibylle Pfeiffer
Costumes: Ariella Karatolou
Sound design:Randomhype
Light :Marie-Luise Fieker
Dramaturgy :Silke Meier-Brösicke
Rehearsal and training management: Wencke Kriemer de Matos,Kasia Kizior
Dance : Anna Gorokhova,Kiley Dolaway, Selene Martello, Sophie Ormiston, Sophie Borney, Yannis Brissot, Hyeonwoo Bae, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Klil Ela Rotshtain, Kaine Ward,Safet Mistele, Shafiki Sseggayi
Internships: Almog Adler, Imogen Burrell, Apollonas Anastasiades, William Lundberg, Adriana Štefaňáková, Joel Leupi, Leo Terris , Pei-Chen Tsai, Lieke van der Linden.

Sleeping Beauty | Dawn and Day

Sleeping Beauty? The fable of the world-famous fairy tale is well known: a beautiful princess, an evil fairy, a sting on the spindle, a hundred-year sleep, a kiss from the prince, a happy ending. But if you continue reading the fairy tale La Belle Au Bois Dormant by the French writer Charles Perrault, which Peter I. Tchaikovsky used in his ballet composition, you will come across family crisis, brutal intrigues and cannibalistic intentions of Sleeping Beauty’s mother-in-law, who herself does not shy away from a murder of her two

Schauspielhaus
Choreografie und Inszenierung:  Sita Ostheimer
Bühne:  Sibylle Pfeiffer
Kostüme:  Irina Bartels
Lightdesign:  Barnaby Booth
Sounddesign:  Adrien Casalis
Dramaturgie:  Silke Meier-Brösicke ,  Thorsten Teubl
Proben- und Trainingsleitung:  Wencke Kriemer de Matos ,  Tillmann Becker
Photo: Sylwester Pawliczek
Dance and co creation: Kiley Dolaway, Selene Martello, Sophie Ormiston, Hyeonwoo Bae, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Safet Mistele, Shafiki Sseggayi
Internships: Almog Adler, Imogen Burrell, Apollo Anastasiades, William Lundberg

COSMICBODIES

In #COSMICBODIES, seven dancing bodies draw on the #horror and science fiction genres, scientific discourses, pop culture and subculture to gain an intimate physical language. The images of the piece thus move across the spacetime of the sounding inner world of their own bodies to the resounding outer space. Outer space and inner space tilts and inverts into relation, where the memory of our mother’s advice is found in photons travelling towards black holes.

COSMICBODIES is a dance piece for people with and without visual impairments and integrates artistic audio description. After »Blue Moon« and »Witches«, it is Ursina Tossi’s third work from »EXCESSIVE SHOWING you can only dismantle the master’s house with the monster’s tools!«, a choreographic series of critical queer-feminist perspectives on the constructions of femininity and monstrous bodies in the context of mythology, history(-ies) and pop culture.

Premiered at Ballhaus Ost in Berlin and performed at Kampnagel in Hamburg and Tanzfaktor, Köln, Germany 2022

Artistic direction & choreography: Ursina Tossi

Dance: Anand Dhanakoti, Camilla Brogaard, Damini Gairola, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Huen tin yeung, Lisa Rykena, Ursina Tossi

Dramaturgy: Zwoisy Mears-Clarke

Sound: Johannes Miethke

Stage: Raphaela Andrade

Costume design: Nina Divitschek

Assistance: Nona Siepmann

Production and Press: STÜCKLIESEL

Photography: Alexandra Polina

Diffusion: LEAD Productions (Uta Engel & Lea Connert)

FUX

With FUX, the Hamburg choreographer Ursina Tossi is developing a dance piece for young and older audiences that makes accessibility for people with (visual) disabilities an artistic tool in their own choreographic practice for the first time. FUX is inspired by George Saunder’s book »Fox 8«, which tells the survival story of a fox that tries to cope with human normality of destruction. FUX is an obituary for all the living beings that we have already lost and that we will lose. It can be mourned. There will be laughter.

How do we want to live together? asks Fux.
Ursina Tossi understands the methods of breaking down barriers as artistic means and thus starts at the core of a reorientation in the inclusive dance and theater area. The artist combines her political and artistic aspirations to break with traditional viewing habits and replace them with new, fresh arrangements and aesthetics.

Fux was premiered in December 2021 at Kampnagel, Hamburg as part of NORDWIND Festival and later at TanzFaktur, cologne.

Artistic direction & choreography: Ursina Tossi
Dramaturgy: Uta Engel
Dance: Amanda Romero Canepa, Sophia Neises, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Cliff Huen Yeung, Damini Gairola
Audio description: Carolin Jüngst
Stage: Lea Kissing
Costume: Nina Divitschek
Costume co-production: Ronja Lahr
Sound: Johannes Miethke
Video: Friederike Höppner
Lighting design: Ricarda Schnoor
Assistance & social media: Sina Rundel
Production & communication: Stückliesel
Access & workshops: Dorothee de Place

Radical Dance Series

RADICAL DANCE SERIES are interactive choreographies in Hamburg’s urban space. Dancing bodies invite passers-by to explore the subversive potential of movement together, which is hidden inside the city. On three different routes they conquer the urban space on their way through the former working-class district of Barmbek to downtown Hamburg.

Radical Dance Series was premiered in October 2021 at Hamburg City, Germany

Idea, Concept, Artistic Direction & Choreography : Fernanda Ortiz
Co-Choreography & Dance: Deborah Dalla Valle, Frank Koenen, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Trinidad Martinez, Anibal Dos Santos
Research : Angela Kecinski, Caglar Yigitogullari
Motion Capture: Angela Kecinski
Dramaturgy: Lucia Rainer
Graphic Design : Erik Tuckow
Ux Design & Web Development By Mpct.Media : Daniel Nürrenbach & Thilo Hemmie
Sound Design : Diego Velasquez Fuica
Video Directing, Documentation & Motioncapture : Sven Grell
Camera And Sound Recording : Marcel Edlinger
Production Management & Press : Piece Liesel
Production Assistance & Cooperations : Teresa Rosenkrantz
Animation Assistance : Codefunart ()

WEBSITE : https://radicaldanceseries.de/

Moving Imaginative Bodies

Moving Imaginative Bodies is an interactive Open Dance Rehearsals happened in August, September, October ,November with Yolanda Morales (Choreographer) & Team

During rehearsals, participants learned excerpts from “HORSES” and rethink the power symbolism of the horse in both static and living moving form. The series Moving Imaginative Bodies thus becomes part of the creative process and gives the opportunity to get to know the thematic focuses and working methods of the choreographer. A new perspective on the dance piece emerges.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/579482445

Concept & Choreograph : Yolanda Morales

Teaching Staff: Girish Kumar Rachappa, Emilie Lund, Alicia Tuskolitas, Sujin, Damini Gairola

Music: Thordis M Meyer

Organization & Communication: Ann-Leonie Niss

Social media: Stückliesel

Video: Diana Sanchez

"CLOSE"-Video Installation

The video installation “Close” varies the permeability via structures made of fabric panels and moving images.
“Close” articulates physical touch and closeness at the same time and reveals their indeterminacy.
Installation by Bianca Müllner.
Performed by two dancers Girish Kumar Rachappa and Julien Müller from “The Current Dance Collective”
Artoffhamburg MITTE WALK (Saturday August 14th, 2021)

META//MORPH

Girish Kumar Rachappa performed in “THE END IS IMPORTANT IN ALL THINGS” in the evening “meta // morph” premiered in July 2021 at Hamburger Sprachwerk, Hamburg, Germany.
meta // morph celebrated the 5th anniversary of the interdisciplinary artist collective THE CURRENT DANCE COLLECTIVE. On three consecutive evenings, five choreographies was presented in different combinations. Every evening, every piece deals with the topics of growth, change and transformation in a different way.
Artistic direction & choreography: Suse Tietjen
Dance & Choreography: Henriette Charlotte Bethge, Anand Dhanakoti, Nadine Haas, Ronja Kasemi, Julien Müller, Ann-Leonie Niss, Anna Milena Okel, Girish Kumar Rachappa , Ingjerd Solheim, Alexander Varekhine & Alessia Vinotto
Production assistant: Marie Heinicke

Deep.Dance

Deep.Dance About Coding Choreography: Three dancers enter into a hermetically soft choreography generated entirely by an artificial intelligence and explore the hyper-logical creativity of code.

Detailed review of Deep.Dance by Robert Matthies in the taz today: https://taz.de/Kuenstliche-Intelligenz-in-der…/!5778800/

Premiered onstage 28 & 29 .05.2021 Wiese eG , Hamburg and Online 17.06.2021.

In Deep.Dance, a team of international artists replaces itself with an artificial intelligence. A complete choreography, created by an artificial neural network that they programmed, is executed down to the last detail by three dancers Girish Kumar Rachappa, Lisa Rykena, Raymond Liew Jin Pin. The strangely familiar movements open up an emphatic view into the hyper-logical world of code and confront the viewers with a construct that is accessible to few people and yet determines our future. The Hamburg based choreographer Jascha Viehstädt creates a silent and soft world of statistically predetermined movements that makes tangible what it means to have human creativity computed by a machine. In this way, the uncompromising simplicity of the piece offers an insight into the basic mechanisms of software and machine learning and questions the hopes and fears that are projected into the development of artificial intelligence. Funded by hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Fonds Darstellende Künste eV.

Artistic Direction, Choreography: Jascha Viehstädt
AI Development, 3D-Design and Coding: Erik Kundt, Lea Schorling, Nikolas Zöller
Dance, Creation : Girish Kumar Rachappa, Lisa Rykena, Raymond Liew Jin Pin
Stage: Takaya Kobayashi
Outfit, 3D-Design: Mia Wittenhaus
Dramaturgy: Felix Meyer-Christian
Graphic Design, PR : Julia Löffler, Lukas Besenfelder
Video: Thomas Oswald
Production Assistance: Nika Viehstädt
More info Via: https://www.deep.dance

"CHERRY RED QUINTET"

Choreographers : Ingjerd Solheim, Angeliki Maridaki
Dancers : Girish Kumar Rachappa, Emelie Wolter, María Paz García, Marlen Nickel, Sakshi Jain

Performed at Lichthof Theater February 2021: https://www.lichthof-theater.de/programm/we-present-17-sobotta-marzecschuermann-solheim-maridaki-michaelbrailey/

”Cherry Red Quintet” is the first collaborative work between Angeliki Maridaki and Ingjerd Solheim, freelance dance artists,who are based in Hamburg. Through this work they promote a bridge between theatrical and dance performative art and invite the audience on a surrealistic and abstract journey. ”Cherry Red Quintet” is not only a gathering of five individuals, but also a ”game” of group dynamics, social relations, stereotypes, everything formed in a delicate and humorous way

"DADDY"

Choreography & Performance: Lucas Kruse Kristiansen
Performance and Co-Choreography: Ingjerd Solheim, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Yashasvi Shrotriya, Felicia Als Klein, Rose Marie Lindstrøm.

”DADDY” is an invitation into the fetish dream of the gay environment, and the issues that brings from this. How we use ”Sugardating” to feel loved, how we abuse our own bodies, and how we let other people with power, money and dominans abuse our bodies. We put ourself into a robot state of mind not to ”feel”, but we actually feel everything. It is suppressed in the need of someone to take care of you, or someone to care about who you are. I am myself in the LGBTQ environment, and there is a lot of support and love, but the side of the extremity is dominating the core of the fellowship. We still do not feel accepted, and the way to protest against that is to use extreme situations to not fit in, when we actually want to be loved for real, to fit in, to be in a society where we are accepted – like a normal human being.
These issues are developed into dance, movement based research with elements of physical theatre and performance art. It will be an invitation inside of the mind of the daddy seekers and extreme life searching experiences, and we want to invite the audience into the universe, problematics and backstage of the abuse of our own bodies to reach something, we do not feel, we can reach otherwise in society or in life.

"BÆST"

Choreography and Concept : Lucas Kruse Kristiansen

Dancers: Girish Kumar Rachappa, Ingjerd Solheim, Yashasvi Shrotriya, Felicia Als Klein, Rose Marie Lindstrøm

Everyone can feel the beast within them like an angry time bomb. Screaming from within to explode into the world! Using the means of contemporary dance, dancingbeasts explores how the structures of the human body react when the beast is released. How does the body position itself in space? Will the mind let go to free our inner animal? How will the body react and move? And above all, how will the people around us react to this outbreak?