Antonia Baehr & Latifa Laâbissi
Collaging the Impure
masterclass
September 7 | 10:30 am — 1:30 pm
Teatro India
The masterclass requires no prior training. Sound artists, performer and choreographers are welcome.
Collaging the Impure focuses on composition practices through collage and montage, using all kinds of materials to create situations that foster movement and the writing/reading of scores. Improvisation and instant creation techniques will guide the imagination towards gestures aimed at reinterpreting reality. These will be opportunities to multiply the analysis of the produced images and actions, creating underground connections and critical registers processed collectively.
Various models of group creation will be explored, examining the boundaries between score and interpretation through compositional games that blend the history of representations with the collective imagination. The workshop encourages a playful approach to group creation.
Antonia Baehr & Latifa Laâbissi will also be present at Short Theatre 2024 with the performance Cavaliers Impurs (Troubled Riders).
The Short Theatre 2024 workshops are free of charge. To participate, you are required to register by sending an e-mail to shorttheatrefestival@gmail.com, indicating in the subject line the title of the workshop and in the body your name, surname, telephone number and a short introduction. Reservations will be accepted subject to availability.
Deadline for registration: August 28
Antonia Baehr is a performer, video maker, choreographer and visual artist. She seeks to look behind the facade of performance within daily life and the facade of theatre itself, working on the margins of everything that characterizes us as human beings – positioning herself to sensually swing through various critical positions. In addition to choreographic elements, she is interested in the rules and laws that society (and theatre space) assign to bodies, to make them recognizable and understandable. She collaborates with Neo Hülcker, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Andrea Neumann, Latifa Laâbissi, Jule Flierl, and others interested in exchanging roles. Lately, she has been working on collaborative duets. Baehr is also the producer for dancer Werner Hirsch, the musician and choreographer Henri Gelar, and the composer and performer Henry Wilde.
Latifa Laâbissi is a choreographer and performer who mixes genres and redefines formats: her creations bring different off-stage/off-field elements to the stage, channelling different characters and voices. Since 2011 she has been the artistic director of the Extension Sauvage Arts, education and pedagogical festival program in rural Brittany. In 2016, Editions Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and Les presses du réel published a monograph of her work. She has duetted with Antonia Baehr, Manon de Boer and Marcelo Evelin. In 2022, she created Fugitive Archives for the CCN Ballet de Lorraine. She and Antonia Baehr presented previews for MOVE 2021 at the Centre Pompidou. This performance is the starting point for Cavaliers Impurs, a new creation first presented in autumn 2023 at the HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin and the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes, where she has been an associated artist since 2021.
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