UNTERHALT & UNTERHALTUNG

Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) in 18m Galerie, Berlin | 11 November 2011

2011-10-12T11:59:00.002+02:00

Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam)

performance / installation by Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes
an occurrence of transmedia on-going project Angel Meat

11 november 2011 | 6:00 PM

18m Galerie
Akazienstr. 30 2. OG
10823 Berlin
www.18m-galerie.de

Dancing on Ashes in NK, Berlin | 16-17 June 2011.

2011-04-26T16:20:00.002+02:00

Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) / Dancing on Ashes (circle)

Dancing on Ashes is a multimedia performance series mixing live music and projected narrative texts. An attempt to create a new approach to literature by transposing it into the field of performance arts, it is the backbone of the Angel Meat transmedia project.

Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) is a performance-installation staging self-playing music instruments. It tells the story of Yu, a dancer who decides to join the Dancing on Ashes cabaret show.

Dancing on Ashes (Circle) is a music + text performance with Bertram Dhellemmes playing electronics, that will premiere in NK. You will learn about the Triangle Circle, a group of friends to which belong Skullface, one of the main protagonists of Angel Meat.

More information on www.angelmeat.com

Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) | 16th June, 10 PM

Dancing on Ashes (Circle) | 17th June, 10 PM

Elsenstrasse 52
2.Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin Neukölln
0049(0)17620626386

Dancing on Ashes Hardcore Kunst Cabaret in Schwelle 7, 26/27 February 2011

2011-02-06T10:26:00.008+01:00

Dancing on Ashes

Hardcore Kunst Cabaret

A multimedia revue with strange dance, askew music, dark performances and more, proposed and directed by Bertram Dhellemmes and Felix Ruckert. Come and meet us between worlds!

With the participation of Anna Anderegg, Marco Barotti, Ines Birkhan, Rachel Brooker, Maikel van den Buruku, Cachot an Spielgefahr, Clara, Bertram Dhellemmes, Jessica Peeters, Felix Ruckert, Maurizio Saiu, Andreas Schildbach, Esther Maria Ufer...

Schwelle 7
Uferstrasse 6, HH, 1 Stock
13357 Wedding, Berlin
26-27 February 2011

The Dancing on Ashes performance series is part of Angel Meat.

www.angelmeat.com - www.schwelle7.de

Angel Meat | exhibition in Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart | until 9th January 2011

2010-11-27T18:09:00.006+01:00

You will find an extensive documentation about the Angel Meat exhibition on angelmeat.com

Dancing on Ashes (Johanna) in Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart | 20 November 2010

2010-11-16T02:11:00.003+01:00

PERFORMANCE CANCELLED

"Johanna keeps silent for a while – she often does this in TV interviews
She does take the time to think carefully about what she will answer
But doesn’t bother to make the customary thinkative grimace
These few seconds of void make everything else feel grossly shallow"

Dancing on Ashes (Johanna)

Extended-field-of-literature performance Dancing on Ashes (Johanna), conceived and performed by Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes (Real Dance Super Sentai), closes the second cycle of the Dancing on Ashes performance series. Proposing a new insight on the Angel Meat multimedia project, it introduces the last main character of its fictional universe.

Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart
Schlossplatz 2 D-70173 Stuttgart
20th November 2010 | 8:00 PM

Angel Meat | exhibition in Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart | opening 18 November 2010

2010-11-10T23:09:00.019+01:00

Angel Meat

An extended-field-of-literature exhibition by Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes.

This new actualization of transmedia project Angel Meat is a crossbreed of literature, visual arts and performance proposing novel experiences of narrativity.

More information on www.angelmeat.com

Akademie Schloss Solitude
Solitude 3 70197 Stuttgart
18 Nov. 2010 | 9 Jan. 2011

Dancing on Ashes (Fascinus) in Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart | 20 October 2010

2010-09-27T17:46:00.004+02:00

"Her words are like chiseling blades reorganizing mental matter
And each of them comes with sharp hand and head movements
She shapes meanings with wide-open hands and tense fingers
Until they turn into objects that one could see and feel"

Dancing on Ashes (Fascinus)

Dancing on Ashes (Fascinus) is the 5th performance of the Dancing on Ashes series, another window on the artistic and narrative universe developed in the Angel Meat transmedia project.

a performance by Ines Birkhan, Bertram Dhellemmes & Marco Barotti.

www.angelmeat.com

Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart
Schlossplatz 2 D-70173 Stuttgart
20th October 2010 | 8:00 PM

Ines Birkhan reads excerpts of Chrysalis in K-Salon | 28th May 2010

2010-05-19T10:23:00.002+02:00

Ines Birkhan reads excerpts of her novel Chrysalis, with live music by Bertram Dhellemmes.

K-Salon | Bergmannstrasse 54 10961 Berlin | 28 May 2010, 7:00 PM

www.k-salon.de | inesbirkhan.blogspot.com

Double bill at Sowieso Neukölln, Berlin | 7 May 2001

2010-04-27T15:54:00.010+02:00

Improvised Music

Thea Farhadian: violin, electronics

Daniel Schorno: eponymous electronics

Dancing on Ashes (Lovers)

Ines Birkhan: dance, music

Bertram Dhellemmes: dramaturgy

Sowieso Neukölln e.V. | Weisestr. 24 | 12049 Berlin

www.theafarhadian.com | www.angelmeat.com | www.sowieso-neukoelln.de

Angel Meat continues in 2010

2010-04-04T20:02:00.002+02:00

Real Dance Super Sentai achieved its 6-month residence in Akademie Schloss Solitude end of March but of course the Angel Meat project goes on - with a new series of Dancing on Ashes performances in Berlin and Stuttgart, a 6-week residence in Schloss Solitude in fall 2010 to prepare an Angel Meat exhibition next November, a collaboration with Merz Akademie in Stuttgart for a virtual 3D project and other developments.

You will have more information regularly on www.angelmeat.com, also soon video excerpts of the previous performances, and more video works, texts, photos, etc...

Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) in Akademie Schloss Solitude | 22 March 2010

2010-03-08T12:03:00.007+01:00

“She tries to imagine manufactured objects loving her

How their technological indifference would be stimulating

She tries to imagine herself attired in fishnet and rubber

Warmth underlaid with cold and soft with hard”

Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam)

Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) is a performance-installation by Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes. A hybrid and ambiguous work, it is part of the Dancing on Ashes “expanded field of literature” performance series, and belongs to the long term transmedia project Angel Meat.

www.angelmeat.com

Akademie Schloss Solitude

70197 Stuttgart

22 March 2010 | 8:00 PM

DJ Third Arm & the Tentacles @ Performance Hotel, Stuttgart

2010-02-02T17:59:00.008+01:00

DJ Third Arm and the Tentacles

Michl Schmidt: turntables, arm
David Bausseron: guitars
Bertram Dhellemmes: guitars

François Joly: tapes, radio

6 Feb 2010 - 20:30 PM

Performance Hotel

Gablenberger Hauptstrasse 22
70186 Stuttgart

performancehotel.wordpress.com

Dancing on Ashes (North) in Akademie Schloss Solitude | 14 Jan. 2010

2010-01-02T18:55:00.009+01:00

‘She loosely puts on her army boots and drags her feet to the door

She stands shivering a couple of minutes in the doorway

Staring at what seems to her an almost petrified forest

Until she notices the liveliness of morning birds’ singing’

Dancing on Ashes (North)

A new glimpse at the transmedia Angel Meat multiverse, Dancing on Ashes (North) continues and deepens the exploration of the extended field of literature proposed in Real Dance Super Sentai's previous pieces.

A performance by Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes.

more information on Angel Meat's blog

Akademie Schloss Solitude

70197 Stuttgart

14 January 2010 | 8:00 PM

concert-performance in Akademie Schloss Solitude | 17 dec 2009.

2009-12-09T00:30:00.011+01:00

Kickerkonzert

concert-performance gathering on stage a table football game and music improvisers.

Bertram Dhellemmes: guitar
Matthew Gottschalk: guitar, sound design
François Joly: piano

Zvonimir Marčić: sound design

Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
17 December 2009 - 9:00 PM (Guibal Saal)

Dancing on Ashes (Welcome to) in Projectspace Römerstr., Stuttgart - Dec 4

2009-11-18T18:37:00.014+01:00

Dancing on Ashes (Welcome to)

“Aika is genetically cool
She can’t really do anything else, but this she does perfectly
In such a cool world, she even can make a living out of it
But then she can never leave
She can never leave the cool world"

Dancing on Ashes (Welcome to) is a performance installation that will introduce you to the transmedia multiverse of Angel Meat.

Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes present a composite work involving dance and music performance, video and staged literature. Though Dancing on Ashes (Welcome to) is a piece that stands for itself, it is also an opportunity to start the exploration of a work-in-progress that investigates through different medias the connections between experimental arts, pop subcultures and ancestral cathartic theatre.

Römer VIII - Mit heißer Nadel

Saturday, Dec 5th 2009 at 8pm

Projectspace Römerstr. 2, 70180 Stuttgart

Akademie Schloss Solitude

angelmeatonstage.blogspot.com

A cooperation of Akademie Schloss Solitude and Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg.

Ophelia Rew., 10 0ctober, Lauffen am Neckar

2009-10-09T18:08:00.006+02:00

Ophelia Rew.

Ines Birkhan is dancing the title role in the preview of Norbert Mauk's new piece Ophelia Rew.

Lauffen am Neckar, October 10th.

Ines Birkhan lecture in Kakanien Revisited, October 24

2009-10-09T15:18:00.005+02:00

Kakanien Revisited

Ines Birkhan was invited by Kakanien Revisited to give a lecture at a graduate conference for young literature scientists, about the relation between literature and the Internet. For this occasion, she will make a first public presentation of the transmedia project Angel Meat, focusing on its literature dimension.

Place and time: in Filmarchiv / Vienna, 23 - 24th oct. 2009.

www.kakanien.ac.at

Ines Birkhan's first novel released on October 21

2009-09-29T23:11:00.007+02:00

Chrysalis

Ines Birkhan's first novel Chrysalis will be released on Praesens Verlag on October 21st and will inaugurate their new fiction collection.

You can read some excerpts on Ines Birkhan's blog and will be soon informed here of several manifestations - mostly readings - revolving around this publication.

concert with The Barotti Island | 16 September 2009

2009-09-15T21:16:00.008+02:00

The Barotti Island

at the Pirate Party in Maria am Ostbahnhof.

"We Reall Kill the Monster Kok - Big Show"

Wednesday 16 September 2009 - 20:00

Maria am Ostbahnhof

Schillingbrücke 10243 Berlin

030 21238190‎

www.myspace.com/thebarotti

www.clubmaria.de

concert in -able Galerie, Berlin - 27 June 2009

2009-06-15T00:44:00.008+02:00

Concert

Bertram Dhellemmes: guitar

Rachel Brooker: sensors

(audio costume by Benoît Maubrey)

concert in Taktfrei - Festival für freie Musik

-able Galerie - Hobrechtstrasse 28 12047 Berlin

27 June 2009 - 16:00

http://soundcloud.com/bertramd
http://www.animadance.org
http://www.benoitmaubrey.com
http://www.kultur-able.com
http://www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de

Full Metal Beckett in Amsterdam

2009-04-27T12:09:00.006+02:00

Full Metal Beckett

Next July, Bertram Dhellemmes starts a new collaboration with Dutch dancer and choreographer Frank van de Ven and Australian actor and director Peter Snow. Together they intend to rejuvenate some late Samuel Beckett plays, with guitars and expressive dance...

More about this project later...

Angel Meat in Akademie Schloss Solitude

2009-01-30T12:32:00.004+01:00

Angel Meat

Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes are resident artists in Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2009 for the Angel Meat project. This residence emphasize the literary dimension of the project, since the last version of Angel Meat gives larger room to the writing of Ines Birkhan and the staging of reading. More about it later.

dance video programme in - able, 24 July 2008

2008-05-29T23:06:00.012+02:00

Real Dance Super Sentai proposes two videos showing the dance work of Body Weather practitioners Frank van de Ven and Oguri. Both were part in the 1990s of Min Tanaka's performance company Maijuku - then prolonged their experience into their own dance work, still sharing expressivity, radicality and a strong feeling of here and now.

Ci-Vit

art film by Nathalie Michel, with Frank van de Ven

"Ci-vit" tells the meeting of a dancer and a location.
A programme having been previously established for the order, duration and the intensity of each part in the different spaces, dancer Frank van de Ven explores and reacts organically to sonic, tactile, meteorological and visual elements of this old disabled factory. The editing respects the chronology of the shooting.

Height of Sky

documentary by Morleigh Steinberg, with Oguri

Prior to moving from Japan to America, acclaimed Butoh dancer Oguri had never seen a desert. When he encountered the unforgiving vastness of the California deserts, Oguri was inspired to undertake a four-year personal and artistic journey, during which he created more than fifty original site-specific dances within and around Joshua Tree National Park. Dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Morleigh Steinberg observes and documents Oguri as he explores the literal and psychic borderlands between the body and the landscape.

www.heightofsky.com

curated by
Real Dance Super Sentai

24 July 2008 - 8:00 pm
-able
Hobrechtstraße 28
D-12047 Berlin
www.kultur-able.com

In Girum #5 - flyer

2008-03-21T09:19:00.009+01:00

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In Girum... #5 in Dock 11, Berlin, 8>11 May 2008

2008-03-21T09:03:00.013+01:00

Invitation

concept/choreography: Rachel Brooker

Music: Laura Mello

Dance: Rachel Brooker
Claudia Ginsberg
Nahid Matin Pour
Christine Mauch
Laura Mello
James Neirinck
Maria Pyatkova
Laura Weiss

Video: Kosei Takasaki

Invitation is an interactive dance work which opens with the words: “This is an invitation to touch anywhere on exposed skin. You are free to touch, or not to touch. Please enter the space". Dancers arrange and rearrange themselves, offering and withdrawing parts of the body as they compose their invitations to the audience. In the words of reviewer Adam Bliss, “As I moved about the installation, I was struck by the tenderness and intense concentration shared by dancers and touchers alike”.

The piece was inspired by the following quote:

Things wabi-sabi are usually small and compact, quiet and inward-oriented. They beckon: get close, touch, relate. They inspire a reduction of the psychic distance between one thing and another thing; between people and things.

Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers

Choreographer Rachel Brooker read these words in the Tate Modern café. An image formed- dancers transformed into objects, offered to the audience to be touched, known, experienced. A reduction of the distance between things. Through a season-long rehearsal process and repeated performances the idea has developed and matured into Invitation, a unique and memorable performative proposition.

more info on ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni.blogspot.com

In Girum... #4 flyer

2008-02-17T19:40:00.005+01:00

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In girum #4 in Dock 11, Berlin, 13>16 March 2008

2008-02-17T19:12:00.009+01:00

To struggle

Diego Chamy: dance | Robin Hayward: music

Robin Hayward and Diego Chamy’s work is based on an improvisation of non-reaction, in which the apparent discourse between the two artists turns out to be two separated series of events, each taking place in solitary confinement. This impracticable communication acts as a starting point for a kind of drama, where the stage becomes a diagonal line in which different kinds of events are thrown: concentrations and dispersions of the space-time provided by a percussive and noise-based approach to tuba playing, twisted and out-of-confusion actions and inactions, fake movements, forced displacements and invisible gestures.

Las manos. Son dos

Constanza Brncic: dance - Ferran Fages: music

De pie.
Para no enredarse con la sombra.
La sombra ensambla referencias
equívocas. Cabeza y rodilla,
por ejemplo. O peor,
hombro y objeto sanitario.

De pie.
Para abreviar.

Chantal Maillard, Hilos

Standing.
Not to tangle with shadow.
Shade joins equivocal referencies. Head and knee,
for exemple. Or worst,
shoulder and sanitary object.

Standing.
To abbreviate.

* * *

Artistic supervision: Ines Birkhan + Bertram Dhellemmes

more information on ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni.blogspot.com

press review

2008-01-31T01:22:00.002+01:00

Check this article about In Girum... #3 in the BerlinerMorgenpost.de

In Girum... #3 flyer

2008-01-14T21:40:00.002+01:00

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Angel Meat (part 2) in -able - pictures

2007-12-07T16:39:00.001+01:00

Angel Meat flyer

2007-12-03T00:19:00.003+01:00

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6 December 2007 -8:30 pm - -able Hobrechtstraße 28 D-12047 Berlin www.kultur-able.com

In girum #3 in Dock 11, Berlin, 24>27 January 2008

2007-11-25T15:05:00.002+01:00

Mitwintertanz

Marco Barotti: music - Rebecca Fratini: dance

Mitwintertanz intends to be a dance and music based celebration, offered to anyone who feels a need to celebrate but doesn't know what, why and how. Liveliness and physicality are the easiest things to share.

Rebecca Fratini was born in Sweden in 1981. She started her dance education at Danscenter in Stockholm and received her degree at Tanzakademie Balance 1 in Berlin in 2006. Since September of 2006 she has been working on her own projects as a choreographer and dancer. Among these projects were 2 Imperfect Drops shown at the TanzTage Berlin, Klimazone26 performed in 48 Stunden Neukölln, and Moora wich was a solo dance performance created for an exhibition in Warmsen.

Marco Barotti, drummer and percussionist, is a 2002 graduate from the Siena Jazz Academy. Marco has studied with Alessio Riccio, Francesco Petreni, Mariano Di Nunzio, Roberto Nannetti, Klaus Lessman. Over the past few years Marco played with several artists from all over the world, Lisa Fitzgibbon (Australia) Jono Manson (USA) & Lewin Barringer (USA). In 2004 he received an endorsement from the PanArt Company in Switzerland to help demonstrate and to develop new techniques for their new instrument called the HANG. In 2006 he created the BC Project and started a series of performances based on jazz improvisation and the mixing of acoustic and electronic sounds - using non conventional instruments, exploring the mellow-acoustic sound of the HANG and combining it with a hybrid of loops, delays and distortion to get to a full electro noise beat.

Dioniso Amore Mio

Lara Martelli: dance, music

Dioniso amore mio is a travel through Chaos, searching for the sediment, the aura that the dancing body leaves behind. Surrounded and contrasted by a re-created and artificial Chaos, the dancing body seeks a new internal order.

This instant composition performance is the first stage of a work-in-progress that will later evolve – or regress – into a film and a set piece.

Lara Martelli was born in Pesaro, Italy. She first studied music (violin) in Conservatorio Rossini in Pesaro, then dance - first in New York with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis, she studied and at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen where she graduated. She has worked as a dancer with very different choreographers and theatre directors (among others with Sosta Palmizi, S. Linke, U. Dietrich, R. Leoni, J. Fabre, F. Ruckert). In her work as a performer and choreographer she has changed genre several times and has thereby gathered experience in the field between classical dance theatre, contemporary choreography and improvisation. Her curiosity to explore different body states, energetic transformations and metamorphoses leads her to ever new experiments.

Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes: artistic supervision

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ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni.blogspot.com

Residence in Schloss Bröllin

2007-11-20T02:31:00.001+01:00

You can see pictures of our residence in Schloss Bröllin here.

Review

2007-11-15T00:30:00.002+01:00

"Birkhan's "Butterflies, Sex & Hypochondria" is a body-centered spectacle which draws its strength from transforming sensual perceptions into persuasive images. It is a strong piece, charged on the surface and substantial in the depth. One of those amazing choreographies surfacing in the off-scene that make you think wow, this should run in a theatre with hundreds of seats for a whole season. Until you soberly realize that it would not work, as established art sanctuaries are unapt for these kinds of delicacies..."

Read more of this review by Petr Karlovsky of Butterflies, Sex & Hypochondria's version for In Girum...#1, and also about Untitled, on Modern Dance Reviews.

Angel Meat (part 2) in -able, Berlin > 6 December 2007

2007-10-23T15:30:00.002+02:00

Angel Meat (part 2)

Ines Birkhan: dance
Bertram Dhellemmes: music

Angel Meat is based on a feedback between artistic research and the established rock subculture that is the main background of many western people. Art being for one century busy with defining itself in its successive modern / postmodern / hypermodern manifestations, pop culture has been left dealing with big issues such as death, sexuality, love or metaphysic – often awkwardly, but now it's today's mythology.

A multimedia work in progress, Angel Meat opens up this mythical universe with the strategies of antiformal experimental performance art.

-able
6 December 2007 - 8:30 pm
Hobrechtstraße 28 D-12047 Berlin
www.kultur-able.com

die Welt als wilde Vostellung presentation in Schloß Bröllin > 14 November 2007

2007-10-23T15:12:00.007+02:00

die Welt als wilde Vorstellung

At the end of the 10-day residence in Schloß Bröllin, Real Dance Super Sentai will propose a work-in-progress presentation of the first stage of die Welt als wilde Vorstellung.

More information on dieweltalswildevorstellung.blogspot.com

Schloß Bröllin
14 November 2007 - 8:00 pm
Bröllin 3 D-17309 Fahrenwalde
Tel:+49-039747-5650 - 0
info@broellin.de
www.broellin.de

In Girum #2 - flyer

2007-09-29T18:58:00.003+02:00

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/ seconde main / bains::connective / brussels / 6-7 september 2007 /

2007-08-27T01:52:00.005+02:00

seconde main

Brynjar Bandlien (dance)
David Bausseron (music)
Julien Bruneau (dance)
Bertram Dhellemmes (music)
Dolores Hulan (dance)
Anouk Llaurens (dance)
Sylvia Platzer (music)
Armand van der Hammer (dance)
Hugues Warin (music)

more info and pictures on Seconde Main's blog.

oint.oint.

Julien Bruneau (dance, writing, voice)
Hugues Warin (music)

butterflies, sex & hypochondria

Ines Birkhan (dance)
Silvia Platzer (music)

6 september 2007 oint.oint. + seconde main
7 september 2007 butterflies, sex & hypochondria + seconde main

Bains::Connective
34 rue Berthelotstraat

1190 Bruxelles

In girum #1 flyer

2007-07-25T00:27:00.003+02:00

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In girum #2 in Dock 11, Berlin, 18>21 October 2007

2007-07-24T23:54:00.001+02:00

4 instant composition evenings curated by Real Dance Super Sentai

I am a reborn smoker, dancing the absent body

Robert Steijn

It is on, the search of silence

Ivo Bol + Ailed Izurieta

information on ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni.blogspot.com

seconde main in bains::connective, Brussels, 6-7 September 2007

2007-05-25T13:48:00.001+02:00

oint.oint

Julien Bruneau: dance
Hugues Warin: music

This dance music and poetry project confronts two “monologues”, one from a dancer and the other one from a musician, each one of them being autonomous, a distinct point of view of the same situation.

One of the specificities of the literary form of the monologue is to show a moving thought which stands in the course of passing time, just as the body does. Erasures, incoherences, digressions, rifts are not rocks on which the process stops, but necessary stages to go through.

6 september 2007

Butterflies, Sex & Hypochondria

Ines Birkhan: dance
Silvia Platzer: music

Butterflies, sex & hypochondria is a series of dance works of Ines Birkhan using this title – her personal understanding of how social repression of physicality can be opposed through performance – in a programmatic way.

She conceived the constitutive elements of this dance performance in order to create the conditions to keep building for herself a wild and beautiful becoming.

To share this process with the audience, this stage of the project involves the creation of a fictional character embodying a femininity built from personal experience and cultural models and freely released on stage.

7 september 2007

seconde main

improvisation project proposed by Julien Bruneau

with
Brynjar Bandlien (dance)
David Bausseron (music)
Julien Bruneau (dance)
Bertram Dhellemmes (music)
Dolores Hulan (dance)
Anouk Llaurens (dance)
Sylvia Platzer (music)
Armand van der Hammer (dance)
Hugues Warin (music)

seconde main is a dance and music instant composition project proposed by Julien Bruneau.

During these two evenings, dancers and musicians from Brussels, Berlin and Lille will propose their work based on a common desire to explore further the moment when an exchange between artist and audience happens.

Each evening will present different compositions in which music and dance claim their mutual autonomy, interconnect through changing relations and try to unfold the potential diversity of the group.

6-7 September 2007

bains::connective
Rue Berthelotstraat 34
1190 Vorst|Forest - Brussels

In girum #1 in Dock 11, Berlin, 9>12 August 2007

2007-05-24T19:02:00.001+02:00

4 instant composition evenings curated by Real Dance Super Sentai

Schmetterlinge, Sex & Hypochondrie

Ines Birkhan: dance + concept

„Butterflies, sex & hypochondria“ is part of a series of dance works using this title – a personal understanding of how social repression of physicality can be released through performance – in a programmatic way.

"In case of disturbance the catarpillar withdraws its head downwards, curves the chest section spherically up and presents its eye marks…"

Untitled

Bertram Dhellemmes: music
Helga Wretman: dance

Daniel Keller & Asier Solana: light design

Untitled is an instant composition performance where dance & music are built by mutually founding each other, in a deeply physical and reciprocal manipulation of sound, light, movement and space.

In girum...
9, 10, 11 & 12 August 2007

Dock 11
Kastanienallee 79 10435 Berlin
phone: (004930) 4481222
www.dock11-berlin.de

butterflies, sex & hypochondria in Autresens, 6 July 2007

2007-05-23T22:04:00.001+02:00

Butterflies, Sex & Hypochondria

Ines Birkhan: dance
Bertram Dhellemmes: music

"In case of disturbance the catarpillar withdraws its head downwards, curves the chest section spherically up and presents its eye marks…"

Fàbricadanse
Autresens
4 place du pré commun,
Mazères-sur-Salat, France
6 July 2007
www.autresens.com

Klang zur Stille zum Klang in Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, 25 > 30 June 2007

2007-04-27T09:21:00.002+02:00

Klang zur Stille zum Klang

a video installation by Ines BIRKHAN & Bertram DHELLEMMES

In Klang zur Stille zum Klang – a composite storytelling video installation – are superimposed the meeting of the she-Krampus (a legendary character from the Austrian Alps) and the new inhabitants of the mountains, and the tribulations of Tchumuki, a rebel employée of the silence factory.

Rencontres Internationales
Babylon:Mitte Movie Theatre
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30
D-10178 Berlin
U2 Rosa-Luxemburg Platz
25 > 30 June 2007 - 2pm > 8pm
www.art-action.org

Klang zur Stille zum Klang in Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, 28 April > 5 May 2007

2007-04-24T13:43:00.004+02:00

Klang zur Stille zum Klang

a video installation by Ines BIRKHAN & Bertram DHELLEMMES

In Klang zur Stille zum Klang – a composite storytelling video installation – are superimposed the meeting of the she-Krampus (a legendary character from the Austrian Alps) and the new inhabitants of the mountains, and the tribulations of Tchumuki, a rebel employée of the silence factory.

This video work is a research in creating a hybrid media, a "video-novel" aiming to develop new forms of narrativity by combining differents field of arts – literature, dance, music and video. Here, images and sounds are not the supports of narration (which claims its rooting in the tradition of novel or even fable), but strongly influence its perception at the edge of consciousness, and also link reading to the temporality of audiovisual. In this interlacing of sensitive and intellectual perceptions, each element is carefully articulated to the others to elaborate a larger though still discreet experience.

In the “video-novels” series to which Klang zur Stille zum Klang belongs, the combination of images, sounds and texts allows an exploration of an ‘extended field of literature’. It proposes a complexity of perception that requires the full involvement of the audience, as well as openness at different intellectual and emotional levels, thus renewing the fundamental experience of reading. A framed time for reading provides a musicality that is not limited to the audible but indeed in the structural perception of time. The images are not anymore the centre of the proposal but a sensitive background that prepare the reception of the text, and the music is building a homogeneous environment. The fictional universe built by the narrative is also composite, making myth and modernity one, linking fairytale and social concern, and this reflects in the language used, a creative extrapolation both familiar and strange.

Klang zur Stille zum Klang was premiered in the exhibition Mythen für die Zukunft in Cabaret Renz, Vienna, in January 2006.

Rencontres Internationales
Circulo de Bellas Artes
c/ Alcalá, 42 - 28014 Madrid
From April 28th to May 5th 2007
11:00 > 21:00
www.art-action.org

den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen, released on March 19 in Peter Lang Verlag

2007-03-26T08:46:00.002+02:00

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen

short story and portfolio by Ines Birkhan

Can the reenactment of the Ramayana take place in a gender deprived society (where women can be confused with gazelles) ? What is the role then of the Professor, involved in his quest to a lost fertility as the world has become a toxic waste which ground is too foul to allow human foot to be set on it, and bares only the eerie todeng plants? And is all this happening on or off stage, when dance and choir seem to be part of normal life ?

In Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen, Ines Birkhan builds a complex and personal universe, based – but not only – on her experience as a dance performer, and interrogations on relations between nature and culture…

Accompanied by essais by Hans-Dieter Klein, Evelin Klein & Ingvild Birkhan.

Peter lang Verlag, Vienna, Reihe Persephone 5, Technikkritik & Ästhetik

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen + guests in Dock 11, Berlin > 22-29 March 2007

2007-02-02T12:31:00.003+01:00

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen

dance + text performance

Ines Birkhan: dance, choreography, text
Bertram Dhellemmes: music, video, dramaturgy

a Real Dance Super Sentai joint

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen is a dance/text performance that creates a connection of the two media, while they are conveying meaning in different ways.

In the fiction of the text the protagonist finds a way to re-root himself into the toxic ground by falling back on a ritualistic dance form. The dance on stage develops a world of perception articulated to the text and relies on the want for language of the body.

This performance tells a story about potential future, about the transformation of bodies and environment dominated but uncontrolled by technoscience. One could call it science fiction, a fable or philosophical tale.

22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 March 2007, 8:30 pm

guest acts

vrac pli

choreography and dance: Julien Bruneau

with the help of: Ines Birkhan, Alix de Morant

A walk digs into space. Then a dance arises.
The dance digs into the person dancing. Then a travel arises.
Each moment is a question for the previous moment.
Each moment is bending towards itself to find the lever,
which will pour it into the next one.

vrac pli is a travel towards a travel, rooted in the desire to confront dance practice and work to the musical world of Italian composer Luigi Nono (1924-1990).

a Netwerk (Aalst) production, with the support of asbl VEGA (Brussel), De Pianofabriek (Brussel), Summer Studio’s (Brussel) and Point Ephémère (Paris)

Julien Bruneau is based in Belgium where he first studied visual art. His artistic research led him towards dance, his main activity since then. His current approach to contemporary dance passes by a continuous personal research and practice oncerned by the articulation of body and mind. For several years, he creates his own pieces and collaborates with people involved in various art fields. Beside he is also a performer for other’s project, currently for Stefan Dreher’s company.

22 & 23 March 2007

The Devil in the Ear / Whose body is it, Anyway

A dance improvisation embedded in silence by Katerina Bakatsaki

Katerina Bakatsaki (GR, NL) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and sworn improviser, based in Amsterdam. Her approach to performance is currently focused on the immersion of the dancing / performing body to the quotidian. She sees dance as an act- of will- at-its-best and works without distinction as much with professional dancers, actors and musicians as with people of all experiences, ages and paths of life. She dances and presents work just about anywhere, from Opera Comique in Paris to downtown streets of Athens and Taipei, to tram stops and private houses in Amsterdam, in their most insignificant and non-dramatic places. As she assumes the principle of The Performer being the Performance, any time is the time and any place is the place.

24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 March 2007

Dock 11
Kastanienallee 79 10435 Berlin
phone: (004930) 4481222
www.dock11-berlin.de

Die Welt als wilde Vorstellung in Schloß Bröllin > November 2007

2007-01-01T02:22:00.002+01:00

Real Dance Super Sentai's new performance project Die Welt als wilde Vorstellung will be in residence in Schloß Bröllin in November 2007.

For information about the working process, please click here.

Alpiner Exorzismus in WUK, Vienna > 31 January > 7 February 2007

2006-12-08T17:10:00.003+01:00

Alpiner Exorzismus

dance video, 2004, DV, 61'
conceived and directed by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes
production Real Dance Super Sentai
with the support of Nadine & Villa Proudhon

Crossbreeds / Plattform für künstlerische Positionen im Dazwischen / Tanz / Performance / Neue Medien
31 January - 7 February 2007
WUK
Währingerstrasse 59
1090 Vienna, Austria
info@wuk.at
www.wuk.at

Alpiner Exorzismus at Salon Vidéo d'Hiver, Brussels > 28 January 2007

2006-12-03T17:08:00.002+01:00

Alpiner Exorzismus

dance video, 2004, DV, 61'
conceived and directed by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes
production Real Dance Super Sentai
with the support of Nadine & Villa Proudhon

#2 Salon Vidéo d'Hiver
27 & 28 january 2007
Salon Mommen : Ateliers Mommen asbl
37 rue de la charité 1210 Brussels

Angel Meat/Noughts in Dock11, Berlin > 10/11 February 2007

2006-12-01T19:15:00.003+01:00

an instant composition performance evening curated by Real Dance Super Sentai

Angel Meat

Kyung-sun Baek: dance - Bertram Dhellemmes: music

Angel Meat is based on a feedback between artistic research and the established rock subculture that is the main background of western people. Art being for one century busy defining itself in its successive modern / postmodern / hypermodern manifestations, pop culture has been left dealing with big issues such as death, sexuality, love or metaphysic – often awkwardly, but now it's today's mythology.

A multimedia work in progress, Angel Meat opens up this mythical universe with the strategies of informal experimental performance art – the current issue involving music (Bertram Dhellemmes) and dance (Kyung-sun Baek).

Noughts

Daniel Schorno: music - Frank van de Ven: dance

'Noughts' is the platform Daniel Schorno (electronics) and Frank van de Ven (dance) created to breach boundaries of dialectics between sound, gesture, motion & video art, through improvisation of a hyper sensitive nature.

The duo uses the notion of 'nought', archaic interpretations of the term, a frantic game of 'noughts & crosses', played out to exhaustion and the inspiration of the meanings of 'zero', into performances of great delicacy and power.

Both are based in Amsterdam and are travelling and performing individually and together the world over.

10 & 11 February 2007, 8:30 pm
Dock 11
Kastanienallee 79 10435 Berlin
phone: (004930) 4481222
www.dock11-berlin.de

L'Eve Future, work in progress presentation, Amsterdam > 10 july 2006

2006-06-20T10:56:00.003+02:00

Eve Future

A dance and music theatre alternative adaptation
of the book by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam.

by
Bertram Dhellemmes
Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir
Esther Mugambi

L'Eve Future is a remarkable novel written in 1886 by the visionary and dandy author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle Adam. An improbable and genius meeting of decadent French romantic literature and early science-fiction, this book issued the modern myth of the artificial woman – at first the slave ofpatriarchal desire but eventually the freeing figure underlying cyberfeminism.

This 'andréide' – Hadaly – is built by an idealised Thomas Edison as a perfect lover for his friend Lord Ewald, replacing his beautiful yet shallow girlfriend. The book is awfully misogynist, not only in the idea of building a perfect woman – perfect because obedient –,but all the female characters being vile, mediocre, manipulating, only to be replaced by machines.

This adaptation of L'Eve Future for stage is based on adopting the point of view of the female protagonists of Villiers de l'Isle Adam's book to rewrite the alternative story of this creating a new woman, eventually on an agenda uncontrolled by men.

Alpiner Exorzismus in Begane Grond Festival, Den Haag, 14 > 18 april 2006

2006-03-25T00:05:00.005+01:00

Alpiner Exorzismus

dance video, 2004, DV, 61'
conceived and directed by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes
production Real Dance Super Sentai
with the support of Nadine & Villa Proudhon

In the meadows, in the forests, in the snowfields, on the summits, by the streams dwell and frolic the little people of the Alp mountains and some inflatable orc on its quest for absolute white. A slow burn twisted fairy tale with askew words, songs and dances.

From the contemplation of the alpine landscapes – the last wild space in the old Europe – spring up unexpected characters, as a new pocket mythology for the deserted Alp mountains. Busy with mysterious tasks, accomplishing meticulous rituals, meeting and communicating in their rare dialect, the Kogan (maintainer of the landscape and inspired rhetorician), the Red Highlander (who strides over the mountain paths to connect his people), the Butterfly Lady (whose dances and songs fills the dreams of all) and many more invite us to penetrate their universe, while a tourist wanders in the snow fields, maybe looking for the sea, carrying an improbable inflatable blue orc.

Adopting sometimes the form of a nature documentary (you will learn on the occasion about the spiteful alpine varan), Alpiner Exorzismus is definitely built on a narrative frame – where dance takes the place of action. The Austrian dancer and choreographer Ines Birkhan interprets all the roles, basing her dance and acting on an intimate relation to the alpine landscapes – also the result of a long performing process.

CASUARIESTRAAT 16, DEN HAAG
14 > 18 april 2006

the wood for the trees in Springdance/Preview > 18/19 april 2006

2006-03-22T01:02:00.002+01:00

the wood for the trees

created and performed by Esther Mugambi
dramaturgy & scenography: Bertram Dhellemmes

18/19 april 2006 - 7PM
Theater Kikker
Ganzenmarkt 14, Utrecht NL

For information and reservations:
www.theaterkikker.nl
+31 30 2319666

Anni in 100°, HAU 1 Bühne, Berlin > 02 February 2006

2006-01-26T13:42:00.003+01:00

Anni, der weibliche Name des Widerstands

Regie: Daniela Deinhammer
Spiel: Astrid Monet
Ausstattung: Grete Pauler
Sound design: Bertram Dhellemmes
Produktionsleitung: Pierre-Emmanuel Finzi

02/02/2006 - 21.00

HAU 1, Stresemannstrasse 29,10963 Berlin

Der Prosatext „Anni“ ist einer der sieben Berichte aus Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumers 1980 erschienenem Buch „Der weibliche Name des Widerstands“. Unter der Prämisse, die Bedingungen des Widerstandes seien für Frauen anders darzustellen als für Männer, geht die Autorin darin dem Leben und Sterben von sieben Frauen aus Österreich im Nationalsozialismus nach und schlägt dabei eine Brücke in ihr Heute.

Auf zwei unterschiedlichen Ebenen - einer diskursiven und einer emotionalen - erzählt der Text (Annis) Geschichte; unsere Auseinandersetzung damit ist auch der Versuch, Reflexion und Kritik zu inszenieren. Eine Schaupielerin spielt die unterschiedlichen Stimmen und Wir-Chöre, die die Autorin komponiert hat: insbesondere die Stimmen / Figuren von Anni und ihrer Mutter neben dem erzählerischen Ich.

download - programm-100°

The Bush Administration in Hetveem Theater > 7,8 January 2006

2006-01-03T16:46:00.003+01:00

The Bush Administration

a project by Robert Steijn

with Robert Steijn, Ines Birkhan, Kyungsun Baek, Michael Schumacher, Ro Hagers
video: Bertram Dhellemmes

with the support of
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
hetveem theater
Studio Entre Nous

Van Diemenstraat 410
1013 CR Amsterdam
t: 020-6260112
f: 020-4223961
veeminfo@hetveemtheater.nl
www.hetveemtheater.nl

Mythen für die Zukunft 1 in Cabaret Renz until January 10th 2006

2005-12-23T18:14:00.002+01:00

prolongation of the exhibition Mythen für die Zukunft 1

3 video installations by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes
Cabaret Renz, Wien, December 9th 2005 > January 10th 2006

Cabaret Renz, Zirkusgasse 50 1020 Wien, Austria

performance in WUK > 2 december 2005

2005-12-01T17:05:00.002+01:00

dance improvisation by Ines Birkhan

this performance is part of the
WILDE MISCHUNG festival in WUK Friday
2nd December 2005 - 07:00 pm
Amanda Sage's atelier in WUK
Währinger Straße 59A 1090 Wien

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen / a performance by Ines Birkhan / WUK Vienna > 3 December 2005

2005-11-22T17:53:00.002+01:00

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen

multimedia performance

dance, choreography, text: Ines Birkhan
music, video: Bertram Dhellemmes

den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen is a dance/text performance.
It is a story for coming generations.
I want to tell it to my unborn child.

This performance is constructing a story about
potential future, about the changes of bodies
and their environment, about physicality in our
society, about a system dominated by techno-science.

You could call it a science-fiction story,
a fable or a philosophical tale.

Mythen für die Zukunft 1 / Cabaret Renz Vienna > December 2005

2005-11-16T14:11:00.002+01:00

Mythen für die Zukunft 1

3 video installations by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes

Cabaret Renz, Wien, 9>31 December 2005

The 3 video installations composing Mythen für die Zukunft 1 are based on the principle of the video novel, where the multimedia process of combined images, sounds and texts allows an exploration of an ‘extended field of literature’.

They intend to propose a complexity of perception that requires the full involvement of the audience, as well as openness at different intellectual and emotional levels, thus renewing the fundamental experience of reading.

Literature and poetry being the historical main means of myths transmission make writing the proper medium to establish new values and new figures, even those of our technological era.
New medias that were prophesized to endanger writing proved themselves a precious support to it, and their open aesthetics give space to multiplicity of tangent and interlaced experiences.

the wood for the trees / esther mugambi

2005-10-07T18:52:00.002+02:00

the wood for the trees / for a few seconds maybe you really were yourself / melkweg theater amsterdam 8/9/11/12 october

2005-10-01T13:31:00.002+02:00

the wood for the trees

created and performed by Esther Mugambi
dramaturgy & scenography: Bertram Dhellemmes
advisor: Barbara Gene

for a few seconds maybe you really were yourself

created and performed by Adva Zakai
advisor: Marijke Hoogenboom
research collaborators: Katja Dreyer, David Hendrickx

a double-bill evening produced by Danswerkplaats Amsterdam
performed at the Melkweg Theater Lijnbaansgracht 234 Amsterdam
8/9/11/12 October 8.30 pm reservation 020 531 8181 www.melkweg.nl

one point of departure, two directions, two solos
camouflage, the moment of absorption and disappearance
to be visible, to be seen, found, unmasked
to hide, to be else
someone else
something
to impersonate, dissolve
to be saturated
to be disowned, de-skinned
to be concealed