This Thing I Am (Martin Nachbar)

„This Thing I am“ is a sort of DIY science-fiction, made for a small collective of three dancers as cyborgs, somewhen, somwhere. The piece has approximately the form of a choreographed radioplay, in English and in Dance.
We have always tried to improve our bodies and balance out the shortfalls through technologies: pacemakers and hearing aids, chips and smartphones – you can no longer call this just science fiction. Ultimately within the body of a cyborg the borders between body and technology become blurred: biological and technological materials intermingle. Even dance attempts experiments with body techniques and allows the border between the natural and technological to melt away. This Thing I Am is the search for what we might will have been.

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Dates:

Sat.

17.6.

20:30

ca. 60 Min.

Sun.

18.6.

18:00

ca. 60 Min.

Venue:
Sophiensæle, Sophienstraße 18, Mitte, 10178 Berlin

Wheelchair accessible (Information provided by the organisers.)

Rollstuhlfahrende und Gehbehinderte möchten wir bitten, sich im Vorfeld bei uns anzumelden.

Credits:

Artistic Direction: Martin Nachbar
Dance & Choreography: Lisa Densem, Sunniva Vikør Egenes, Benjamin Pohlig
Costume: Marion Montel
Lighting Design: Bruno Pocheron
Stage Design: Marion Montel, Martin Nachbar, Jeroen Peeters
Production Management: Susanne Beyer

A production of Martin Nachbar in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Senate Department Department of Culture. In cooperation with Milchhof, Uferstudios Berlin and Höllen-Sprudel. Tanzscout is funded by mapping dance berlin. Thanks to Gabi Altevers and Judith Weber for the graphic support.
Special thanks to Jeroen Peeters.

Participants:

» Martin Nachbar

Venue Info:

» Sophiensæle

The Sophiensæle is one of the most important locations for German-speaking independent art-production. Artists from Berlin, as well as the national and international theatre-scene are invited to produce and present their works here. They are selected on the basis of their artis-tic concepts, contents, and working schemes. The theatre is home to cultural discourse and a vast mix of artistic genres – from theatre, dance and music, to performance and visual art - which complement each other and enjoy a productive dialogue. Alongside many young artists searching for new theatrical languages and forms of expression, a number of established artists and companies have longstanding partnerships with the Sophiensæle.