Greyline
Performance by Renae Shadler
Performance
© Piotr Pietrus
Ticket Prices
Free admission.
Please register to take part in the performance course.
Ticket Prices
Free admission.
Please register to take part in the performance course.
Ticket Prices
Free admission.
Please register to take part in the performance course.
The 'grey line' is a metaphor for the soft and blurry transition from day to night. In the new performance and moving installation ‘Greyline’ by Renae Shadler, the movements of five dancers intertwine with two ethereal aerocene sculptures. These 400 cubic metre large sculptures - inflated by air, carried by wind, and lifted by the sun - call us to blur the lines between human and non-human realms and daringly challenge geopolitical boundaries.
As the dancers journey with the sun through the park, they merge with the qualities of all three atmospheric forces powering the sculptures, aiming to dissolve perceived barriers that are not recognized by these global entities. The audience, surrounded by an airy vocal composition of percussive and murmuring soundscapes, accompanies them on this collective drift through Gleisdreieck Park.
‘Greyline’ is the second part of a trilogy that began with the piece ‘Under my Gaze’ (2022). It continues Renae Shadler's choreographic research into how more-than-human relationships can be made tangible in performance art. The project combines dance, science and installation and is being created in collaboration with the Aerocene Foundation.The foundation was initiated by the visual artist Tomás Saraceno and is dedicated to the testing and development of aerosolar sculptures.
Cast
Concept, choreography, performance
Renae Shadler
Co-creation and performance
Katrina Bastian
Luan de Lima
Jan Lorys
Dorota Michalak
Dramaturgy
Maikon K
Voice dramaturgy and voice coach
Joris Camelin
Costume design
Camille Lacadee
Production and distribution
Dörte Wolter
Production assistance
Therese Bendjus
Photos
Piotr Pietrus
Video
Camille Lacadee
Inspired by
Susurrus Group, 2017-2020:
Samuel Hertz
Maria Nurmela
Kalle Ropponen
Renae Shadler
Biographien
Renae Shadler is a Berlin-based choreographer, performer and researcher who approaches choreography as a social tool to center peripheral bodies. Past projects have been presented at Palais de Tokyo Museum (FR) and New Baltic Dance (LI), among others. Her mixed-ability duet ‘SKIN’ with Roland Walter was selected for Aerowaves 2021 and Tanzplattform Deutschland 2022. Since 2021, she curates the 'Moving across Thresholds' workshop series, which deals with the perception of structural and physical boundaries and interprets them as thresholds that invite us to think and act differently. https://renaeshadler.com
The dancer Katrina Bastian worked with the New Zealand Dance Company, Footnote Dance NZ (Choreoco), and Black Grace Dance Company while living in New Zealand (2020-2022). Since moving back to Berlin, they have worked with Paula Rosolen/ Haptic Hide, Yoriko Maeno, Rachel Monosov, Emma W. Howes, Renae Shadler, and July Weber.
Jan Lorys holds a Master of Arts from the Faculty of Dance Theatre at the State Theatre School in Krakow. He has lived in Berlin since 2017, where he works as a freelance dancer and collaborates with Isabelle Schad, among others. He is also part of the Make a Move Collective.
Dorota Michalak is a dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. Her work takes forms of staged and site-adaptive performances, as well as social and educational projects. As a dancer she has collaborated with i.a: Isabelle Schad, Alice Chauchat, Zufit Simon, Renae Shadler, Pauline Payen.
Luan de Lima is a professional dancer interested in movement as a way of communication and relation to what happens around us. His interest varies from exploring and sharing kinaesthetic experiences. He has been part of dance projects from Helene Weinzierl/CieLaroque (AT), Company Willi Dorner (AT), Anton Lachky dance Company (BE), Mirjam Sögner (AT/DE), Renae Shadler (AU/DE), and others.
As a solo artist, Maikon K has been researching hybrid dramaturgies, abject poetics, shamanic practices and the grotesque. In 2015, he was invited by Marina Abramović to integrate the exhibition Terra Comunal in São Paulo. Born in Brazil, he moved to Germany in 2020 with support from the Martin Roth Initiative for Artists at Risk. In 2022 he received the Fellowship Weltoffenes Berlin. As a dramaturgist, he currently collaborates with the choreographers Michelle Moura and Renae Shadler.
Camille Lacadee is a scenographer & visual. Her work has been exhibited at various Biennials (notably Venice, Singapore and Chicago), galleries and museums around the world. Playing at the various intersections of the digital, the physical & the psychological, her work seeks to create ‘psychoscapes’, environments mixing different mediums.
Joris Camelin works as dancer, performer and vocal improviser, collaborating among others with choreographers such as Meg Stuart, Laurent Chétouane, Constanza Macras and Mark Tompkins. Camelin currently gives workshops around Europe and collaborates with artists from the fields of dance, theatre, music, architecture and visual arts.
Programme
Duration approx. 90 minutes
Location
The event will take place in the Park am Gleisdreieck.
Meeting point
Möckernstraße 26, 10963 Berlin
Loading area in front of the German Museum of Technology
Language
In German and English
Credits
Presented by Renae Shadler & Collaborators in collaboration with the Aerocene Foundation. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as well as the Artists in Residence Programme of fabrik Potsdam. In cooperation with Radialsystem.
Media partnerships: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung and tip Berlin.
The 'grey line' is a metaphor for the soft and blurry transition from day to night. In the new performance and moving installation ‘Greyline’ by Renae Shadler, the movements of five dancers intertwine with two ethereal aerocene sculptures. These 400 cubic metre large sculptures - inflated by air, carried by wind, and lifted by the sun - call us to blur the lines between human and non-human realms and daringly challenge geopolitical boundaries.
As the dancers journey with the sun through the park, they merge with the qualities of all three atmospheric forces powering the sculptures, aiming to dissolve perceived barriers that are not recognized by these global entities. The audience, surrounded by an airy vocal composition of percussive and murmuring soundscapes, accompanies them on this collective drift through Gleisdreieck Park.
‘Greyline’ is the second part of a trilogy that began with the piece ‘Under my Gaze’ (2022). It continues Renae Shadler's choreographic research into how more-than-human relationships can be made tangible in performance art. The project combines dance, science and installation and is being created in collaboration with the Aerocene Foundation.The foundation was initiated by the visual artist Tomás Saraceno and is dedicated to the testing and development of aerosolar sculptures.
Cast
Concept, choreography, performance
Renae Shadler
Co-creation and performance
Katrina Bastian
Luan de Lima
Jan Lorys
Dorota Michalak
Dramaturgy
Maikon K
Voice dramaturgy and voice coach
Joris Camelin
Costume design
Camille Lacadee
Production and distribution
Dörte Wolter
Production assistance
Therese Bendjus
Photos
Piotr Pietrus
Video
Camille Lacadee
Inspired by
Susurrus Group, 2017-2020:
Samuel Hertz
Maria Nurmela
Kalle Ropponen
Renae Shadler
Biographies
Renae Shadler is a Berlin-based choreographer, performer and researcher who approaches choreography as a social tool to center peripheral bodies. Past projects have been presented at Palais de Tokyo Museum (FR) and New Baltic Dance (LI), among others. Her mixed-ability duet ‘SKIN’ with Roland Walter was selected for Aerowaves 2021 and Tanzplattform Deutschland 2022. Since 2021, she curates the 'Moving across Thresholds' workshop series, which deals with the perception of structural and physical boundaries and interprets them as thresholds that invite us to think and act differently. https://renaeshadler.com
The dancer Katrina Bastian worked with the New Zealand Dance Company, Footnote Dance NZ (Choreoco), and Black Grace Dance Company while living in New Zealand (2020-2022). Since moving back to Berlin, they have worked with Paula Rosolen/ Haptic Hide, Yoriko Maeno, Rachel Monosov, Emma W. Howes, Renae Shadler, and July Weber.
Jan Lorys holds a Master of Arts from the Faculty of Dance Theatre at the State Theatre School in Krakow. He has lived in Berlin since 2017, where he works as a freelance dancer and collaborates with Isabelle Schad, among others. He is also part of the Make a Move Collective.
Dorota Michalak is a dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. Her work takes forms of staged and site-adaptive performances, as well as social and educational projects. As a dancer she has collaborated with i.a: Isabelle Schad, Alice Chauchat, Zufit Simon, Renae Shadler, Pauline Payen.
Luan de Lima is a professional dancer interested in movement as a way of communication and relation to what happens around us. His interest varies from exploring and sharing kinaesthetic experiences. He has been part of dance projects from Helene Weinzierl/CieLaroque (AT), Company Willi Dorner (AT), Anton Lachky dance Company (BE), Mirjam Sögner (AT/DE), Renae Shadler (AU/DE), and others.
As a solo artist, Maikon K has been researching hybrid dramaturgies, abject poetics, shamanic practices and the grotesque. In 2015, he was invited by Marina Abramović to integrate the exhibition Terra Comunal in São Paulo. Born in Brazil, he moved to Germany in 2020 with support from the Martin Roth Initiative for Artists at Risk. In 2022 he received the Fellowship Weltoffenes Berlin. As a dramaturgist, he currently collaborates with the choreographers Michelle Moura and Renae Shadler.
Camille Lacadee is a scenographer & visual. Her work has been exhibited at various Biennials (notably Venice, Singapore and Chicago), galleries and museums around the world. Playing at the various intersections of the digital, the physical & the psychological, her work seeks to create ‘psychoscapes’, environments mixing different mediums.
Joris Camelin works as dancer, performer and vocal improviser, collaborating among others with choreographers such as Meg Stuart, Laurent Chétouane, Constanza Macras and Mark Tompkins. Camelin currently gives workshops around Europe and collaborates with artists from the fields of dance, theatre, music, architecture and visual arts.
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