PLATFORM 14

Program


Achraf Lansari & Hannah Juliane Steenbeck – It shifted, and so did everything else

Duration: 20 min

This house dance performance explores the interplay between individuality and collectivity, movement and stillness, and connection and separation. The dance floor becomes a shifting landscape in which movement creates invisible spaces and interstices that expand, close, and reshape with each step.

The performers reference each other and trace each other's movements; they structure the space through presence, absence, and return.


Amie-Blaire Chartier & Sarah Gordon Butler – YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WITH YOUR POWERFUL MIND

Duration: 10 min

This contemporary dance duet explores the satisfying feeling of moving in unison and in harmony with one another. Set against a backdrop of sound clips from self-help cassettes designed to promote self-confidence and success, two people embody the power of a positive inner narrative.


Paco Ladrón de Guevara – How noisy is too noisy?

Duration: 11 min

Inspired by Federico García Lorca's El Público, this solo explores how the perception of others influences our identity. The outside perspective is perceived as quite ambivalent, reflecting a generation that yearns for individual uniqueness yet craves external validation. What impact does the constant pursuit of recognition have on the development of authenticity?

Inspired by Federico García Lorca's "The Public," this solo explores the profound influence that the gaze of others has on our identity. This outside gaze is paradoxical, for it is both repulsive and pleasant. It is like warm beer on the skin: sticky, shiny, and impossible to ignore. The piece reflects a generation obsessed with aesthetics, striving for uniqueness, and simultaneously craving external validation. What impact does this constant quest for recognition have on the development of authenticity?


INTERMISSION


Seung Hwan Lee – Colonialism: The Weight of Sound

Duration: 9 min

This duet illustrates the silent mechanisms of power. Through the personification of a metropolis and colony, it becomes clear that domination is usually maintained not through overt violence, but rather subtly, through forms of manipulation disguised as generosity. It also analyzes the structures that contribute to suppressing voices, restricting freedom of movement, and secretly deciding who succeeds and who remains excluded.


Rocio "Pez" Becerra & Liam Wilson – No News

Duration: 16 min

"No News" addresses the state of journalism in the modern world. Various TV news formats serve as the basis for an abstract, poetic, and absurd dance piece in which a dancer and a ball juggler explore their connections and examine their relevance to topics such as trust, neutrality, and authority.


Glenda Gheller / Ocram Dance Movement – Love Parade

Duration: 12 min

A moving exploration of the complexity of love and its power to unite, liberate, and transform. Through a parade of two bodies in constant dialogue with each other, the piece reveals the fragile balance between embrace and farewell, presence and loss. Inspired by the reflections of bell hooks and the Love Parades of the 1990s in Berlin, it explores the various dimensions of love on both a deeply personal and collective level and encourages us to embrace it in all its forms.

90 min plus 15 min intermission