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Thinking about that place – Maria Colusi
The human body and architecture are deeply intertwined — both shape how we move, feel, and belong. This work explores space and material as extensions of the body, where intimate, personal gestures (microspaces) expand into collective, spatial expressions (macrospaces).
Cardboard, chosen for its simplicity and transformative potential, becomes both structure and metaphor: fragile yet resilient, temporary yet full of possibility. Within this landscape, the idea of home emerges as a shared symbol of refuge and memory — a meeting point between the tangible and the emotional.
Through movement and collaboration, the dancers continuously build, dismantle, and rebuild space, revealing how environments — like bodies — are in constant transformation. At its heart, the piece is an exploration of how we invent and reinvent the places we inhabit, together.
graue – Lena Reyle
"There is a great and yet quite commonplace secret", "Everyone has a part in it, everyone knows it, but very few people think about it. Most people just accept it and don't wonder about it at all. This secret is time." Inspired by the words Michael Ende from his novel “Momo”, Lena Reyle explores the concept of ‘time’ and draws attention to how inexorably and mercilessly time moves forward - with every tick of the clock another moment is lost.
Under the velvet wing – Luisa Winterfeld
A shadow gathers.
Not to frighten — but to shimmer.
Nine bodies flicker into one:
a wing made of breath,
a beak of pulse and hush.
It is not only omen.
It is laughter caught in a storm cloud,
memory dressed in ink,
a question that refuses to be answered.
It leans close.
Closer.
Then, unfolds.
Under the velvet wing explores the many faces of darkness — not only as fear or foreboding, but as mystery, memory, wit, and resilience. Inspired by the raven’s symbolic weight in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “the Raven”, the choreography examines what emerges when heaviness meets light, when omen becomes companion. Through shifting formations of nine bodies, the piece invites audiences to reconsider the raven not as a harbinger of doom, but as a guardian of truth — the presence that lingers not to torment, but to remind us of what we refuse to see.
„Thinking about that place“
Direction and Choreography: Maria Colusi
Music: Edgardo Rudnitzky
Assistant: Ana Zampaglione
Duration: 20´
„graue“
Direction and Choreography: Lena Reyle
Composer & Sound designer: Rafael Cañete Fernándes
Composer, Voice, Saxophone & Guitar: Lea Sittler
Duration: 25´
„Under the velvet wing“
Direction and Choreography: Luisa Winterfeld
Music: still pending
Duration: 17´
Dancers/ performers: DANCEWORKS berlin students as well as external dancers and graduates
DANCEWORKSberlin gGmbH, Tanzraum Wedding GbR, copypiraten
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