Biomorphil is a piece of expanded choreography. It’s inspired by symbiotic social structures we find in nature like coral reefs or forests. In order to survive, all their tiny bits are in constant movement and interaction with each other. Together with a team of 7 artists of various disciplines, we created our own little ecosystem that consists of humans, textile, portable loudspeakers and moving lights. Biomorphil is a transdiciplinary creature with it’s own life, it’s own logic and it’s own movements than you get to enjoy will all of your your senses.
My graduate project is titled "The Courage to Change" and its main purpose is to go against all sorts of psychological bullying that leads the most sensitive people to not believe in themselves, and therefore have more difficulty understanding their role in the world. So the themes I deal with are the need for self-expression and the acceptance of our body and mind, topics that are similar in my thesis.
When I decided to devise a small film to represent this topical, I thought a lot about what images the outside audience might remember in order for my work to serve something greater. In this film I portray myself as the embodiment of any twenty-one year old boy, living a silent day lost in thought, until he looks in front of the mirror and sees imprinted on himself all the words that other people have said with the goal of hurting him. Through this video narration I wrote a monologue and recorded my voice so that the viewer would be guided by my words to better understand the meaning of what he would have seen, and thus metabolize it.
Towards the middle of the film there is a transition that completely reverses the scenario, at that moment I represent another topic taken from my thesis and of personal interest: Boylesque, which is a discipline that was born after the evolution of dance, and obviously takes its origin from Burlesque but taking as protagonist the male gender. This choice was purely subjective and certainly daring because of the costumes and images that were recorded, but my goal was to leave an imprint with a dance style that is not often mentioned because it is considered a niche. "The courage to change" is a hymn to mutual respect and support between human beings, and also a voice of comfort for all the people who have suffered like me who need to feel less alone. In this film I lay bare my body, my soul and my thoughts that are expressed by movements, images and words and I hope that the audience will be able to perceive it too. I wanted to give my university career a respectful closure, dealing with human reflections and at the same time with what as brought me this far: Dance.
The solo piece performed by rabii hadane focusses on the condition of how to make a dance piece in the times of the pandemic. it deals with the issues of freedom,the need to dance and sanitary security. on stage we see choreographed movements that deal in different manners with the current situation, finding that there is a learning curve when it comes to dance and covid-19.
«Dance of the opposites» is a short movie that portraits the natural balance that is always naturally established in the universe. It’s a representation of the freedom we can find in letting go of things we cannot control, and it shows that finding inspiration in nature can lead to freedom, mindfulness and harmony in life.
Opposites create balance, one doesn’t have meaning without the other, like shadow doesn’t exist without light.
I created my Bachelor project parallel to my thesis in fact both have oppositions and human duality as their subject. I analyzed the role of oppositions in the world of dance from a technical and personal point of view and reported the knowledge gained in my project. In the video I dance together with another dancer who has a quality of movement opposite to mine to emphasize the duality and I decided to film in two completely opposite scenarios, in the middle of nature and in an industrial area, using lighting that would accentuate the contrast. Oppositions in performances are elements that avoid monotony and constitute the dynamics of the show.
My Bachelor project is called inbetween. It is a short video based on a quote by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin: “When you dance you should not be looking at your own reflection, you should be looking at the world.” I aim to explore dancers’ relationships with the mirror and the potential effects it has on us. In the video, I am dancing outside, filmed mainly through the reflection of a mirror - creating an illusion of being somewhere in between reality and reflection.
In my Bachelor Project as well as in my Thesis I have dealt with the topic of space. Space is a complex subject and allowed me to research on several levels and from different perspectives. For this, a linking of theory and practice makes sense, because the examination of spatial theories enriches my artistic implementation of the topic. The dance design in turn influences the theoretical knowledge. This interactive connection of knowledge and experience helps me to deal with the topic comprehensively. Putting theory and practice into context is important to me for another reason: it challenges me to move in a time-space where past and present are interconnected. The theories were developed in the past, the dance interpretation is in the present, because the body is in the now.
For the practical work I developed a solo choreography and record it in a film. This represents reality and absurdity of different spaces. The filmic realization takes place in a corridor with doors, which each lead to different rooms. There are four very different rooms. The absurdity is shown in the fact that the rooms that are behind the doors cannot be there in reality. The film also plays with distance, time, light, perception, perspective and movement.
I limited myself to Rudolf Laban's theory of space, William Forsythe's Improvisation Technologies and the description and reflection of my solo choreography.
‘EXHAUSTED’ presents a collection of micro aggressions that the artist has encountered throughout their life. In their attempt to unveil a space of vulnerability, the artist chose to focus on personal lived experience, however they are aware of their very specific socio-political situation as not being the most marginalised. The artwork aims to showcase how life journeys varying from what is considered the norm, are often invalidated or ignored. Furthermore, the artist opens up about their emotions as a way of reflecting upon the consequences such aggressions can cause an individual.
Die Rolle von Kunst und Theater zur teilhabeorientierten Intervention in Bildungskontexten
Methoden:
Wir schaffen gemeinsam mit Studierenden, Schüler:innen und Lehrpersonen theater- und kunstbasierte Formate der kulturellen Teilhabe.
Zur Erreichung dieser Ziele lanciert das Projekt zwei ganztägige Workshops. Vorbereitend werden gemeinsam mit den Studierenden theoretische Konzepte und deren Verbindung zu künstlerischen Formen erprobt, um diese an den Workshops fruchtbar zu machen: Durch Theaterimprovisation können bspw. Erfahrungen stumm gespielt werden, um die darin enthaltenen Unterschiede jeglicher Art hervorzuheben. Daraus entsteht eine fruchtbare Diskussions- und Erfahrungsgrundlage: Zusammenhänge verweben, Handelswege und Biographien abrollen, gesellschaftliche und kolonialhistorische Positionierungen fühlen, Rollenwechsel und Privilegien darstellen, Dependenztheorie und Machtasymmetrien verkörpern, etc.
Zielsetzung:
Es geht um eine sensibilisierende Intervention, welche die Teilnehmenden zur Entwicklung eigener Projekte motiviert. Zwei unterschiedliche Stossrichtungen sind vorgesehen: Zum einen wird die Dichotomie zwischen «wir» und «die Anderen» hinterfragt, um darüber hinausweisende Strategien zu erarbeiten. Zum anderen wird ein Bewusstsein für die Zugangsbedingungen zu Kunst entwickelt und dafür, wie ganz bestimmten Personen und Schichten Kunst verwehrt bleibt. Das Projekt zielt in diesem Sinne auf einen Transfer zwischen Lehre, Theorie, künstlerischen Formen, vermittlerischen Praktiken, institutionellen Anbindungen sowie Interventionen ab.
Schlussfolgerung:
Das Projekt und die Workshops tragen zur Möglichkeit einer erweiterten, interdisziplinären Ausbildung von Studierenden, einer Weiterbildung von Lehrpersonen und zu Sensibilisierungen und Stärkung eigener Anliegen von Jugendlichen in einer postmigrantischen Gesellschaft bei. Wir hoffen durch den Schneeballeffekt nachhaltig auch eine grössere Gruppe Jugendlicher zu erreichen.
"Bereit oder nicht hier komme ich ist eine One-Woman-Show mit Texten von Jane Martin.
Geplant waren Aufführungen in einem ehemaligen Porno-Kino.
Durch Covid-19 verunmöglicht, entstand kurzerhand ein Hörspiel einem Foto-Heft."