Deva Schubert / “Mouth to Mouth -A Glitching Choir-” Showing
Date: 6/2(Sun) 16:00-17:00
Venue: Dance Base Yokohama
Deva Schubert, the first international artist in residence at Dance Base Yokohama, will present a showing.
How will this work, originally performed as the opening of Tanztage Berlin 2024, change through collaboration with Japanese dancers?
This is a rare opportunity to see the work of an emerging overseas artist. Please also enjoy the live performance of experimental music designed for this piece. We look forward to welcoming everyone.
◆作品について
The role of public mourning has historically been primarily performed by women. In exchange for compensation, these women emotionally express the grief of others for the deceased. While they are allowed to make other’s emotions public, in everyday life women’s emotions are often trivialized and reduced to the personal.
A glitch refers to the appearance of a technical failure, a disturbance of information in the digital sphere: a distorted image, a stuttering video.In this performative installation, glitches are transferred to body and voice.At the center of the performance is the composition of a soundscape through glitching.Expanding the research on grief, the piece continues a journey to suppressed (female) noise, shifting into a screaming body.
The performers create an ambivalent landscape oscillating between intimacy and wildness. In the twisting of the dancing body, emotions are transformed into a collective distortion. What kind of chorus will emerge from the dissonance?Through collaboration with Japanese dancers in DaBY, the piece will be developed from a duet into a piece that uses more bodies and voices.
◆アーティストからのコメント
This performance is a continuation of my research into lamentation as glitch through the body and voice, which I have been doing since 2022; it was developed from a duet in collaboration with a dancer during a residency at DaBY.
Thanks to the support of Dance Base Yokohama, Goethe-Institut and Kemmler Foundation.
Deva Schubert
◆参加アーティスト
Choreography/Concept: Deva Schubert
Performance: Chihiro Araki, Deva Schubert, Ayano Otaki*, Akane Kuri*, Satoko Higasa (*DaBY dancer in residence)
Composition/Sound Design: Davide Luciani
Dramaturg: Lotta Beckers
◆日時
June 2 (Sunday)
Reception start: 15:45
Concert begins: 16:00- (45-minute performance scheduled)
◆料金
General/1,500~5,000 yen (tax included)
*A new trial, DaBY has introduced a Pay What You Can system (voluntary fee system). For more details, please click here.
◆申込方法
Please make reservations through DaBY’s Peatix page.
https://devaschubert-mouthtomouth.peatix.com
*DaBY Members registration is required to purchase tickets. Please register here to register in advance.
◆会場
Dance Base Yokohama (https://dancebase.yokohama/main2/access)
3F KITANAKA BRICK&WHITE BRICK North, 5-57-2 Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Directly connected to “Yokohama Kitanaka Knot”, Exit 2a, Bashamichi Station, Minatomirai Line
◆お問合せ
Please use the following email address or this form to contact us.
contact [at]dancebase.yokohama
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◆アーティストプロフィール
Deva Schubert
Berlin-based choreographer specializing in vocal music. She studied dance in Salzburg, Kassel, Copenhagen, and HZT Berlin, and art at the Kassel University of the Arts. Her work, which crosses dance, installation, and digital media, addresses issues of intimacy, collectivity, and the synergy of cross-methods. As a dancer and performer, she has participated in festivals such as Venice Biennale, documenta 14, and steirischer herbst with Isabelle Schad, Michael Portnoy, and Julie Favreau. In 2020, he will participate in danceWEB, an educational and exchange program of ImPulsTanz. His work has been shown at the Kunsthalle Zürich, Gessnerallee Zürich, Uppsala Museum of Art, Radialsystem Berlin, and the Transart Festival in Bolzano, among others. In recent years, he has been researching the relationship between AI and culture at the Mosaick Collectiv. His new work GLITCH CHOIR will premiere at Reinbeckhallen Berlin in June 2023 and will open Tanztage Berlin 2024 at the Sophiensaal in 2024.
Chihiro Araki
Dancer and performance artist from Okayama. Lives and works in Berlin. She expresses herself mainly with her voice and body.
She began classical ballet at an early age, studying under Eri Kuroiwa. After graduating from Tokyo Ballet School and Lambert School in England, she has been a member of Norwegian National Contemporary Dance Company / Carte Blanche and German Kassel State Theater / Johannes Wieland Company. In recent years, she has collaborated with choreographers Alban Richard, Jenny Beyer, Helena Vardeman, Meg Stuart, and Deva Schubert, and music artist Pan Daijin.
Davide Luciani
Berlin-based artist, electro-music composer and producer.
His work spans sound installations, electroacoustic music, multimedia installations, and sculpture. His musical research is rooted in the processes of sound sculpture, amplification, and sound pressure as an extension of the opaque concept of musical instruments. Using post-production techniques as performative tools, he creates a roughness that combines texture and irregularity, formality and intuition.
Lotta Paula Mathilda Beckers
Dramaturg and performance maker based in Berlin, studied applied theatre, choreography and dance, and media in Giessen, Copenhagen and Potsdam. She studied applied theater, choreography and dance, and media in Giessen, Copenhagen, and Potsdam, and has long collaborated with Deva Schubert and worked as a dramaturg/co-writer with theater director Noam Brusilovsky and stage and costume designer Magdalena Emmerich. In 2021, their collaborative project “Nicht Sehen” was awarded the Austrian Nestroy Price.
As an individual and in various collaborations, he explores performance, media, and writing as tools for researching emotions and desires as more than personal forces. As a dramaturg, she moves freely between the disciplines of theater, performance, and dance.
◆クレジット
Organized by: Dance Base Yokohama
