double bill:: vignettes + continuing containing

Ruby Frances Jones / Raz Mantell, Susanna Ylikoski

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  vignettes

• continuing containing

vignettes - Ruby Frances Jones

 

a veiled specter folds

            shifts form

                        a conduit for the ineffable

seeking

            and

            unraveling

being.

 

 

vignettes: noun

a brief evocative description, account, or episode

 

„Vignettes“ is a procession of punctuated images, cropped and pasted. Each image frames a character, whose posture is born of feeling or memory. The face each character wears asks its gesture-body to be heard. This is a solo performance exploring character-based improvisation, gesture, mime, and masked theater. Each of the faces worn during the solo has been hand sculpted by the performer themselves, and serves to enhance their physical form and/or deformity, highlight character beats, and invoke meaning. Guided by this cast of masked characters, the audience may be invited to consider themes of Death, Transmission, Spectacle, Birth, Irony, Ambition, and Survival.

 

Masks, choreography, performance: Ruby Frances Jones

Sound: Benjamin Sanchez Watson, Ruby Frances Jones

Photo: Isaac Levi

 

 

continuing containing – Raz Mantell, Susanna Ylikoski

 

Welcome to 'continuing containing, ' where we explore the transformative power of collaboration. We ask: What is collaboration? What forms can it take? And what is made possible in and through collaboration? We explore the means and spaces in which an exchange occurs and how this exchange is a creative act that can reshape our understanding of the world.

 

We want to challenge our relation to hierarchies: Ideas of beginning and end, initiation and reaction, and creation and execution are broken up and transformed. In this way, space is created for a view of living together - a network, a forest, a society, a collaboration. In this, everyone and everything contributes to a force, to something that is to become.

 

In this way, we perceive collaboration as a political and creative act. It becomes a basis for the perception and shaping of being together and the person's relationship with nature.

 

By: Raz Mantell, Susanna Ylikoski

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 07/September/2024 19:00
• Venue Dock 11 - Dock Art Theater
• Address Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg