neworks – Aesthetics of Access #3: Microphone Controller

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  neworks – Aesthetics of Access #3: Microphone Controller

• neworks – Aesthetics of Access #3: Microphone Controller

Simultaneously, a dance solo and sensory concert.Songs, Signs (ASL, DGS), speeches, moans, thrashes, come together to create a sonic, vibrating, visual concert experience. A celebration of Voice. Seen Voice. Heard Voice. Felt Voice. Homaging the likes of Prince, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. Synthesizing the iconic idiosyncrasies of stadium-level performers.
Working with a team of CODA, Deaf, hearing, and hard of hearing artists, Lukas is exploring ‘accessibility’ through simultaneity and reference. Each scene of this performance is saturated with visual, vibrational and sonic stimulation, often engaging two senses simultaneously. Lukas’s choreographies often propose sound vibration and movement simultaneously, inspired by ‘SIM-COM’ (simultaneous communication): the act of Signing what you are speaking, at the exact same time; a tool often used by CODAs when having to communicate to audiences of Deaf and hearing people at the same time.
“neworks - Aesthetics of Access" is a performance series that focuses on works where accessibility for disabled, chronically ill and/or deaf audience members is an integral part of the artistic concept. As defined by Diversity Arts Culture, “the term ‘Aesthetics of Access’ describes a practice in the performing arts: accessibility is built into the art production from the beginning and with an artistic claim and not added afterwards.” neworks 2024 includes three works from Berlin based artists that have found their own personal perspective on how to allow means of accessibility to inspire and inform their artistic processes.

The research for Microphone Controller is supported by the Tanzpraxis 2022/23 scholarship of the Berlin Culture Senate, Research funding by Goethe Institute, dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival, SummerWorks Festival Toronto, and Tanzhaus Zürich.Choreography & Performance: Lukas MalkowskiAccess Dramaturgy, DGS Coaching: Paulina GüllüSurtitles & Visualization: Julia CremersASL Coaching: Gaitrie Persaud-Killings            Dramaturgy: Antonia GerschMusic Production & Vocal Coaching: Roland Meyer de Voltaire       Videography & Photography: Drew Berry Lighting tdesign: Robert PrideauxOriginal Lighting Design: Chris Malkowski
Curators of the series: Liisi Hint und Maria Ladopoulos

Next date:

• Date Friday, 20/September/2024 19:00 (2 more dates)
• Venue Uferstudios - Uferstudio 7
• Address Uferstraße 23, 13357 Berlin-Wedding