Orfeo

Performance · Premiere by Sasha Amaya

«Orfeo» is Sasha Amaya‘s choreo-operatic work exploring listening, sounding, proximity, power, and loss. Amaya moves from Monteverdi’s 1607 opera based on the ancient Greek myth to contemporary interpretations of its central themes. Using the interface between music and movement, and a re-casting of feminine-read bodies for all roles, Amaya explores what happens if we turn our attention from Orfeo to Euridice in this fabled tale. Balancing choreographic tools, musical fantasias and the relationality of bodies, the work juxtaposes tension and flow, restriction and agency, script and sensation.

24.11. Family Friendly Environment 

With the afternoon performances labelled "Family Friendly Environment - All families welcome", we would like to encourage parents and carers to take part in our stage programme together with their children. Although the performances are not specifically designed for young audiences, we want to create a family-friendly environment. For example, we understand that children may not be able to sit still all the time and that families may wish to leave the performance in between or earlier. Immediately before and after the event, there is a child-friendly area at your disposal with toys and drawing utensils. Unfortunately, we are not yet able to offer childcare.. Admission is free for all accompanied children up to and including the age of 12.

Concept & Choreography: Sasha Amaya | Performance: Sasha Amaya

Supported by IMPACT funding from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and by the Canada Council for the Arts. Co-produced by Tanzfabrik Berlin. Supported by ROXY Birsfelden Initial research supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Lake Studios Berlin, and the Fonds Dezentrale Kulturarbeit from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Sasha Amaya (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and installation artist. Amaya’s works are occupied with form, movement, dance, visual art, collage, text, and architectural surrounds as means to revist the so-called canon of art history. In doing so, she utilizes, rejects, reframes, and repurposes historical narratives and techniques in contemporary art work as part of a broader illumination and reconfiguration of the relationship between politics, aesthetics, and the possible. Shown in both visual art and choreographic contexts, her works are known for their combination of play and precision, her biting revisions of the art historical, and the body as a radical agent of form.

Next date:

• Date Friday, 22/November/2024 19:00 (2 more dates)
• Venue Tanzfabrik Berlin: Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios
• Address Uferstraße 23, 13357 Berlin-Wedding