Orfeo

Orfeo

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.

ca. 60 Minuten

Supported by IMPACT funding from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. 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.Concept & Choreography: Sasha Amaya Performance: Sasha Amaya
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 Uferstudios - Uferstudio 5
• Address Badstraße 41a, 13357 Berlin-Wedding