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PERFORM! 3rd Annual Performance Festival
Date details
- Date Wednesday, 11/September/2024 15:00 bis 17:00 (4 more dates)
- Venue Neue Nationalgalerie
- Address Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
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S+U Potsdamer Platz Bhf
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Potsdamer Brücke
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Kulturforum
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Philharmonie
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Philharmonie Süd
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Gedenkstätte Dt. Widerstand
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Lützowstr./Potsdamer Str.
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Tiergartenstr.
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Ben-Gurion-Str.
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Varian-Fry-Str./Potsdamer Platz
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S Potsdamer Platz Bhf/Voßstr.
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Hiroshimasteg
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Potsdamer Brücke
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Part of:
PERFORM! 3rd Annual Performance Festival
Yvonne Rainer, Trio A, 1966/2022. Performed at LIVE: The Performa Archive, November 10-12, 2022, at LGDR. A Performa Production.
© Pictured:_Brittany Bailey. Photo Credit_ Maria Baranova. Courtesy of Performa_
On the occasion of Berlin Art Week, the Neue Nationalgalerie is showing for the third year in a row a groundbreaking and historically highly influential performance in its series “PERFORM!”: Yvonne Rainer's TRIO A from 1966 will be performed several times a day in the upper hall from Wednesday, September 11 to Sunday, September 15; admission is free
The performance TRIO A (1966) by US-American artist, choreographer and dancer Yvonne Rainer (born in 1934) is a four-and-a-half to five-minute sequence of individual movements that, with the exception of walking, are never repeated. Although the dance appears effortless, it is difficult to master due to the precise articulation of hands, arms, shoulders, feet and legs. This performance is an emblematic work by Rainer, who transferred the ideas of Minimal Art to dance in the 1960s. Rainer abandoned the aesthetics of classical and modern dance, based on virtuosity, technique and intense physical tension, in favor of a more unadorned physicality and continuity of movement. The supposed ordinariness of the individual movements in TRIO A had a profound influence on the development of postmodern dance. Rainer's TRIO A will be performed at Neue Nationalgalerie by Berlin-based dancers under the direction of the US-American dancer Sara Wookey, who has been collaborating with Rainer for many years.
Start of the Performance: 15:00, 16:00 und 17:00 Uhr
Meeting-Point: Neue Nationalgalerie, upper Hall
Entrance and Participationfee free.Registration not required.In the past two years, the Neue Nationalgalerie has organized the Performance Festival for Berlin Art Week: PERFORM! In 2023, it showed historical positions from Yoko Ono's “Cut Piece” (1964) and contemporary performances, for example by Göksu Kunak. The major performance “Huddle” (1961) by Simone Forti had formed the historical focus of the festival in 2022, accompanied by contemporary contributions by artists like Miles Greenberg.
PERFORM! is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director Neue Nationalgalerie with Lisa Botti, Curator Neue Nationalgalerie and Gregor Quack, Volkswagen Group Fellow, Freunde der Nationalgalerie e.V.
The program is part of the Berlin Art Week.
The performance TRIO A (1966) by US-American artist, choreographer and dancer Yvonne Rainer (born in 1934) is a four-and-a-half to five-minute sequence of individual movements that, with the exception of walking, are never repeated. Although the dance appears effortless, it is difficult to master due to the precise articulation of hands, arms, shoulders, feet and legs. This performance is an emblematic work by Rainer, who transferred the ideas of Minimal Art to dance in the 1960s. Rainer abandoned the aesthetics of classical and modern dance, based on virtuosity, technique and intense physical tension, in favor of a more unadorned physicality and continuity of movement. The supposed ordinariness of the individual movements in TRIO A had a profound influence on the development of postmodern dance. Rainer's TRIO A will be performed at Neue Nationalgalerie by Berlin-based dancers under the direction of the US-American dancer Sara Wookey, who has been collaborating with Rainer for many years.
Start of the Performance: 15:00, 16:00 und 17:00 Uhr
Meeting-Point: Neue Nationalgalerie, upper Hall
Entrance and Participationfee free.Registration not required.In the past two years, the Neue Nationalgalerie has organized the Performance Festival for Berlin Art Week: PERFORM! In 2023, it showed historical positions from Yoko Ono's “Cut Piece” (1964) and contemporary performances, for example by Göksu Kunak. The major performance “Huddle” (1961) by Simone Forti had formed the historical focus of the festival in 2022, accompanied by contemporary contributions by artists like Miles Greenberg.
PERFORM! is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director Neue Nationalgalerie with Lisa Botti, Curator Neue Nationalgalerie and Gregor Quack, Volkswagen Group Fellow, Freunde der Nationalgalerie e.V.
The program is part of the Berlin Art Week.
Meeting point: Neue Nationalgalerie, Obere Halle
Price info: Eintritt und Teilnahme kostenfrei
Price info: Eintritt und Teilnahme kostenfrei
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