double bill:: Walking On Two by Mica Kupfer / Practicing Empathy #3 by Yasmeen Godder

The starting point is simple: at the center is a body that wants to move. The vocabulary of dance expression and reflection on the process is created through construction and deconstruction, through the invention of mechanisms for generating movement, through manipulation and variation, and is inspired by the music.

 

The solo reflects the attempt to interrupt and play with the body's regular physical and imaginary logic in order to find and concretize its poetic capacity.

• By and with: Mica Kupfer
  
• Dramaturgical advice: Menachem Goldenberg
  
• Musical accompaniment: Yaniv Hayoun
  

World premiere at the Kelim Festival 2023 under the artistic direction of Ayala Frenkel and Nataly Zukerman.



Practicing Empathy #3 by Yasmeen Godder

How do we connect to ourselves and to others? Yasmeen Godder has been exploring this fundamental question with her project 'Practicing Empathy' since 2019. So far, she has created three different performative shows in which she explores empathy as a fundamental ability to grasp complex relationships and deal with challenges. The focus is on the act of practicing in a performative setting to discover new ways of opening up and connecting with other people.

 

For the third part of her series, Yasmeen Godder has developed a solo for herself for the first time in her 25-year career. The piece is very physical, an intimate narrative in which she traces her work on the project through the challenges of the pandemic. What is the importance of sensitivity to oneself in the face of restriction, loss of control and isolation? The solo resembles a profound inner discovery: while constantly developing survival mechanisms, her dance unfolds in a dizzying way, recalling her own physical resources and finally finding a place of safety and connection.

• By and with Yasmeen Godder
  

MASH Dance Berlin