When is painting physical or performative? What do materiality, colour and visual effect mean to a dancer?
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Allegoría – Moment in Color and Skin

Laura Heinecke & Franziska Löwe (Potsdam/Berlin)  

19 – 22 Sep 2019Dance / performance

Allegoría – Moment in Color and Skin creates a utopian space in which the dancer Laura Heinecke and the painter Franziska Löwe meet with their very different artistic media. Lines, colour and bodies are in constant interaction - the dance becomes graphic, the painting becomes movement... In their dialogue, they sense both their own work and its range as well as the spectrum of their effects on the other. Where do they speak the same language and what traces do they leave behind? When is painting physical or performative? What do materiality, colour and visual effect mean to a dancer? In this interaction, moving and fixed images are created. Reception and production change perspective, liveliness and fugacity enter into a fragile connection in the ephemeral encounter of both art forms. A painting and dance performance that revolves above all around one thing – art.

The first encounter between Franziska Löwe and Laura Heinecke was in March 2012, when Aylin Crüwell invited both artists to use their fresh Café Dino i Dea for a week before the opening. Franziska Löwe's large-format pictures filled the new premises, and Laura Heinecke developed a 20-minute performance on the theme of the pictures: 'Mother'. Through the shop windows, the audience was able to perceive both arts simultaneously, see connections and be surprised by connections. Since then, the two women have been in constant exchange and this year have intensively dealt with the differences, similarities and connections between the two arts. They state: "We speak - so to speak - the same language".

Afterwards on Fri 20 Sep: Audience discussion moderated by Lydia Müller

Exhibition and sale of pictures in the fabrik Club: The pictures of the artist Franziska Löwe, which were created during the rehearsal process, as well as the pictures of the respective performance, are exhibited in the fabrik Club and can be purchased. If you are interested, please contact the staff in the exhibition room.

 

Laura Heinecke, born 1984 in Potsdam, is a dancer and choreographer. After her training, she initially worked in Freiburg and Brussels. In 2012 she returns to Potsdam, founds her own company and works mainly on interdisciplinary projects, which are shown far beyond Potsdam. In 2015, her work will be awarded the Brandenburg Art Promotion Prize. In addition to her own plays, she also works with choreographers/directors such as Jens-Uwe Sprengel, Verena Hehl and Julie Jaffrenou. Tour dates and further information at: www.lauraheinecke.blogspot.com

Franziska Löwe, born in Berlin in 1977, works as a freelance artist in her Berlin studio in the fields of painting and drawing. She studied at the HFF Konrad Wolf in Babelsberg and at the UdK Berlin. Since graduating from the Film Academy in 2011, she has worked in the fields of film and stage as well as painting. Since 2019, she has been teaching art at Berlin grammar schools. www.franziskaloewe.de

Jo Koppe is a freelance performer and choreographer. In his own works, he is primarily interested in the creation of extra-ordinary spaces of experience and in the poetry of the living body. As a performer he has worked with Josep Caballero García, Keith Hennessy, Lea Martini, Aurora Kellermann and others. Allegoría is, after Martin's neighbour My Funny Valentine and Claudia Kraus' Nachtschatten Funkenflug, the third piece that he dramaturgically accompanies.

Stephanie Scheubeck works internationally as a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and researcher. Her artistic work is mostly transdisciplinary with a focus on collaborative design processes and includes dance and digital performances, film productions and audio-visual installations. Stephanie's field of research is the relationship between synaesthesia, embodiment and dance with the aim of making synaesthesia - the fusion of the senses - known as an example of the diversity of perception in society. In 2017 she completed her Master of Arts in Dance at Bath Spa University (UK) with the highest honours. Stephanie's work is strongly influenced by her own synaesthetic experiences and studies in somatic practices and aims to stimulate kinesthetic empathy and sensory experience.

Joanna Waluszko is a singer, theatre and film composer. She completed opera singing and acting at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy in Poznan. She made her debut as a theatre composer with Arrhythmie (2011) at the Polish Dance Theatre Poznań / Poland (Choir. Thomas Pomersbach). New film and theatre compositions appear in Konferenz der Vögel (play by Sabine Widemann), Von Bienen und Blumen (film by Lola Randl) or Braind Projekt by Kornelia Lech (dancer of the Batsheva Dance Company). As an opera singer she can again be heard in the film productions of the University of Potsdam, which were recorded with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg and performed live. www.waluszko.eu

Jens "Josh" Siewert developed his passion for lighting design early on as a musician. For many years he accompanied the fabrik Company as tour technician and technical director in productions like Petrified Skin, Hopeless Games (Do Teatr/fabrik), Upside Down (Do Teatr), Fallen (Jess Curtis/Physical Entertainment & fabrik Company) or Pandora (fabrik Company). He also conceived various lighting designs for Benno Voorham, Riki Von Falken and others, and for the production FAUNA - not only in dance, but also in theatre productions. In the field of music he is also responsible for the lighting design of the Q3 Ambientfest festival, which has been taking place for several years now, and also occasionally as a lighting technician.

Heather MacCrimmon studied costume design in Canada and worked for dance companies in Toronto and Montreal as well as for film, television and theatre productions. For Laura Heinecke she has designed costumes for dance pieces several times, e.g. for the productions Glücks°grad, Flugmodus, A Millimeter In Light Years (in collaboration with Sandra Hanschitz) and Das kleine Licht bin ich (T-werk). Currently her costume works can also be seen in the current productions of Riki von Falken (Die Architektur eine Linie), Dudendance / fabrik Potsdam (Die Lady schritt zum Schloss hinan) and Kombinat (Lost in Formation).

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Price group D
Advance booking: 16 € / red. 7 € / ViP-Abo, tanzcard 12 €
Evening box office: 17 € / red. 7 € / ViP-Abo, tanzcard 13 € 

On Sun 22 Sep the fabrik Café proposes you croissants, cakes and snacks before and after the matinée.

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Credits

Concept and idea: Laura Heinecke and Franziska Löwe
Dance: Laura Heinecke
Painting: Franziska Löwe
Choreographic accompaniment: Stephanie Scheubeck
Dramaturgical accompaniment: Jo Koppe
Dramaturgical consulting: Anka Mieth
Production assistant: Malte Peter
Music: Joanna Waluszko
Costume: Heather Mac Crimmon
Light: Jens Siewert
Photo: Bernd Gurlt
Production: Laura Heinecke & Company
With the kind support of the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, the City of Potsdam and fabrik Potsdam in frame of the programme Artists in Residence.
Duration: approx. 70 minutes