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About the performance
Masterpiece by Luisa Fernanda Alfonso
Date
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JUNE 24th
21.00
In collaboration with: Peter Rubel. Costumes by: Isabelle Marie Lange. Production by: HZT Berlin. With special support from: Leila Hekmat, Diego Agulló, Jule Flierl, Stine Janvin, Daniel Ernesto Müller, Shade Thérèt, Estefanía Alvarez Ramirez, Ernesto Cárcamo Cavazos, Anna Philippa Müller, MA SODA, Margie Medlin, Maria Camila Alfonso.
Out
Fernanda Alfonso embodies and turns around the archetypes of the Character Dancer and the Mariachi - characterized for being hyper-dramatic, hypervirtuous and hyper-gendered.
Masterpiece explores both their excesses in the tumult of nostalgic and Latin American associations, hijacking the dance from its legitimacy, legacy and traditions.
How can we create conditions for these archetypes to exist with us today? How to find pleasure in spaces where we no longer know how to position ourselves? What resonates through our simultaneous fascination and irritation?
In collaboration with composer Peter Rubel and an abundance of loudspeakers, Masterpiece deals with the poetics of building, unbuilding, repeating, modulating, interrupting and abandoning dances and songs, which attempt to exist within consonance and dissonance.
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso (Colombia, 1995) studied Limón Technique in NYC, the B.A. in Dance at the Folkwang University in Essen and the M.A. SODA at HZT in Berlin. Her work Masterpiece has been part of Les Urbaines Festival, TanzNRW Festival, The 200th anniversary of the Kunstverein München, and was an opening act for The Düsseldorf Düsterboys.
