OPEN
WA~TER
Monthly performing series at SHD, Hamburg
OPEN WA~TER introduces a monthly series at Studio Hammer Deich. Join us every last Saturday of the month as artists from SHD and guests present a mix of try-outs, showings, works in progress, lectures, and improvisation performances.
Colleagues, friends and all enthusiasts are invited to find their way around this raw format, engage in discussions and be inspired by the diverse and excitingly open material.
EVERY LAST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH
18:00 h
Hammer Deich 10
3OG
4,00 € costs contribution + show extra (donation)
Buy Ticket online > or simply drop by
DOUBLE BILL—
tables, chairs, bodies
Instant Composition Performance
> Natascha Golubtsova
> Christos Litsios
Sharp edges, angular shapes, and static structures – the bodies stiffen, the breath becomes shallow. Fleeting bursts of enthusiasm vainly search for refuge in bodies shaped to harbor fear. Creation means conforming, and discipline replaces passion.
In the piece, as in their real lives, the dancers grapple with the question of how to reconcile their living, vulnerable bodies with the vast external structures. Structures that once were created by the mind and today, with the greatest of ease, shape the bodies and subtly guide the spirit.
Dukkha
Solo Butoh Performance
> Reimar Wen Shen
Birth, aging, illness, and death. Buddha recognized that Dukkha, suffering, is a part of existence. There is happiness, joy, and peace; there is hunger, pain, and sorrow; there is greed, anger, and hatred; there is clarity, wisdom, and compassion. How do we live with suffering in this world, within ourselves? How do we not separate inside and outside?
Butoh, a form of Japanese dance theatre that emerged after World War II, is also called the “dance between life and death.” It arises where sensation, form, and imagination meet.
The piece is improvised. The presence of the audience co-creates the performance.
–> drinks and artist talk after the performances
TRYOUT—
Touch ID /ɪd/ – eine Bäckerei mit und ohne Berührung
Linda Lou Dierich-Matzke
In der kulinarischen Performance wird eine neue Haut gebacken und die Frage gestellt: Wieso sind eigentlich immer alle nackt? Wir Kneten Teig, formen ihn zu Gebäck und belegen es mit frischen Berührungen. Dem Publikum wird die Backofentür geöffnet, um dort formbare Masse zu Körperteilchen zu verarbeiten.
Es ist der erste Durchlauf der partizipativen Performance mit Publikum, die am 11.10.2024 im Erotic Art Museum Premiere feiern wird. Sie findet auf Deutsch statt.
–> The performance is in German. Nevertheless, we recommend attending it, as there is haptic and visual material and the audience size makes it possible to cater to individual needs.
Von und mit: Linda Lou Dierich-Matzke (Konzept, Performance, Dramaturgie, Musik, Produktion) und Sylvester Röpcke (Konzept, Performance, Dramaturgie, Bühnenbild, Kostüm) Barbara Schmidt-Rohr (Dramaturgische Beratung), Ekkehard Opitz (Technik, Raum), Rosangela Nunes (Musik), Illustrationen.jetzt (Illustration), Reyhaneh Scharifi (Video-Dokumentation)
Gefördert durch die Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg , Behörde für Kultur und Medien.
SHOWING—Ich sehe was du nicht siehst
Guy Marsan
Ich sehe was du nicht siehst is based on 7 steel plates (actually six, as one is in storage due to construction work at Deichtorplatz) by Franz-Erhardt Walther, which are laid out in the city center. In the summer of 2021, we worked with the plates, their surroundings and the urban space to shoot 6 dance videos. The website and the video results can be found here: www.IchSeheWasDuNichtSiehst.com
With and from Guy Marsan
READING—A POEM TO EVERYONE I FUCKED BEFORE AND ONE FOR MYSELF
Cody Ellis Kluge (they/them)
The poetry collection A POEM TO EVERYONE I FUCKED BEFORE AND ONE FOR MYSELF was created as part of a research project on sexual self-empowerment at Pathos Theater (Munich). It sees itself as a feminist reappraisal of a spectrum of personal experiences, juxtaposing stories of falling in love, trauma and desire. By retrospectively looking back on growing up in a patriarchal society, the question arises as to how an expression of one’s own queer identity can be found if one has not been taught to formulate it. In this sense, it is also meant as a way of saying goodbye to the norms and ideas associated with female socialization.
With and from Cody Ellis Kluge
PERFORMANCE—Moon Playlist /外国的月亮比较圆吗？
Kai Er Eng, Goh Shou Yi and Raymond Liew
Three dancers collect moon songs and open a discussion about whether the moon is rounder on the other side. They bring personal items to the studio and puzzle over what has been absorbed through their bodies. The discussion revolves around their artistic paths, which include dance education, games, cultural differences, and yin-yang energy.
Both Kai Er Eng and Raymond Liew live in Hamburg and were part of the residency program at K3|Tanzplan Hamburg in 22/23 and 18/19.
Kai Er opens a Lollipop Club – a dance/circus apparatus which consists of a hoop on top of a pole. https://kaifishfish.tumblr.com
Raymond is working on his new project called Lotus Fight Club. www.raymondliewjinpin.com
Goh Shou Yi is an artist/visitor from Singapore and currently is a full time dance educator at NanYang Academy of Fine Arts. https://www.gohshouyi.com
GUEST, IMPROVISATION—Ima Koko Watashi
Chikako Kaido, JP/NRW
Ima Koko Watashi is an improvisation dance and music series by Düsseldorf-based choreographer Chikako Kaido (JP/NRW). The series travels to different cities and countries and invites local guest artists to collaborate with some of Kaido’s long-time collaborators.
www.chikakokaido.com
With Chikako Kaido, Antonio Stellar, Kristin Schuster, Raymond Liew Jin Pin, Maria Zimpel, Jascha Viehstädt, Janis Müller and more
#3
27.04.2024, 18h
Studio Hammer Deich
MOVIE—Waterdances/Yes Poems
Maria Zimpel
4,00 + 3,00 € admission fee –> tickets
The leading idea of the film oscillates around the vision of a dancing body as a transmitter and an embodied nature. The camera’s eye shows the non-linear story of the dancing body interacting with the powerful natural forces.
Read more about the film at www.mariazimpel.pl
Supported by NPN – Stepping Out, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative Neustart Kultur, Muzeum Susch/Art Station Foundation PL, CH by Grażyna Kulczyk
In Cooperation with Muzeum Susch, K3 and Kampnagel Hamburg
#2
30.03.2024,
18h
Studio Hammer Deich
TRYOUT—Solotus
Raymond Liew Jin Pin
free admission
A solo tryout of the Lotus Fight Club project. It refers to a sodomy law dating back to the colonial era of the 1980s, which is still in force in Malaysia and provides for corporal punishment in the form of flogging.
#1
24.02.2024, 18h
Studio Hammer Deich
TRYOUT—Combustion, Dance, Sound
Jascha Viehstädt
free admission
As part of the research project “so soft and the sun”, the tryout explores the connections between movement, energy and code in an improvisational setup.
www.jaschaviehstaedt.com
sosoft.jaschaviehstaedt.com
