flocks&shoals

PREMIERE SCHNECKE

FINALLY PREMIERE!!!!

02nd May 2015, 20:00 h

DOCK 11
Kastanienallee 79
10435 Berlin

Other shows: 03rd May 2015, 20:00 h

Tickets: 030 – 448 12 22

ticket@dock11-berlin.de

Schnecke (snail) is an interdisciplinary, interactive, queer, biomimetic performance.

Schnecke wants to rethink cultural binarism, categorizations and biological identities.

Schnecke wants to bring to light how bodies are handled, shaped, educated and modified in order to be controlled.

a T3kollektive performance

Artistic Direction / Rosabel Huguet
Cocreation / Eva G. Alonso / Roger Rossell / Rosabel Huguet
Performance / Rosabel Huguet
Light Design, Video and Photography / Roger Rossell
Stage, Sound and Costume Design / Eva G. Alonso

Production Manager & Production office / Hyo Jin Shin / Tangram Projects

Venue / Dock 11, Pankow / Within the Solo Series project “Snail – Lamb – Shark – Rhino”, from the Flocks&Shoals Collective

Funded by the district office Pankow Berlin – Department of Arts and Culture

Thanks to/ Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies of the Humboldt University Berlin, Hoftheater Kreuzberg, Dock11 Berlin & Flocks&Shoals Collective

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FLOCKS & SHOALS NEXT PIECE!!

Queens | the ones who know | the Hosts

Horses | the doubles | the Guests

Bishop | the observer | the Voyeur

Towers | the victim | the Witnesses

ZYGODACTIL – relentless volution

Scenic development from the observance of the unbroken transformation of reality.

As a collective we join our plural ways of perceiving and expressing through a proposal similar to an “exquisite corpse’s”, presenting a sequence of continuous streams of bodies in displacement that gradually reveals a non-linear progression and an unforeseen frame of mind.
The performance is set as a display, where concrete actions are unfolded into several possibilities, enabling multiple perspectives of the same event, in order to consider the unexpected within patterns of behavior and space organization.

This practice relates to the observation of large groups of animals in movement, Cymatics, urban space organization, types of human behavior when individualized and when forming crowds.
The term zygodactyl defines a particular type of bird foot, in which two toes are straightforward and two backward. We refer to this anatomic metaphor to find a rooting position in the space before “diving to catch a prey”.
Inspired by Classical Painting, main axial pictures take place and evolve according to their elastic potential of significance compromising the next shift in a continuous drift of events.

Making use of different characters on stage – the host| the guest | the voyeur| the witness – we reflect about the boundaries and positions within a performance’s structure.
We approach an (in) formal setup where the performers are in control of the coordinates and progress of the show, guest performers are invited to co-operate as doubles within this system, other guests are voyeurs within specific perspectives and some of the witnesses (the audience) can also become victims.
From these conditions and intervention on the set, the different characters rebuild and imprint the scenic space in each gesture, action and imaginary proposals, drawing along the performance a map of a singular territory charged with memories and further possibilities of meaning.

Concept | Co-creation: Antje Lea Schmidt, André Soares, Catarina Miranda, Daniela Schmidtke, Federico Vazzola, Miranda Markgraf, Rosabel Huguet Dueñas

Performers: F&S performers and guests

Support: Dock11 Berlin (Residency Studio)

Some images from our last residency by Roger Rossell

Article in the “Tanz” Magazine

Great article in “Tanz” by Arnd Wesemann about our Collective FLOCKS&SHOALS and one of our members, Catarina Miranda!!!

Workshop for movers by Flocks&Shoals // Berlin

Flocks & Shoals Performance Art Collective

Workshop for movers, from the material of our current performance development:

without me_zygodactyl

The focus of the 3-days workshop is the approach on issues of individual interaction and awareness about what constitutes an individual in the group context and what constitutes a group made of individuals. Another central issue is the exploration of the plain elemetal presence of the body and of the group.

The movement research is based on the observation of natural phenomena and concepts developed from it (eg. swarm intelligence and the concept of space between).

Date and time: 23 – 25 May 2014, Fri – Sun, 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

With: André Soares, Antje Schmidt, Catarina Miranda, Miranda Markgraf

Location: Dojo Kokugikan, Skalitzer Str. 33, 10999 Berlin (U-Bhf. Görlitzer Bahnhof)

Price: 160 euro/130 euro, if before 20. April 2014

Language: English (German, Portuguese and Spanish are possible)

Registration: mail@flocksandshoals.com

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Flocks & Shoals Performance Art Collective

RAM MAN Series by Flocks&Shoals at Dock 11 / Berlin

RAM MAN Series _ 2nd to 5th May / 20.30h / Dock11, Berlin

A WILD SHEEP DANCE by André Soares

THE QUIVER MADE OF FLESH by Catarina Miranda

Presentation of 2 solos conceived by André Soares and Catarina Miranda created from a personal research about the occupation of spaces through processes of transmutation. Event supported by Dock11, Flocks&Shoals, In white Out, Soopa Collective.

A WILD SHEEP DANCE by André Soares

No Animal is dissatisfied … “I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awakehe dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.” (Walt Whitman, in “Song of Myself”)

This solo performance is a eulogy to poetry. The human known body is dissolved by hybrid and zoomorphic bodies and the “unspeakable” takes place over that man’s dance. All categories, all abstractions developed by civilized life may become expendable, insufficient – it simply revels an impersonal dimension of emptiness experienced by him. A vitality emerges, an impersonal presence that relates and fills body with anima nature. He becomes it: the codes are undressed and language gets naked, both uncovered in their poverty towards a world of animality and the uniqueness of things. This wild sheep dance opens up a relationship with the world which is not different from artistic creation, where life and fiction become indistinguishable.

Concept and Performance _ André Soares/ InWhiteOut

Collaboration:

Lucia Albini, Matthew Branham, Catarina Gonçalves, Rosabel Huguet, Moo Kim, Liselotte, Miranda Markgraf, Brit Rodemund and Daniela Schmidtke.

THE QUIVER MADE OF FLESH by Catarina Miranda

Scenic construction from the relation of a space and a body that inhabits it. The mediating place of this zoomorphic transposition, is crossed by movement and air, where an object, a skin, subject of a metamorphosis process is impregnated with life, generating a state of vitality. Process that follows the study about Japanese Folklore and Classic Dance Theatre (Aomori, Buyo and Noh) combining cosmology with gesture vocabulary along with the occupation of “enclosure” spaces, revealed by the relation between light and shadow on stage.

Concept and Performance _ Catarina Miranda/ Music Composition _ Jonathan Uliel Saldanha/ Collaboration: Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, André Soares, Keiko Yamaguchi. Developed and presented within the scope of “Dance Box Program 2013″ (Maizuru/Kobe _ Japan)/ Support: Flocks&Shoals, Torindo/DanceBox, A Sala, Curator’s Lab, N.E.C, Soopa Collective, Dock11

by Heather Schmaedeke

Links:

Flocks&Shoals Performance Art Collective

Catarina Miranda

Inwhiteout / André Soares

Dock 11 Berlin

Premiere “Mikrologie der Krise” by Flocks&Shoals

Flocks & Shoals developed since 2010 performances that deal with the presence of the body, the presence of groups and masses, light choreography, real time construction and uninterrupted cyclic dynamics in space, leading to a change in the perception of the viewer. We have developed approaches and forms of movement that are based on the the idea of swarm movement and collective intelligence.

In MICROLOGY OF CRISIS we examine hidden phenomena of crises, below the surface deteriorating situations, moments of transition from one state to another. Crises develop slowly or quickly, without being noticed before, and then suddenly start to appear. The sudden collapse in existing structures leads to a temporary instability, which opens a space in which everything is possible and nothing is decided. This transition contains always a residual uncertainty within rules and structures. This residual uncertainty unfolds between continuity (persistence / renewal) and discontinuity (break / jump) its effect.

Citation G. Bataille

“Within the asexual organism a there was continuity. When aa and aaa appeared, the continuity was not immediatly done away. Weather it vanished at the beginning or the end of the crisis is unimportant, but there was a moment of suspense. At that moment, that which was not yet aa was continuous with aaa, but the plethora is what initiates threatening this continuity. The plethora is what initiates the glide towards the division of the organism, but it divides at the very moment, the moment of the glide, the critical moment when these two beings about to become seperate any minute are still not yet so. The crisis of seperation springs from the plethora; it is not separation yet, but a state of ambiguity. In the plethora the organism passes from the calm of repose to a state of violent agitation, a turbulent agitation which lays hold of the total being in its continuity. But the violence of agitation which at first takes place within the beings continuity calls forth a violence of seperation from which disconiuity proceeds. Calm returns when the seperation is complete and two distinct beings exist side by side.” (96)

“Reprouction implies the existence of discontinuous beings. … Each beeing is distinct from all others. His birth, his death, the events of his life may have an interest for others, but he alone is directly concerned in them. He is born alone. He dies alone. Between one being and another, there is a gulf, a discontinuity.” (12)

„existence itself is at stake in the tansition from discontinuity to continuity. Only violence can bring everything to a state of flux in this way, only violence and the nameless disquiet bound up with it. We cannot imagine the transition from one state to the another one basically unlike it without picturing the violence done to the being called into existene through discontinuity.“ 17

„We are discontinuous beings, individuals who perish in isolation in the midst of an incomprehensible adventure, but we yearn for our lost continuity.“

A creation of : Antje Lea Schmidt, André Soares, Catarina Miranda, Daniela Schmidtke, Miranda Markgraf, Roger Rossell and Rosabel Huguet.

23. + 24. November at 20h

Hoftheater Kreuzberg

Naunynstr. 63 (in Hof der Naunynritze) 10997 Berlin

Tickets (donation/spende): 6/8€

With the support of :
Tatwerk, Theaterhaus Mitte, Hoftheater, Biotropic and Balleteatro.

Links:

Hoftheater Kreuzberg

Flocks&Shoals site

Tip Berlin

open working session “limit and crisis”

Open working session “Limit and Crisis” within Flock’s choreographic residency in Tatwerk Berlin.
After the first two weeks of jumping in and out the big field of “Limit And Crisis”, we would like to share our process with you. So you are more than invited to have a close look and discuss openly our research material and have a drink or a snack at the buffet with us.

As a collective, we seek to develop collaboration between each member of Flocks and Shoals, based on the research of the theme “Limit and Crisis”.

The process of creation will be based on the recognition and overcoming of limits _ mentally and physically _ understanding the multiple conception of edge towards different social contexts.

There is the interest of putting in dialogue the concepts of “Mara”, Indian term for principle of death and mischief, chain of rebirth and suffering towards processes of “Catharsis” (from the Greek) where an extreme change in emotion occurs through the release of pent-up energy.

Transposing this relation to the collective’s experience in order to connect with the visceral matter and psychic transformation, we intend to draw the morphology of living emotions and, from the permanency of the group, generate a new suspended space on stage. Throw the body into a combat action.

A collaboration of Antje Lea Schmitke, Catarina Miranda, Daniela Schmidtke, Miranda Markgraf, Roger Rossell and Rosabel Huguet.
With the support from Cultural Space Altes Finanzamt (Berlin, Germany), Tatwerk (Berlin, Germany), Balleteatro (Porto, Portugal).

“LIMIT AND CRISIS” – open working session

Friday, 31 August, 18 – 21h
Free Entry!Tatwerk Berlin
Hasenheide 9, 10967 Berlin, Gewerbehof Aufgang 1, 3. OG
T: 030 9562 3754, info@tatwerk-berlin.de
http://www.tatwerk-berlin.de/

http://flocksandshoals.blogspot.de/

Project video:

https://vimeo.com/49519973

LIMIT AND CRISIS Choreographic Residence by Flocks and Shoals

As a collective, we seek to develop collaboration between each member of Flocks and Shoals, based on the research of the theme “Limit and Crisis”.

The process of creation will be based on the recognition and overcoming of limits _ mentally and physically _ understanding the multiple conception of edge towards different social contexts.

Throw the body into a combat action.

A collaboration of Antje Lea Schmitke, Catarina Miranda, Daniela Schmidtke, Miranda Markgraf, Roger Rossell and Rosabel Huguet.

With the support from Cultural Space Altes Finanzamt (Berlin, Germany), Tatwerk (Berlin, Germany), Balleteatro (Porto, Portugal)

Dates of the Choreographic Residence by Flocks and Shoals

AUGUST 20^th to 31^st at Tatwerk/ Berlin, Germany

SEPTEMBER 3^rd to 17^th at Balleteatro/ Porto, Portugal

Mazezam goes to Portugal

We presented the piece Mazezam on last October at Altes Finanzamt, Berlin.

Now we travel with the piece to Portugal, for participate on the 3ºExperimental Balleteatro/ Porto.

JANUARY 2012/ 20th and 21th

MAZEZAM

The repetition is to be persisted in until one is self-capable of sinking earth into water. In the womb seek the ambiguity of the dream-state of ecstatic equilibrium, the moment of reality and the inverse process of existence. thou has not the power to remain here, thou will gain nothing more than wandering.

Performance development from the analysis of intermediate states of perception in the present work of Bardo Thodol – Liberation Through Hearing During The Intermediate State; a description of the path for the body in putrefaction, its post-mortem displacement in a repository space of transposition.

The scenic space is built as a repository of objects and states where, from the inertia of bodies in movement and from the uninterrupted rotation, organic matter, flesh and fluid are transformed into time. From the exhaustive repetition of a gesture and its refraction in space, each phenomenon remains in continuous evolution, during a process of rise and fall.

The sound composition occupies the scenic space, resizing the cosmological site and approaching timbre strategies of concrete music and Japanese Noh Theater.

By Catarina Miranda with Rosabel Huguet and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha.

http://www.balleteatro.pt

The Space Between

THE SPACE BETWEEN consists of Performance Cycles that gather the work of different art researches in the format of public presentations.

These meetings are organised from the invitation to artists, in order to suport and develop their own work in relation to a research about “Performance and Perception”, relating theories of desire, processes of mental association and production of signification, as means to maintain the curiosity and interest of the audience during the progression of a happening, beyond artistic subjects and technics.

In these terms, our main concern about these events lies in the creation of the space between the performance and (its perception by) the public, producing a rich place that enables the multiplicity of perspectives as well as the focus on the consistent intention of communication of concrete and abstract concepts.

These Cycles are organized by Flocks & Shoals in collaboration with Altes Finanzamt.

OCTOBER 14th _ Performance Cycle at Altes Finanzamt/ Berlin/ 8pm

/// MAZEZAM

At the time when the body is sinking away, rain and emanations appear.

The moment before crossing the woods one is half here and half beyond, waiting and watching, completely calm, without breathing, quietly attending the upcoming fall.

Concept by Catarina Miranda

Performance by Catarina Miranda and Rosabel Huguet

Sound Composition by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

Lights by Roger Rossell

Thanks to Rita Sousa, Altes Finanzamt, Flocks & Shoals

www.flocksandshoals.blogspot.com

www.catarina-miranda.blogspot.com

/// HALF-DOZEN BILLION OTHERS

Concept and Performance by André Soares & Rita Mendes

Photography by André Uerba

Stage light by Roger Rossell

Co-production Altes Finanzamt

Thanks to Catarina Miranda and André Uerba

http://inwhiteout.tumblr.com

OCTOBER 15th/ 8pm

/// UNTRACEABLE PATTERNS

Still in progress, this choreographic project was conceived to explore movements and sounds that create the sensation of trace and roots, but,instead, are a migration of themes with a caotic tendency. The set is an instalation of artesanal and thecnological instruments performed alive either by the dancer and the musician. This instalation helps to reinforce the idea of displacement of arts and imaginaries (free migrations). Musically the score deals with very structured material, pre-existent, and the fragility of real time performing. The dancing body mixes animal and machine qualities of movement and flows from composition to improvisation.

Choreography and performance by Né Barros

Composer and musician Gustavo Costa

Texts: Gertrud Stein

Light design Alexandre Vieira

Production: Balleteatro

www.balleteatro.pt

/// DJ AND SOUND CUT UP

by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (Soopa, HHY & The Macumbas), as a drive for and inpired by Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine.

www.soopa.org

Flocks & Shoals perform at MicaMoca Berlin

FLOCKS & SHOALS Art Collective are happy to invite you to be present at the performance FLOCKING/ HERDING/ SHOALING/ SWARMING, as the result of a 3 days workshop about processes of performance creation for a mass, specially concerned with group presence and sound/space development dynamics.

The event will take place on the 26th of June at 7pm, at MicaMoca/Wedding-Berlin. The entrance will cost 5eur.

FLOCKING/ HERDING/SHOALING/SWARMING

Organization: Flocks and Shoals/ MicaMoca

Direction: Catarina Miranda

Co-creation: André Soares, Antje Schmidt, Chiara Picotto, Daniela Scmidtke, Miranda Markgraf, Rosabel Huguet.

Light design by: Roger Rossell

Special thanks to all participants and to Helena Botto, Sara Pereira, MicaMoca’s Team, Altes Finanzamt and Theatrehaus Mitte.

FLOCKS & SHOALS give name to a collective of artists, engaged on the process of constructing (image, sound and sensitive) space in real time.

It consists of dance performance development, regarding the research on group presence, within states of enlighten and darkness; a choreographic movement research, based on the analysis and fiction of animal group displacement’s inherent movement, while a proposal of recognition of the “space between” contexts and production of meaning in relation with an audience.

The intention of establishing a cyclic and uninterrupted dynamic, enables the changing/triggering of perception in the elasticity of spatio-temporal contents, which support the collective moment, generated by a group, where the global happening, is greater than the sum of its parts.

More info at http://flocksandshoals.blogspot.com /// flocksandshoals@gmail.com /// http://www.micamoca.com

More pictures about the work, by Roger Rossell:

Open call / Flocks&Shoals

OPEN CALL// Flocks & Shoals

Flocks & Shoals Art Collective are organizing an open call directed to artists (performers, singers, dancers, actors, visual artists and students) and to all interested people (without necessarily having performance background), in order to participate in a workshop related to processes of performance creation for a mass, specially concerned with group presence and sound/space development dynamics.

We would like to build a substantial mass of people in order to work from the power and potential of a heterogenic group and with the intention to create a moving choir performance presented to an audience.

The event FLOCKING/ HERDING/SHOALING/SWARMING will take place on the 24^th, 25^th and 26^th of June at MicaMoca/Wedding-Berlin _ www.micamoca.org _ and will be directed by Catarina Miranda/Flocks & Shoals Collective.

The first meeting will be held in Theaterhaus Mitte _ http://www.thbm.foerderband.org _ on June 13th, at 7pm, as an open rehearsal format, in order to present the project proposal.

The schedule related to MicaMoca’s meetings will be:

24^{th Friday /June}, from 3pm to 7pm

25^{th/ Saturday/June} , from 11am to 2pm

26^th^{Sunday /June}, from 3pm to 6pm. Performance will start around 7pm

Please send your name, a small biography, and your contact until 12th June to flocksandshoals@gmail.com.

In case of doubt, don’t hesitate to write us.

There is a participation fee of 5eur per person to support costs of materials.

We kindly ask you to re-send this email to people that might be interested.

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,

Catarina

0163-6803770

catarina.a.miranda@gmail.com

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FLOCKS & SHOALS give name to a collective of artists, engaged on the process of constructing (image, sound and sensitive) space in real time.

More info at

http://flocksandshoals.blogspot.com/

http://catarina-miranda.blogspot.com/

Previous work, developed with dance students in Portugal here.