Étape dance: Offenes Studio

In the organizer's words:

Étape Danse is a trilateral European residency program that supports three selected new dance productions from France, Germany and Italy each year. This year, fabrik Potsdam is presenting excerpts and works-in-progress by Dalila Belaza, Stefania Tansini and Yotam Peled & Nitzan Moshe in an open studio. A bus shuttle between Berlin and Potsdam is available (with registration - see price info).

UN PEU POUR MON COEUR...
Dalila Belaza (Paris)

Dalila Belaza has long been interested in Algeria and its song and dance heritage. Convinced that dance can be heard in the same way as music, she is interested in the "chorality" of body and voice. In Un peu pour mon cœur..., her aim is to create an experience based on the need to use a common frequency between body, voice and sound.

Dalila Belaza is a choreographer, dancer and storyteller whose work emerges from deep body memories and inner landscapes. After 20 years as a performer and artistic partner in her sister Nacera Belaza's company, she founded hiya compagnie to follow her own path. Her dance, a mystery in motion, attempts to give form to the invisible and create a reinvented human story.

MADELEINE
Stefania Tansini (Turin)

Madeleine is a choreographic project that explores the relationship between places and the human figure. By following a body moving through everyday landscapes and spaces, it develops a sensitivity to what surrounds and absorbs the body, creating connections between seemingly separate boundaries.

Stefania Tansini is one of the most outstanding dancers and choreographers of contemporary Italian dance in recent years. She has received several awards, including the Ubu Prize 2022 for Best Performer under 35. In her works, she intensively explores the concept of the body and its ability to transform itself through the concreteness of matter and the use of the voice.

ONE STRIKE SALVATION
Yotam Peled & Nitzan Moshe (Berlin)

One Strike Salv ation is a contemporary memorial ceremony with a mixture of dance, text and song. Performed by two migrant artists, it explores the tension between belonging and displacement, nostalgia and identity. Through the use of objects charged with collective memory, it deconstructs tradition, heroism and the role of the body in mourning and celebration.

Yotam Peled, born in 1989, is a choreographer and performer with a background in visual arts, athletics and capoeira. He started dancing at the age of 21 and later studied contemporary circus. He has lived in Berlin since 2015, works internationally as a freelance artist and leads the ensemble Yotam Peled & the Free Radicals. Nitzan Moshe, born in 1994, began her dance training at a young age and completed a one-year internship with the Bat-Sheva Ensemble. She worked in the Vertigo Dance Company and as a freelance artist with dancers such as Roy Assaf, Sita Ostheimer and the Company Idem. In 2019 she moved to Berlin and started her collaboration with Yotam Peled, first as a dancer and more recently as a co-choreographer.