Two Extracts: Stones and Bodies

In the organizer's words:

Both pieces are adapted to the location and show a longer excerpt from the respective complete piece.

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1. permeable bodies (approx. 30 minutes)

Permeable bodies are bodies that allow themselves to be influenced by their surroundings, to be touched, to let the outside in.

In Permeable Bodies, an oversized mobilé made of metal rods and granite stones slowly grows together and visualizes the clash between gravity and weightlessness, ruthlessness and tenderness. In it, the stones and metal rods enter into a relationship with each other and come to life in a certain way. The two performers treat them with particular care and attention, but also with respect for the power and possible destruction they could cause. Or is it they themselves who pose the threat? Behind this is the question of a new value of things in a post-anthropocentric world.

A rapprochement between these very different bodies, a search for equilibrium, a becoming permeable.

Project management and concept: Emma Laule

Artistic direction and choreography: Alba De Miguel

Performers: Alba De Miguel and Emma Laule

Music: César Balleyguier

Lighting design: Vito Walter

Set and costume design: Emma Laule

Outside eye: Benjamin Richter, Karoline Aamås

Artistic research: Ana Jordão

Assistance: Miguel Gonzalez Padilla

The project was funded by Neue Künste Ruhr and the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW.

2. AbleBodiesAndStones (approx. 30 minutes)

"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."

But how can I be part of the revolution if I'm too injured to dance? How can I change the world if I can't be present?

I am interested in bodies in the field of tension between fitness and disability, between trained and injured bodies, between adrenaline rush and pain.

#AbleBodiesAndStones is an aerial performance about circus and bodies, with and on hanging, scattered, balancing stones - and on the trapeze. The audience is also challenged and can test their strength and self-confidence while holding the ropes with the stones. At the same time, they can push the artist to her physical limits with improvisation tasks!

Idea, artistic research: Jana Korb

Artistic research: Jana Korb, Stephanie NDuhirahe

Artistic research sessions: Carmen Küster, Flo* Strass, Benjamin Richter, Jennie Zimmermann, Hoppe Hoppinsky

Music: Roman Džačár

Critical Companion: Melmun Bajarchuu

Production: korb + stiefel GbR

Jana Korb - Narrative Circus

Jana Korb is an artist (guest Freie Klasse UdK Berlin), aerial artist and cultural scientist (FU/HU Berlin), and creates artistic theater and narrative circus mainly for public spaces. In her work, she explores themes such as the body, age, vulnerability and others, usually from a queer-feminist perspective. She has created works for Christoph Schlingensief, John Bock, Taylor Mac, Jill Greenhalgh, Fura dels Baus, bankleer, etc. She was artistic director of LuftFest Berlin and a board member of the Federal Association of Theater in Public Space. She lives and works in Saxony-Anhalt, where she is establishing the artistic residency and production venue CircusMühle Kelbra.