19.00 Doors open19.30 Weight of Us20.00 small break20.15 Serious Fun20.45 Drinks and exchange

SENECA Intensiv: Georg Knorr Str. 4, 12681 Berlin / Haus 10 // S7 Marzahn

Weight of Us

at 19.30

This is about us. You and me.About who you are to me. How.How you influence me; how I am, what I do,how I move in life.
I move in life.On my own with you.I can't change that.
It's so many of you.I move in lifeon my ownwith all of you.I can't change that.
"Weight of Us" deals with the topics of Community and Connection. By embodying human connections shaped in space, it wishes to visualize we live and connect in the body. Departing from the body and the space as our home, it wishes to expand its purpose to include our awareness, availability and vulnerability into our perception of identity and Community. In times when this is intensely needed, it suggests that we understand that we are in this together.
Choreography: Breeanne SaxtonAssistance choreography: Iliana KalapotharakouPerformers: Anna Büssow, Sara Castro, Arianna Giusti, Jaina Hirai, Sara Kibler, Anna Maier, Camilla Moro, Arina Naumova, Valeryia Nestsiarchuk, Alice Priori

Serious Fun

at 20.15

Welcome to 0, you have drawn The Fool. "Serious Fun" is an inquiry into the contemporary performance artist's role in our crisis-driven society. What lessons does the jester have to teach us about coping and collective healing in a hostile late-capitalocene world? Stand up comedy and story-telling offer an interactive performative container in which the director and performer use personal anecdotes to support a larger inquiry into states of failure, break-down, crisis, collapse and confusion. Using the wisdom of clowns, comics, and performative mischief makers, serious fun allows us to make a loving parody of our own precariousness. When we live in a year that sounds like it's from a science fiction novel, what can the performer offer as a respite from the digital and analog trends that drown us in constant media and advertising stimulus? Part art critique, part musical comedy, part contemporary dance performance, this solo is self-referential, episodic and fast-paced; it is a product of the attention economy. At the end we ask, is it possible to slow anything down?
From and with: Breeanne Saxton