Programme // Tanznacht-Forum / Part 2

BIOGRAPHIES
DESCRIPTION
Eight artists were invited to practice dancing, speaking and sounding, while testing different
frames of improvisation during an extended weekend. They do so starting from the
question of what is moving them - in their bodies, in the space, in their work, in the world -
from microscopic to global observations. In successive solos of movement and language,
the body, charged by the dance, recalls and speaks of this biographically moved place. An
interplay between word and movement is established, which is continually questioning,
where the impulses for dynamical changes and transformation processes can be localized.
The music of Brendan Dougerthy and Martin Hiendl is the connecting element through the
evening, sometimes taking over the stage, sometimes withdrawing into the background.
Oliver Connew moved to Berlin from New Zealand in 2013. His current German visa is
valid until November 2018. He is a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance, majoring
in classical ballet, and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Contemporary Dance from Unitec
University of Technology, NZ. An equally significant component of his dance education was
his participation in the SMASH Berlin experimental performance programmes in 2013 and
2014. In the last year he has worked as a performer for Joshua Rutter, Julian Weber and
Peter Pleyer. For his own work, Oliver is busy investigating contemporary machinations of
global power, and asking What's Dance Got to Do With It? Things That Move Me is the
latest result of this research and will be performed in Berlin in September.
Brendan Dougherty is a Berlin based sound artist and musician. Originally from Philadelphia
he moved to Berlin in 2002. His solo LP, Sensate was released in 2016 on Entr’acte records
and he currently plays drums in Transmit, a side project of Tony Buck (The Necks). Dougherty
is equally known for his work in theatre and performance art, having collaborated with Jeremy
Wade, Liz Santoro Adam Linder, Ian Kaler, and many others. Together with Meg Stuart he
created Violet which has toured internationally since 2011 and was called “a sublime sound
maelstrom… a convulsive beauty” (Les Inrockuptibles). An ongoing collaboration with his
sister, Hannah Dougherty, has resulted in several installation/performances, including;
OURSONGISLONG (2003), The Gardenhouse Project (2005), Himmelfahrtskommando (2010),
Platonic Solids (2013), Passion (2016) and Vernacular Architecture (2017).
www.brendandougherty.com
Lisanne Goodhue is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Berlin since 2011.
Trained in contemporary and classical dance, as well as in visual art in Montreal, Canada
(2010), she has been working with different choreographers in various cities around Europe
and Canada. She is active in the Berlin improvisation dance scene and she regularly
collaborates with artists from different media. Since 2012, her choreographic research
investigates the influence of visual art on the viewer's experience and has been presented
in Europe and Québec, Canada.
*Due to an indisposition, Elpida Orfanidou is replaced by Antonia Steffens.
Martin Hiendl (*1986) is a composer and performer from Berlin, working in performance,
installation and interdisciplinary realms, exploring the performativity of the space-time-body
relationship in music. Important collaborators have been ensembles such as the Zafraan
Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble (NY) or Ensemble KNM Berlin, as well as
artists such as space designer Claudia Doderer and video artist Monica Duncan. His opera
installation PARADISE was premiered at musikprotokoll / steirischer herbst 2016. He's
currently pursuing a doctorate at Columbia University New York with George Lewis and
Georg F. Haas. martinhiendl.com

Renen Itzhaki is a choreographer and theatre maker based in Berlin. He is holding a BA
degree in Dance, Context and Choreography from the Interuniversity Center for Dance (HZT
Berlin). In his works, he mostly reflects on processes of art making, institutional critique and
personal memory. His artistic collaborations include Jeremy Shaw (Venice Biennale), Lia
Rodrigues (Rio de Janiero), deufert&plischke, (Berlin), The Breakfast Club (Berlin) among
others.
Katharina Meves graduated in ‚Contemporary Dance’ at SEAD, Salzburg, DanceWeb-
Scholarship at Impulstanz Vienna in 2009. Working as a performer and dancer in Germany,
Austria and the Netherlands.Since 2007, she is a steady member of Liquid Loft / Chris
Haring, whoms work ‚The Art of Seduction’ has been awarded the Golden Lion at the
Venice Biennale in 2007.She has also been performing in works by Tino Sehgal, Georg
Blaschke, Anna Malunat, Franz Rogowski, Ingo Reulecke, Lubricat Theatre Company,
Andreas Bode, Christoph Winkler, der T.r.a.s.h. Dance Company/Kristel van Issum, a.o.
.Katharina has been starring in Short Films by Martin Kers/Kristel van Issum and by Mara
Mattuschka (‚Burning Palace’ was awarded the Preis des Festivals at the Oberhausener
Filmtage in 2009) and as well in TV productions directed by Anno Saul and by Andreas
Morell.
Antonia Steffens, born 1992 in Bochum, Germany studied contemporary dance in
Cologne before entering SNDO in 2014 under the artistic direction of Bojana Mladenovic. In
her work she explores spectatorship, feminity, painting, history and labor attempting to
draw lines in between contemporary, past, future and illusionary times. Her practices
consist of dancing, martial arts, drawing and writing. She is a member of inability crew and
holds scholarships from lifelongburning and Schurrmann Schimmel van Outeren Stichting.
Peter Pleyer studied at the European Dance Development Centre (EDDC) in Arnhem before
working with Yoshiko Chuma and Mark Tompkins as a dancer and choreographic
assistant. He has lived in Berlin since 2000. From 2007 to 2014, he was Artistic Director of
the Tanztage Berlin and from 2012 to 2014, a member of the Sophiensæle team. His
interest as a choreographer and performer, dramaturge and coach, lies in finding new
methods of integrating dance training, composition and improvisation into choreographic
processes, such as, e.g., in the lecture-performance “Choreographing Books“ or in “Visible
Undercurrent“ (2014). He teaches at various colleges and festivals in Europe and
contributed to establishing a university course in Contemporary Dance in Berlin. With
the field-research to "moving the mirror“ (Warschau 2016) and his solo „Ponderosa Trilogy“
(Tanzhaus NRW 2014) he is a guest artist at ImPulsTanz Wien 2017.
Julian Weber is a choreographer/dancer and visual artist. He studied at HBK Brunswick,
Academy of Arts Vienna, HZT Berlin and the Theaterschool in Amsterdam. He works
intensively on spaces of interaction involving body, material and movement. He
collaborates with artists such as Meg Stuart, Boris Charmatz and Tino Segahl and creates
his own work at the intersection of visual and performance art. With his creation the tourist
he won the Berlin Art Prize 2015. julianweber.berta.me
CREDITS
TANZNACHT-FORUM 2017_unsettled landscape is curated by Silke Bake, Jacopo Lanteri,
Julian Weber | With the support of apap - Performing Europe 2020 | Co-founded by the
Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Berlin Senatsverwaltung Kultur
und Europa. In cooperation with Étape Danse.
Tanzfabrik Berlin-Team:
Artistic management: Ludger Orlok | Production management: Juan Gabriel Harcha |
Organisation: Vincenz Kokot | Communication: Ann-Christin Schwalm | Production
assistance: Jonas Wentritt | Design & photo: AnnA Stein | Technical management: Martin
Pilz.
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TANZNACHT-FORUM takes place for the second time in the interim year of the biennial
TANZNACHT BERLIN in order to discuss current issues of contemporary dance. In August
2018, TANZNACHT BERLIN will happen again, celebrating its 20th birthday around the
working theme of ecology. Artists living in Berlin will be invited to interrogate the
interdependencies and influences between dance/choreography and other artistic disciplines
(especially music/composition), various working practices and dance historical narratives as
well as the environment.