The programme 23/24 of Sophiensæle starts on 07.12.2023
On 7.12.2023, after urgently needed renovation work, the 2023/2024 season will begin at the Sophiensaele under the new artistic direction of Andrea Niederbuchner and Jens Hillje. We will publish the programme for the opening and the season on 26.10.2023, which is also the day when the pre-sale begins.
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TO ALL EMERGING DANCE ARTISTS BASED IN BERLIN
Every new year, the Tanztage Berlin is not only the city's very first festival, it has also established itself nationally and internationally as an important platform for emerging dance artists since its founding in 1996. The next edition of Tanztage Berlin will once again take place under the artistic direction of Mateusz Szymanówka. The festival is currently planned for 5-20 January 2024. The festival offers emerging dance artists based in Berlin a framework for their new productions and revivals. The programme of the last two editions can be found at: https://tanztage-berlin.sophiensaele.com.
It is compulsory to wear an FFP2 mask. Exceptions are made for visitors who are unable to wear an FFP2 mask for health/physical reasons and for visitors who communicate in sign language.
Attendance is only possible after registration.
As part of the Sophiensæle residency program NEW TECHNIQUES, we invite you to Sophiensaele for a fifth showing: On November 2, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen and her team will give insight into her artistic research on the Hollywood representation of transsexual as the villain. Specifically inspired by movies like Dressed to Kill and Silence of the Lambs, the artist investigates the movement of the film camera and the way it has been used to portray the cross-dressing and the female body through the choreographic lens. The showing will be followed by a discussion with the artist and the writer and dramaturge Maxi Wallenhorst.
A term like autogynaphilia coined by Dr. Ray Blanchard creates a stereotypical image of the transsexual, which underlines the urge to become female as solely tied to sexual arousal. In Hollywood blockbusters the longing always results in murder of the cis-female, a transexual with a knife wearing a long trench coat, sunglasses and a wig opposing a threat to biocentric believes. During the residency, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen and her team – performer Magdalena Mitterhofer, musician Roman Ole, and outside eyes Shade Théret and Maxi Wallenhorst – played with the re-enactmens of scenes from Hollywood blockbusters and cult classics like Andy Warhol’s Women in Revolt starring trans-superstar Holly Woodlawn. Furthermore, they used images from trans-porn magazines from the 70s and 80s like Les Girls and Male Maids (that were helping the community to access hormone treatment outside of the NHS) as movement scores.
With the residency program NEW TECHNIQUES, Sophiensæle aims to support dance creators who have not yet benefited from structural support. Since 2020, one choreographer with an artistic team has participated in the residency for one month per semester. In November/December 2020 Rodrigo Garcia Alves and Liz Rosenfeld explored questions of dying and queer care, in March 2021 tiran dealt with the connection between race, gender and melancholy, in November 2021 Angela Alves gave insights into her artistic research on desire and embodiment, in May 2022 Juan Pablo Cámara researched embodied forms of narcissism and in September 2022, Rita Mazza examined the notion of “translation” in poetry, visual dance and sign language. Sophiensæle is one of nine Berlin production houses participating in the pilot project Residency Support for Dance of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
CASSIE AUGUSTA JØRGENSEN works as a dancer and choreographer. She has perfected her showgirl-ship through working with theatre, art and dance makers. Jørgensen has a trained background in classical and modern dance. She works from the imagination of her inside eye, deep, sweaty and long improv sessions, Christian morals and porn, people that inspire her, her diary, lots of films, other dancers like Valeska Gert along other mime legends, females and of course being a trans girl drawn to tragedy in all its vibrancy. Jørgensen’s desire and goal is to make holes and ambiguous space in history and dance history, to meditate on new narratives and fiction of live performance and other shapes.
With the kind support of Kostümkollektiv.
The residency program NEW TECHNIQUES is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe as part of the pilot project Residenzförderung Tanz.
