Company Christoph Winkler: Speak Boldly - The Julius Eastman Dance Project – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Company Christoph Winkler:
Speak Boldly - The Julius Eastman Dance Project
Speak Boldly - The Julius Eastman Dance Project
As a highly talented musician, composer, singer and dancer Julius Eastmann, who passed away in 1990, was a multi-talent in music history. Despite international success, as an openly gay Afro-American he was still however unable to assert himself in the white dominated art scene. Christoph Winkler translates three pieces by Eastman with international guests into a choreography focusing on the pioneering influences of minimal music in contemporary dance: what inspiration would dance have drawn from Eastman’s works if it had become part of the educational canon?
DEZEMBER 07 | 18.30 | TANZSCOUT with Maren Witte
DEZEMBER 08 | 18.30 | Precarious Disidentifications: Julius Eastman and the Black American Avant-Garde | LECTURE by Thomas F. DeFrantz
duration 2:45h incl. break IDEA AND CONCEPT Christoph Winkler CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Aloaii Tapu, Jahra 'Rager' Wasasala, Karima Amrani, Lois Alexander, Lisa Rykena, Zen Jefferson CO-CHOREOGRAPHY FoR FEMENINE Zen Jefferson MUSIC Zafraan Ensemble & Guests ARRANGEMENT Clemens Hund-Göschel costume design Raki Fernandez PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Laura Biagioni LIGHTDESIGN, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Claes Schwennen STAGEDESIGN Valentina Primavera
A production by Company Christoph Winkler. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa and the Augstein-Stiftung. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
Christoph Winkler is one of Germany's most distinguished and versatile choreographers. His work covers a broad spectrum of formats and ranges from very personal to political themes. Under the umbrella of the “Company Christoph Winkler”, he brings together dancers from all over the world to work together as temporary collectives on a wide range of topics. Since 1996, Winkler has created more than 90 dance pieces as a freelance artist. In 2014, he won the German Theater Prize DER FAUST of the German Stage Association in the category “Best Choreography” with Das Wahre Gesicht. In 2016, DER FAUST was once again awarded to one of his productions, when Aloalii Tapu was named “Best Dancer” for the solo Urban Soul Café. Winkler was also the initiator and curator of The Witch Dance Project and the FanFic Festival. In recent years, he has performed several musically inspired productions such as Ernest Berk - The Complete Expressionist, Julius Eastman - Speak Boldly or We Are Going To Mars with great success. In 2020, Christoph Winkler was awarded a George Tabori award and in May 2022 he received the German Dance Award.