Juan Pablo Cámara:
NEW TECHNIQUES IV: RESIDENCY SHOWING
Attendance is only possible after registration. An artist talk will follow the performance at 20.30.
As part of the Sophiensæle residency program New Techniques, we invite you to Centre français de Berlin (CFB) for a fourth showing: On May 13, Juan Pablo Cámara and his team will give insight into their artistic research on psychoanalysis, corporeality and identity construction. The evening will be followed by a discussion with the artist and Sophiensæle dance dramaturge Mateusz Szymanówka.
During his residency, Juan Pablo Cámara, together with Liina Magnea, researched embodiments that deal with forms of narcissism and its hidden fragility. In exchange with his collaborators Andrey Bogush (objects), Mauro Guz Bejar (sound), Emilio Cordero Checa (light), Juliane König (costume), Zander Porter (video) and the outside eyes Ewa Dziarnowska, Maciek Sado, Maja Zimmerman, Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez and Karol Tyminski, Cámara investigates Murga (an urban dance from Argentina) and musical singing, exploring the possibility of vulnerable connections with an external gaze.
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. 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.
The residency program NEW TECHNIQUES is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe as part of the pilot project Residenzförderung Tanz.
Juan Pablo Cámara is an Argentinean-born, Berlin-based choreographer and performer who graduated from the School for new Dance Development in Amsterdam. Hailing from a country renowned for its psychoanalytical traditions, he harnesses his own (non-traditional) psychoanalytical practice to explore the boundaries between the personal, the fictional, the cultural. Central to his artistic vision is a fascination with artificiality and hyper-theatricality as tools for world-making and identity construction. By employing elements of irony, absurdity, and skepticism, he challenges conventional notions and prompts viewers to critically engage with the processes through which identities are shaped and narratives are formed. He has performed in theatres and museums across Europe, North and South America, and collaborated with artists such as Michele Rizzo, Jefta van Dinther, Adam Linder. He was in residency at Sophiensæle in the frame of the New Techniques residency program 2022.