Laurie Young: Korinna und Jörg – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Laurie Young: Korinna und Jörg
“Watching dance performances is our calling“, say Korinna and Jörg. Since the fall of the Berlin wall they have seen over 4000 dance performances in Berlin and the entire scene knows them. Where does this passion for dance come from? The documentary performance Korinna and Jörgobserves the last 25 years of the Berlin dance scene through their eyes. Thanks to the intimate privilege of being able to peer into their private archives of notes, interviews and memories, new life is breathed into fragments of dance performances found in these treasure troves.
cONCEPT Laurie Young in cooperation with Korinna Nawrotzky, Jörg Schmieder VIDEOS Andrea Keiz cOMPOSITION Johannes Malfatti Costume Claudia Hill Costume assistance Eryka Jura LIgHT DESIGN Sandra Blatterer Dance,development Dieter Baumann, Joséphine Evrard, Martin Hansen, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Chris Scherer stage design Heike Schuppelius stage design ASSISTANCE Lena Loy COMPANY MANAGEMENT M.i.C.A. – Movement in Contemporary Art (Cilgia Gadola, Raisa Kröger) Titling Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. media partner: taz.dietageszeitung
© Andrea Keiz
Laurie Young is a Berlin-based Canadian dance artist whose work embraces an expanded notion of choreography as a way of observing organisational patterns between bodies, framing and revealing hierarchies. Her practice is informed increasingly by the politics of the diasporic body, its archival liveliness and its choreography. Named Visiting Dance Artist of the National Arts Centre and a multiple recipient of the Volkswagen Foundation’s Art and Science in Motion fellowship, her work has been presented at Sophiensæle since 2014. She is co-initiator of FreelanceDanceEnsemble Berlin and a board member of Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin.
