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 was a member of the Canadian dance research lab Le Groupe Dance Lab from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she moved to Berlin, performed in Sasha Waltz‘ Allee der Kosmonauten, and has since collaborated with the company, first as a member of the ensemble and later as a guest artist. From 2000 to 2003, Young was a member of the ensemble at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Internationally, she has danced for choreographers such as Meg Stuart, Constanza Macras, Benoit Lachambre, Emio Grecco, Eszter Salomon, Animal Farm Collective, Grayson Millwood and Nasser Martin-Gousset. Her works include the solo Brand New Bag and OmU. In 2007, Laurie was artist-in-residence at fabrik Potsdam. In 2009, she founded the collective The Plant with Panagiota Kallimanis and Philipe Loureco, which develops site-specific installations. She has also collaborated with filmmakers, set designers, and video artists, among others. Her solo piece Natural Habitat (2011) premiered at the Natural History Museum in Berlin. Her collaborative choreographic project with Janet Cardiff and George Burres Miller, Alter Bahnhof Video Walk, was presented at Documenta (13) in Kassel in 2012. Her works have been on view at Sophiensæle since 2014.
