Lois Alexander: Yeye | BIPoC-only* | Okt 24 | SOPHIENSÆLE – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Lois Alexander:
BIPoC-only*: Yeye
BIPoC-only*: Yeye
*BiPoC-only: This show is exclusively for people who position themselves as BIPoC. BIPoC is an abbreviation for Black, Indigenous and People of Color, i.e. people affected by racism or anti-Semitism. Including Black, Indigenous, (post-)migrant people as well as Sinti*zze, Rom*nja, Jews, Latino/a/x, East/South Asian, Hawaiian and Pacific Islander. etc. Everyone is invited to the other performances on October 22, 23 + 25.
Yeye pays homage to Yemayá, the goddess of the sea and motherhood in the Yoruba pantheon. In her latest performance work, created for the camera and now adapted to stage, choreographer and performer Lois Alexander explores the afterlife of slavery and the reverberations on our present.
In the novel Beloved, writer Toni Morrison, opens up reflections on love, trauma and memory when a mother is driven to commit the most unspeakable act. Influenced by Morrison’s writing style and drawing on her research into representations of Black mothers in mythology and religion, Lois creates her own language of blending personal narrative, historicity and spirituality. Looking specifically at icons such as the Black Madonna, Lois investigates the processes of syncretization, the blending of different religious views, and unveils their implications. Multi-layered tensions become palpable through the touching of, sensing with, and remembering through different materials, such as textile and sound.
Yeye incorporates these senses into an embodied patchwork to ways of attending to healing, and uses performance to practice strategies of refusal and resistance.Yeye is a deep reckoning of a modern era that is entangled with colonial histories, mothers and the ocean. What are the temporalities of a racialized body, one that is marked by visible and invisible wounds? What can be healing? Yeye explores memory, traces and notions of a motherland, moving through different levels of video, text and performance.
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Die Show dauert 50-60 Minuten. Die Performance nutzt englische Lautsprache. Das Publikum sitzt im Dunkeln. Der Publikumsbereich ist in der letzten Reihe bestuhlt. In den Reihen davor liegen Sitzkissen auf der stufenförmig abfallenden Tribüne. In der ersten Reihe gibt es zwei Rollstuhlplätze und zwei Sitzsackplätze, die je nach Verfügbarkeit reserviert oder im Online-Ticketshop oder an der Abendkasse erworben werden können. Wenn Sie aufgrund von sichtbaren oder unsichtbaren Behinderungen auf einen bestimmten Sitzplatz oder einen entspannteren Einlass angewiesen sind, kommen Sie bitte 20 Minuten vor Vorstellungsbeginn, um unser Early Boarding-Angebot in Anspruch zu nehmen.
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Lois Alexander SOUND Sea Novaa STAGE DESIGN Nina Kay COSTUME DESIGN Sarah Seini DRAMATURGY Jasco Viefhues CINEMATOGRAPHY Diara Sow, Kimani Schumann PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Nick Germeys SOUND, VIDEO Julia Cremers PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Ben Mohai ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Marisa Godoy, Mateusz Szymanówka, das Sophiensaele-Team
A production by Lois Alexander in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. The play and its revival are funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Media partners: RosaMag, taz, die tageszeitung.
Lois Alexander is a choreographer and dancer living and working in Berlin. She graduated from The Juilliard School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance in 2014 and worked in traditional German state theater before creating her own work in the independent free theater scene in Amsterdam and Berlin. Her first solo choreography Neptune has toured Europe through the Aerowaves Network. Lois is inspired by what Tina Campt describes as “textured identities” and uses the embodied nature of dance and performance to articulate an in-between, migratory state from black feminist perspectives.
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