Lucky Trimmer
Just in time for the summer atmosphere, LUCKY TRIMMER is pleased to announce its 23rd edition in the midst of seasonal revelry in the SOPHIENSAELE. With record high submissions a selection was pleasantly agreed upon that brings artists from all around the world to the center of Berlin for our weekend of festivities and delights. Inclusive in the world travel is: LUCKY ice-cream in the sunshade and three separate showings of all seven pieces each holding impeccable timing reaching up to 10 minutes in length. From a humorous backpack trip to short yet poignant narratives - multiple journeys take place, take us with them and leave us with seven different recollections to hold onto. All in a TRIMMING spirit of course - the short and sweet leaves us yearning for more. We needn’t forget: after tasting some special LUCKY ice cream in the courtyard, those who are interested in the deeper anatomic functions of this little organ called tongue should definitely not miss our french kiss. Let the journey begin!
In I know №.Thing the polish performer and choreographer Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska takes us with her and her handy backpack on a quest for an answer. Trekking forth she acknowledges the weight of the past, but continues on her journey looking at all experiences as they are - experiences.
Floating Flowers from Po Cheng Tsai follows this pursuit of the search from a different viewpoint - through symbolic visuals and an art of play Tsai leads us from one state to the next finding inspiration in a sea of floating lanterns.
The text performance, Lara (Kakologie, II. Teil), from Julia Geröcs places us back in real-time using acute body language, gesture and an unforgettable short story of how one takes care of a paraplegic.
In Contigo o si tí from Miguel Pérez García & Don Cañalero we embrace life´s endurance as rhythm and as ritual, forcing the self to maintain - with or without shoes - and bringing the harmonics of music to the center of the stage.
The phrase “with or without” gives way to a primal place and to the next piece, in an exploration of memories and nostalgic images of her Grandmother the Italian dancer and choreographer Francesca Foscarini enamours us with a character that exists before and after death. From family roots to physical demands the body shows and develops its own language - this take place over time and over a short, but telling period of time in the case of LUCKY TRIMMER.
Upon request of the Berlin-based artist Anna Aristarkhova we are asked to show our tongues in the characteristic and cleverly humorous piece Duet for Two Tongues Investigating the parts of the body instead of a body’s specific history, this aspiring LUCKYinquires as to what the role of tongue is and why it has become somehow private in its infamous fame.
To end with a formal farewell, what would it be without a movement piece, besides we’d like to keep you hooked on long-running festival for the next shows in 2016. HOOKED, as it may be, is the last in the line-up bringing the physical intensity from the individual parts back to the whole amplifying how we choreograph boundaries and addictions both in and outside of the theater. In this highly acclaimed piece, the spanish duet Judith Argomaniz & Jaiotz Osa (aka LASALA) sets a new standard of how to witness an act on stage - an even better reason to take a quick journey with seven LUCKYwonders before the theatrical hiatus begins.
An event by Lucky Trimmer e.V. in collaboration with SOPHIENSÆLE. Kindly thanks to our network of private sponsors, volunteers and friends, Vanille Marille, L1 Independent Artists Association of Public Utility and our media partner Berlin Poche und taz.die tageszeitung.
photos © Gabor Dusa, Lengyel Tibor, David Flores Rubio, Paolo Porto, Eliane Rutishauser, Diego Hernandez, Marcus Renner
