Montag Modus präsentiert:
Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm: Figuring Age

If any questions remain from the following information, please feel free to contact Hannah Aldinger at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).

Duration

• 60 minutes (of which 45 minutes performance and 15 minutes video projection).
• Open end, with the option to stay a little longer and watch the video a second time

Language

• During the performance: English spoken language
• Video projection: no language

Stage

• The entire space is used for the performance. The audience area is thus part of the stage.
• There are two screens onto which video is projected. There is a distance of about 2-3 metres between the screens and the audience.
• In the video projections, 3 elderly dancers can be seen in their home.

Light

• The lighting situation in the space is rather bright.

Sound

• Atmospheric sounds can be heard during the video projections.

Other effects

• Fog at the beginning of the show

Audience area

• The audience is seated throughout the room.
• There are different seating options (armchair, sofa, bed, chairs, sitting on the floor on a carpet).
• The audience is suggested to change their sitting position during the performance and to move around the room.
• Due to the bright light situation in the room, the audience is physically present and visible.
• People from the audience may be approached directly by the performers and asked to come closer, help them with something, sit with them or move around and possibly be touched. 
• 2 wheelchair places bookable according to availability

Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.

Tickets

• Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
• Via the online ticket shop
• At the box office

You can also find more information about accessibility here.

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION, COSTUME, STAGE DESIGN, VIDEO EDITOR Boglárka Börcsök, Andreas Bolm PERFORMERS IN VIDEO Éva É. Kovács, Irén Preisich, Ágnes Roboz PERFORMANCE Boglárka Börcsök LIGHT, SOUND Andreas Bolm PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Martyna Bezrąk CAMERA Lisa Rave DIRECTOR OF VIDEO PRODUCTION Elisa Calosi CURATION Léna Szirmay-Kalos PRODUCTION MANAGER Magda Garlinska ASSISTANT Beatrice Zanesco TECHNICAL MANAGER Bátor Tóth

Montag Modus: archive of futures is a production by the MMpraxis curatorial platform in collaboration with SOPHIENSÆLE, Radialsystem, Tanzfabrik Berlin and Bergen Kunsthall; funded by the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe and supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR. Figuring Age performance is produced by Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm with the support of Montag Modus, Die Irritierte Stadt Festival of Arts Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, PACT Zollverein Atelier No.63 - Experimental Platform for the Arts, Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste –Residency Program, NEUSTART KULTUR – an initiative for the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of the support program DIS- TANZEN, an Umbrella Association for dance in Germany. Part of the work was developed in the frame of the performance exhibition 20 Dancers for the XX Century by Boris Charmatz/Terrain. Figuring Age video is commissioned by Montag Modus/MMpraxis and founded by Tanzfonds Erbe – an initiative by German Federal Cultural Foundation, La Musue de la Danse, Rennes, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin. Mediapartner: taz.

Special thanks: the title of this work is borrowed from the Anthology: Figuring Age- Women, Bodies, Generations edited by Kathleen Woodward and hereby we would like to express our debt to all the authors of this book. The introduction speech is based on Jacques Derrida’s reflections on ghosts in Ken McMullen’s film Ghost Dance (1983).

Boglárka Börcsök is a Berlin-based choreographer, dancer and performer. She studied dance at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Austria and at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium. As a performer, she has collaborated and worked with choreographers and artists such as Ligia Lewis, Kate McIntosh, Joachim Koester, Tino Sehgal and Eszter Salamon, with whom she has realized several projects in Salamon's acclaimed MONUMENT series.

Andreas Bolm is a Berlin-based filmmaker, artist and producer. He studied at the documentary department of the University of Television and Film in Munich. His films have been screened at numerous internationally renowned festivals, including Festival de Cannes - Cinefondation, Berlinale - Perspektive deutsches Kino, MoMA New York.

Since 2017 Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm have been collaborating in the field of performing arts. Using choreographic methods, they explore how memory and history are expressed in personal gestures and movements, probing the fine line between documentary and fiction.

Montag Modus is an interdisciplinary event series organized by the MMpraxis curatorial platform. The series centers around performance art, choreography and time-based media. Montag Modus is based in Berlin with a program that involves both local as well as artists and cultural workers from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe. Its program is site-specific and has an annual thematic focus. Each edition presents multiple works and offers a one-week on-site residency to the artists. The simultaneous engagement of various spaces allows the works to enter into a temporary dialogue in an exhibition-like situation.