Liz Rosenfeld + Rodrigo Garcia Alves: New Techniques I: Residency Showing – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Liz Rosenfeld + Rodrigo Garcia Alves:
New Techniques I: Residency Showing

New Techniques I: Residency Showing
We would like to invite you to the first online showing happening in the frame of the residency program New Techniques at Sophiensæle. On December 17th, Rodrigo Garcia Alves and Liz Rosenfeld will share some of their ongoing creative research around the topic of queer hospice in the form of video scores, followed by a conversation with Mateusz Szymanówka, dance dramaturge at Sophiensæle.
How will we take care of each other as non-blood-related family? What do we require as queer people to ensure that we will be able to provide the end-of-life care that we envision? How can artistic research become a life-long commitment explored in different forms and iterations? During their residency at Sophiensæle Rodrigo Alves Garcia and Liz Rosenfeld met with figures who work with death in both pragmatic and creative ways: a palliative doctor, a death doula, a choir director, a bondage expert and a tattoo healer, among others. Together they deepened the knowledge around dying and queer care, creating choreographic scores, video works and auto-discursive writing dealing with questions of intimacy, asking how queer kin can continue to hold space for each other politically, artistically, architecturally and emotionally as they prepare for their hospice. In their residency, they had the privilege to spend studio time with Colin Self, Maja Zimmermann, Fercha Pombo, Andre Neely, Imogen Heath, Christian Küllmei and Dasnyia Sommer.
With the residency program NEW TECHNIQUES Sophiensæle wants to support dance makers who have not yet benefited from structural support. Until the end of 2021, one choreographer per half-year will participate in the residency for one month with their artistic team. In November/December 2020 Rodrigo Garcia Alves and Liz Rosenfeld will explore questions of queer care; in March 2021 Tiran Willemse Normanson will research the connection between race, gender and melancholia; and in November 2021 Angela Alves will work around the topic of pleasure and visualization. Sophiensæle is among nine Berlin production houses participating in the pilot project Residency Funding Dance of the Berlin's Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
WITH Rodrigo Garcia Alves, Liz Rosenfeld In conversation with Mateusz Szymanówka
The residency program NEW TECHNIQUES is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe as part of the pilot project Residenzförderung Tanz.
Liz Rosenfeld (USA/DE) is a Berlin based artist who works in film/video, performance, and experimental writing practice. Liz explores the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, holes, cruising methodologies, and both past and future histories related to the ways in which memory is queered. Liz's work approaches flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focusing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, approaching questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space. Departing from the personal, Liz's work is rooted in questions that contend with how queer ontologies are rooted in both political and personal variant hypocritical desire(s.) Liz is one of the members of the international film collective nowMomentnow. Liz’s films are represented by Video Data Bank and LUX Moving Image. www.lizrosenfeld.co
Rodrigo Garcia Alves (BR/DE) is a Berlin based choreographer, performance artist and also founder of the artistic platform Studio Disorder. Having studied Theatre Direction in Rio de Janeiro and holding a Masters in Solo Dance Authorship from the University of Arts Berlin, Rodrigo works applying the concept of artistic collage situated in the intersections between autobiographical material, theatre, dance, performance art and different kinds of invisible knowledge from the global south. His pieces were already staged in various European cities and Brazil. He also worked as curator of performing art events in Berlin and provided dramaturgy for assorted dance and theatre artists in Germany and Brazil. http://cargocollective.com/studio_disorder
