together we wield
Clarissa Sacchelli, Laura Salerno, Letícia Skrycky and Marie-Lena Kaiser
TOWARDS MATURITY IN COLLABORATION AND STAGECRAFT
intersection between choreography and technical work on stage
“A river doesn't stop to be a river because it flows into another river, on the contrary, it becomes itself and other rivers, it becomes stronger. When we confluence, we don't stop being us, we become us and others - we yield. (...) that's the measure.” Nêgo Bispo
“A river doesn't stop to be a river because it flows into another river, on the contrary, it becomes itself and other rivers, it becomes stronger. When we confluence, we don't stop being us, we become us and others - we yield. (...) that's the measure.” Nêgo Bispo
“A river doesn't stop to be a river because it flows into another river, on the contrary, it becomes itself and other rivers, it becomes stronger. When we confluence, we don't stop being us, we become us and others - we yield. (...) that's the measure.” Nêgo Bispo
“A river doesn't stop to be a river because it flows into another river, on the contrary, it becomes itself and other rivers, it becomes stronger. When we confluence, we don't stop being us, we become us and others - we yield. (...) that's the measure.” Nêgo Bispo
LAURA SALERNO (Brazil, 1990) is an artist currently based in Giessen with a practice in research-driven and context-specific projects that take the form of performances and installations. On the search of non-dominant modes of making, thinking and perceiving, her productions have an interest in the creation of contexts and affects, where the work is understood as a possibility for rehearsing worlds and activating relationships. She has also been in collaboration with different projects and artists as a light designer since 2016. Currently enrolled in the Choreography and Performance master’s program at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies, JLU, Giessen.
CLARISSA SACCHELLI (Brazil, 1983) is an artist working in and on dance. She develops her projects moving between choreographic pieces, performances and educational activities whilst also working in collaboration with other artists. During the trajectory of her work, she has been interested in the materiality of the body and its movement while investigating choreography as a social political process. Her last pieces examined archives and histories from feminist and queer perspectives. She holds a MA in Dance (Trinity Laban, UK) and a postgraduate diploma in Semiotics (PUC, BR). For the season 2021-2022, she was an artist in residence at K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg / Kampnagel (Germany).
LETICIA SKRYCKY (Uruguay, 1985) is an artist and lighting designer currently residing in Lisbon, Portugal. Her work focuses on the fields of dance and performance. With lighting design as a starting point, she researches co-creation practices and relational forces that come together on stage, involving both human and non-human matters. She has collaborated with artists such as Tamara Cubas, María Jerez, João Fiadeiro, Carolina Campos, Vera Mantero, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Latifa Laâbissi, Nadia Lauro, Doris Uhlich, among others.
MARIE-LENA KAISER (Germany, 1990) is a choreographer and dancer based in Essen. Her choreographic work is rooted in group processes and explores concepts of encounter and collaboration between dancers, audience, space and music with a improvisational, energetic and playful approach. She develops her artistic ideas in collaboration with dancers, hence the actual encounter, the training space, where practise and the exchange of methods is happening is an important part of her routine. For Kaiser, the training is a space of knowledge production which creats power structure and tackels the frictions between authority and autonomy, the disappointments of broken agreements and the frustrations of one’s own failures.
In 2021, she began a master’s program in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen.