Ligia Lewis: Still Not Still and caner teker: karadeniz
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
HAU1, Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin
HAU2, Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin
HAU3, Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin
HAU Hebbel am Ufer presents: Dance Special with Ligia Lewis & caner teker as part of Berlin Art Week 2021
As part of this year's Berlin Art Week, HAU Hebbel am Ufer presents dance performances by two Berliner choreographers.
Full of dark humour and surrealist imagery, Ligia Lewis’ new work Still Not Still evokes with poetic force a unique theatrical language, disrupting any fantasy of historical progress. The choreographic composition for seven performers deals with the centuries-old and ongoing exclusions of black and non-white people from the historical record. Can a history full of bad faith, gaps, and holes, particularly for those that fall outside its purview, be left to the past?
September 16–18, 8:30pm, HAU1
Production: Ligia Lewis / HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Co-production: tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Arsenic – Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Black Box teater (Oslo), Arts Centre Vooruit (Ghent), Gessnerallee (Zürich), Dance International Glasgow / Tramway. Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund (Berlin).
karadeniz by caner teker engages with the theatricality of wedding practices from Turkey as rituals, as both hetero- and homonormative social institutions, and staged events with choreographed sequences and traditional dances from Turkey, such as the Halay or the Zeybek. Queering the figure of the “Köçek”, the androgynous belly dancer who is infamous for their sex work histories, caner teker interweaves these references from a diasporic stance. As a temporary community, we will translate, refashion and rework labour, affinity politics and rituals.
September 17–19, 7pm, HAU3
Production: caner teker / PARASITES PROJECTS. Co-production: tanzhaus nrw, HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste. Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ co-production fund Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
