choreographing architectures

CHOREOGRAPHING ARCHITECTURES is a choreographic research and creation project undertaken by Sasha Amaya bringing together architects and choreographers to discuss ideas around space, materiality, process, and purpose. Combining her dual background in these disciplines, Amaya enters conversations with architects and dancers: how can these two disciplines exchange with one another?

In her new choreographic study, CHOREOGRAPHING ARCHITECTURES, created and presented at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Amaya takes questions and approaches from architects about space, process, and desire as a starting point for the creation of her new work.

In addition to four performances of the choreographic study, a programme of public events open to the community to explore the interstices of architecture and dance, and the acts of seeing and sensing, offer different pathways into contemplating this subject together.

TO ARTIST SITE

Concept & Curation: Sasha Amaya

RESEARCH TEAM

Architectural Dialogue Partners: Ana Rodriguez Bisbicus, Simon Warne

Participants in Research Day at the DAZ: CHOREOGRAPHY X ARCHITECTURE led by Sasha Amaya and Hosted by the DAZ; Makisig Akin, Judith Hesselman, Laura Holzberg, Katja Knauss, Pia Maier Schriever, Kat Válastur

DAZ Communication: Laura Holzberg and Alesa Muster

Research and Project Assistance: Judith Hesselman

CREATION TEAM

Choreography: Sasha Amaya

Perforamance: Sasha Amaya, Tasha Hess-Neustadt, Emilia Saavedra, Zoé-Afan Strasser

Set Design: Katharina Pia Schütz

Costume: Sasha Amaya and Rike Zöllner

Sound Support: Brian Questa

Studio Training: Jan Burkhardt, Marion Sparber and Alan Fuentes, Sigal Zouk

Outside Eye: Sigal Zouk

Haptic Tour and Audio Description: Gravity

Text: Sasha Amaya

Graphics: curious

Photography: Dieter Hartwig, Miriam Tamayo

Production and Communication: Sasha Amaya, Falk Grever, Elisabeth Leopold

Marketing: Apricot Productions

COMMUNITY PROGRAMME

Curation: Sasha Amaya

Talks and Facilitation: Matthias Mohr, Sabine Chwalisz, Elisabeth Leopold, Sasha Amaya, Simon Warne + Ana Rodriguez Bisbicus

Workshops: Ana Rodriguez Bisbicus, Rachell Bo Clark / Leah Marojevic, Sasha Amaya, Elisabeth Leopold

Funded by National Performance Netz, die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, und NeuStartKultur, and supported by the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum.