Radio-Choreography Season 1
Broadcasting live from dance archives in Berlin, Cologne, Tel Aviv and Vienna, 2021-2022.
The first season of Radio-Choreography operated as a radiophonic archive of dance practices that were created by female choreographers during times of migration and border crossing.
As result of a comprehensive research process which included dialogue with contemporary choreographers, archival research, development of sound recording methodologies and compositional strategies, we created a collection of “radiophonic documentations” to dance practices from different times and places; for example: between Beirut and Berlin (2019), Tehran- Vienna (2021), Hamburg-Berlin-Athens (1913), Cottbus-Cologne (1990), Vienna-East-Berlin (1937).
In 2021-2022 the collection of radio-choreographies was broadcasted as a series of 5 radio-performances, presented in Berlin, Cologne, Tel-Aviv and Vienna; each event included a collaboration between a local radio station, a dance institution and an art venue which hosted a Public Listening Event.
Radio-Choreography Season 1
Broadcasting live from dance archives in Berlin, Cologne, Tel Aviv and Vienna, 2021-2022.
The first season of Radio-Choreography operated as a radiophonic dance archive focusing on dance practices that were created by female choreographers during times of migration and border crossing. As result of a comprehensive research process which included dialogue with contemporary choreographers, archival research, development of sound recording methodologies and compositional strategies; we created a collection of “radiophonic documentations” to dance practices from different times and places; for example: between Beirut and Berlin (2019), Tehran- Vienna (2021), Hamburg-Berlin-Athens (1913), Cottbus-Cologne (1990), Vienna-East-Berlin (1937).
In 2021-2022 the collection of radio-choreographies was broadcasted as a series of 5 site-specific “radio-performances”, presented in Berlin, Cologne Tel-Aviv and Vienna; each event included a collaboration between a local radio station, a dance institution and an art venue which hosted a Public Listening Event.
Episode 1. Comings and Goings, Berlin
Performed at The ITI/ Media Library for Dance and Theater, broadcasted live on reboot.fm, Public Listening Event at Tanznacht Festival, July 24. 2021.
The first episode focused on dance works related to the city of Berlin, including sounds from Beirut, voices from Athens and documents from the German Dance Archives Cologne.
Guest: Elena Ferri (team member of the dance documentation and archiving projects of the ITI/ Media Library for Dance and Theater).
Episode 1. Comings and Goings, Berlin
Performed at The ITI/ Media Library for Dance and Theater, broadcasted live on reboot.fm, Public Listening Event at Tanznacht Festival, July 24. 2021.
The first episode focused on dance works related to the city of Berlin, including sounds from Beirut, voices from Athens and documents from the German Dance Archives Cologne. Performed at The ITI/ Media Library for Dance and Theater, broadcasted live on reboot.fm, Public Listening Event in the frame of Tanznacht Festival Berlin.
Guest: Elena Ferri (team member of the dance documentation and archiving projects of the ITI/ Media Library for Dance and Theater).
Episode 2. Closer than it Seems, Tel-Aviv
Performed at The Beit Ariela Dance Archive, broadcasted live on Radio HALAS, Public Listening Event at The Israeli Center for Digital Art, October 9. 2021
The second episode aimed to imagine a Mediterranean dance history. Including radiophonic reenactment of a stone eating choreography originally performed in Tel Aviv 1998, sounds from Beirut and voices from Athens. The show was the opening performance of the Diver Festival for Contemporary Dance.
Guest: Ruth Ziv-Ayal (Israeli choreographer, born in 1944, from the pioneers of the dance-theatre genre in Israel).
Episode 2. Closer than it Seems, Tel-Aviv
Performed at The Beit Ariela Dance Archive, broadcasted live on Radio HALAS, Public Listening Event at The Israeli Center for Digital Art, October 9. 2021
The second episode aimed to imagine a Mediterranean dance history. Including radiophonic reenactment of a stone eating choreography originally performed in Tel Aviv 1998, sounds from Beirut and voices from Athens. The show was the opening performance of the Diver Festival for Contemporary Dance, performed at The Beit Ariela Dance Archive, broadcasted live on Radio HALAS, Public Listening Event presented at The Israeli Center for Digital Art.
Guest: Ruth Ziv-Ayal (Israeli choreographer, born in 1944, from the pioneers of the dance-theatre genre in Israel).
Episode 3. Haunting the Archive, Cologne
Performed at the Dance Museum of the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, broadcasted live on dublab.de, Public Listening Event at GOLD+BETON Gallery, December 3. 2021
Following a research period, on the second episode we returned to the German Dance Archive Cologne, and made it vibrate with unheard voices and invisible bodies from the margin of the archive.
Guest: Christel Dreiling (worked as an archivist at the Cologne dance archive for 25 years).
Episode 3. Haunting the Archive, Cologne
Performed at the Dance Museum of the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, broadcasted live on dublab.de, Public Listening Event at GOLD+BETON Gallery, December 3. 2021
Following a research period, on the second episode we returned to the German Dance Archive Cologne, and made it vibrate with unheard voices and invisible bodies from the margin of the archive. Performed at the Dance Museum of the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, broadcasted live on dublab.de, Public Listening Event took place at GOLD+BETON Gallery.
Guest: Christel Dreiling (worked as an archivist at the Cologne dance archive for 25 years).
Episode 4. For the Time Being, Vienna
Performed at Tanzquartier Wien, broadcasted live on radio Orange 94., Public Listening Event took place at Tonspur _ micro sound museum at MQ, April 2. 2022
The fourth episode weaved a female genealogy of unsettled Viennese choreographers.
Guest: Eva-Maria Schaller (Vieanese choreographer, who reconstructed the dance works of Hanna Berger).
Episode 4. For the Time Being, Vienna
Performed at Tanzquartier Wien, broadcasted live on radio Orange 94., Public Listening Event took place at Tonspur _ micro sound museum at MQ, April 2. 2022
The fourth episode weaved a female genealogy of unsettled Viennese choreographers. Performed at Tanzquartier Wien, broadcasted live on radio Orange 94.0, Public Listening Event took place at Tonspur _ micro sound museum at MQ.
Guest: Eva-Maria Schaller (Vieanese choreographer, who reconstructed the dance works of Hanna Berger).
Season Finale, Into Thin Air, Berlin
Performed at The ITI/ Media Library for Dance, broadcasted live on reboot.fm, presented in the frame of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin, May 28. 2022.
In the season finale episode, presented in the frame of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin, we broadcasted the entire collection of radio choreographies including special guests and live discussions.
Guests: Nora Amin, Rike Flämig, Christine Henniger.
Season Finale, Into Thin Air, Berlin
Performed at The ITI/ Media Library for Dance, broadcasted live on reboot.fm, presented in the frame of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin, May 28. 2022.
In the season finale episode, presented in the frame of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin, we broadcasted the entire collection of radio choreographies including special guests and live discussions. Performed at The ITI/ Media Library for Dance and broadcasted live on reboot.fm.
Guests: Nora Amin, Rike Flämig, Christine Henniger.
Credits:
Artistic Director and performer
Netta Weiser, Composers/Sound artists
Marta Gentilucci, Azadeh Nilchiani, Miriam Schickler, Netta Weiser, Andrei Cucu.
Historical input and archival research Anna Leon, Miriam Althammer, Christine Henniger Dramaturgy Fransien Van der Putt, Anna Leon Performers Dominique Tegho, Sharazad Nazarpur, Tehila Nini Goldstein, Michaela Catranis, Christel Dreiling, Somatic research Mira Hirtz.
In cooperation with the ITI/Media Library for Dance and Theatre Co-production by Tanznacht Berlin, Diver Festival Tel-Aviv. Supported by The Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Akademie der Künste Funded by Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.
Credits:
Artistic Director and performer: Netta Weiser, Historical input and archival research: Anna Leon, Miriam Althammer, Christine Henniger, Dramaturgy: Fransien Van der Putt, Anna Leon, Composers/Sound artists: Marta Gentilucci, Azadeh Nilchiani, Miriam Schickler, Netta Weiser, Andrei Cucu. Performers: Dominique Tegho, Sharazad Nazarpur, Tehila Nini Goldstein, Michaela Catranis, Christel Dreiling, Netta Weiser
Somatic research: Mira Hirtz.
In cooperation with: the ITI/Media Library for Dance and Theatre Co-production by Tanznacht Berlin, Diver Festival Tel-Aviv.
Supported by: The Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Akademie der Künste, Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.