CHOREOGRAPHING ARCHITECTURES

Premiere November 2022
Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ

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.

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

‘‘This choreographic work spun itself from the ground up... Almost imperceptibly, we slowly build up the sound, the speed of our movement, our verticality until, at the end, we are ‘dancing to music’. Watching material construction is also like this for me: nothing is happening, and then everything is happening, and then all of a sudden we are just living with, or even in, this new structure. I was inspired by that architectural dynamic.’’

• Interview between Sasha Amaya and Elisabeth Leopold in Stream

‘The work combines the materiality of this room with research into the emotional aspects of the space itself. In doing so, Amaya succeeds in creating a performance in which sensuality toward space is an equally important way to relate with how we understand, measure, and exist in it… the performance offers an opportunity to inhabit a place through both the formality and the softness of the movement, where the corporeal presence of the dancers and the audience occupy a critical position towards the architecture.’

• Elisa Frasson for Stream

CHOREOGRAPHING ARCHITECTURES

CONCEPT & CURATION Sasha Amaya

RESEARCH TEAM

ARCHITECTURAL DIALOGUE PROCESS PARTNERS Ana Rodriguez Bisbicus, Simon Warne
PARTICIPANTS AT 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
PERFORMANCE 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 + 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

PERFORMANCES

Premiere
18.11 Friday at 19h

Performances
19.11 Saturday at 14h + 19h
20.11 Sunday at 18h

WORKSHOPS

18.11 FRIDAY

Pre-Premiere Talk: Some Pathways into Watching Dance with Matthias Mohr DE/EN
Post-Show Artist Talk facilitated by Matthias Mohr EN

19.11 SATURDAY AFTERNOON

Pre-Show Writing on Dance Activation Workshop with Elisabeth Leopold + Sasha Amaya DE/EN
Post-Show Artist Talk facilitated by Sabine Chwalisz EN/DE

19.11 SATURDAY EVENING

Haptic Tour EN/DE and Audio Description DE (pick up at 17h30 from meeting point)
Post-Show Artist Talk facilitated by Elisabeth Leopold EN

20.11 SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Drawing for Dancers (and Everybody!): On Sections with Ana Rodriguez Bisbicus DE/EN/ES
Dancing for Architects (and Everybody!): Layers of Attention with Rachell Bo Clark / Leah Marojevic EN

20.11 SUNDAY EVENING

Post-Show Artist Talk with Sasha Amaya + architects Ana Rodriguez Bisbicus and Simon Warne EN

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