Gloria Höckner | Luísa Saraiva | Maria Zimpel | Moritz Frischkorn | Raymond Liew Jin Pin

MEET & GREET HAMBURG CHOREOGRAPHERS

This practical dance course introduces participants to fundamental aspects of contemporary dance and gives them the chance to get to know some choreographers from Hamburg. Moritz Frischkorn, Gloria Höckner as well as the current K3 choreographers in residence Maria Zimpel, Luísa Saraiva and Raymond Liew Jin Pin who will be showing new pieces in Hamburg later this season, will each convey their respective ways of working and artistic focus in a short workshop in one of the course dates.

Open to all | No prior experience required

Registration only at VHS Hamburg: Tel.: 040/427 3 - 12020 Fax:  040/427 3 - 12038 | E-Mail: Nord@vhs-hamburg.de

Gloria Höckner

(they/them) deals with the relationship of the body to technology and power-structures. They explores the principle of hacking and the potential of glitch - disturbances in the system. Gloria's pieces have been performed at festivals such as Performing Arts Festival Berlin, Balance Club / Culture Festival Leipzig, and Out Now! Bremen. After studying Theatre, Film and Media and Performance Studies, Gloria was invited to residencies at Seoul Dance Center, K3 (Limited Edition) and Nave in Santiago de Chile.

As part of a transdisciplinary research process during the residency at K3, which links digital and analogue practices, Gloria appropriates surveillance technologies and systems that use ‘artificial intelligence’ to ‘recognise’ human emotions in order to develop alternative bodies, images and narratives. Their research touches upon questions of self-determination about one‘s own body and the data that is produced by it.

^{(Status: 2018)}

www.gloriahoeckner.net

Luísa Saraiva

has an M.A. in psychology from the University of Porto and a B. A. dance from Folkwang University of Arts. Her work Hochwasser was selected for Danse Élargie Seoul Edition in 2016. In 2017 she was a scholar of the 1-year program for Artistic Individual Development from the MKW of NRW. As a part of her research she collaborated with Lea Letzel in the creation A Concert, with which they won the NRW Kultursekretariat prize Ground Support in 2018.

Her research for the residency focuses primarily on the relationship between movement and language as simultaneous meaning-making processes. There is an interest in reading and interpreting movement through the use of sung, spoken and written language and on the development of a speaking, thinking body. She will take as a departure point Henry Purcell’s work Hail! Bright Cecilia and use it as a physical score to explore a sonic approach to bodily presence.

^{(Status: 2019)}

Maria Zimpel

Maria Zimpel choreographer, dance artist. In her work she is exploring the limits of physically. She is creating her own dance language and modular choreographic structures based on semi-repetitive movement patterns and embodied attention in movement. She is an author of many solo and collaborative projects, shown all around the world. As a dancer she worked with radical artists such as: Rosalind Crisp, Isabelle Schad, Kat Valastur. Studied Dance, Choreography and Context at HZT (Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz in Berlin) at University of the Arts (UdK), and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. in 2009 she was a recipient of DanceWeb Scholarship; in 2016 her choreography noish~ was selected for the European Platform AerowavesTwenty, and Polish Dance Platform in 2017.

During the K3 residency 19/20, Maria combined the research in quantum physics and dance, exploring the idea of dance as an elementary force creating and transforming places. In her choreography Space Gives Place, the notion of place as a dance-based event was explored via dance, music, light and space design.

She is practicing GYROKINESIS^® and teaches this method during the Profi Training at the K3. 

^{(Status: 2019)}

Moritz Frischkorn

works as choreographer and researcher within contemporary performing arts. Since 2016 he circumscribes and analyzes social choreographies of things within the graduate school Performing Citizenship. He extends this research within his project The Great Report which will premiere at Kampnagel, Hamburg in January 2020. He collaborates regularly with a.o. Martin Nachbar, Manon Santkin, Jonas Woltemate and geheimagentur.

^{(Status: 2019)}

Raymond Liew Jin Pin

graduated at the Folkwang University (Essen) with BA/MA in dance and choreography, as well as a Diploma at ASWARA in Malaysia where he learned the multiple traditional dance forms such as Malay,Chinese and Indian dance. As a dancer he worked among others with mit Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, Theater Bremen, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Samir Akika, and Ben J. Riepe. His choreographies were shown at International Contemporary Dance Festival of Panama and d’Motion International Dance Festival in Malaysia.

By reflecting his dance background, Raymond researches what a fusion of dances can be. He questions the encounter of different dance techniques within his body and works, disintegrates these techniques and interweaves them to seek a common base. The aim is to figure out a method to fuse these influences with an equally analytical and intuitive approach.

^{(Status: 2019)}

http://www.raymondliewjinpin.com/