Jascha Viehstädt | Raymond Liew Jin Pin

DANCE & GENDER - 1000 KISSES

FORTBILDUNGSREIHE ZEITGENÖSSISCHER TANZ FÜR LEHRER*INNEN

Ever kissed a thousand times? In a play for young a audience, Raymond Liew Jin Pin and Jascha Viehstädt show no mercy and try it out. Somewhere between fun, frustration and above all effort, lips become dry and kissing becomes a completely new thing: conventions, gender and lame prejudices dissolve and draw a rather strange portrait of movement with devoted touching. From South-East Asian invocation to Western hypersexualisation, it's all there, transforming into a jungle of images and movement in front of the audience's eyes.

In this workshop, they share their research results, give a practical insight into how to develope movement from an idea or a topic and how to research creatively and artistically using the body.

Jascha Viehstädt

completed his MA in choreography at the HZT Berlin after studying classical and contemporary dance in Hamburg. He is a founding member of Costa Companie (Berlin / Hamburg) and works regularly with the Düsseldorf choreographer Chikako Kaido (DE / JAP). In his work he creates concentrated and attacking situations that open up both physical and mental spaces; he produces between Hamburg, Berlin, NRW and Malaysia.

www.jaschaviehstaedt.com

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/