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DANCE PLATFORM

19+20+22.01 / 19:30

MART KANGRO & CHRISTINA CIUPKE
´longer than expected´
 /PREMIERE!/

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Endurance can be addictive.
The fascination to exceed one’s own limits.
The euphoric illusion that one’s limits can be extended infinitely.
The inner emptiness that emerges when one obsesses over a singular goal.
All thoughts and perception melt into a highly concentrated target, denying a critical distance for hesitation and reflection.

A point is reached when a new perception of time emerges:
Attaining the goal loses its meaning: it is endurance itself that has become the goal.

Mart Kangro and Christina Ciupke work with structures of repetition, endurance and control, and explore the role these structures play in the process of learning. Their work questions the glorification of competition, endurance and discipline, whether in the individual or as a society.

choreography, dance: Christina Ciupke, Mart Kangro
artistic collaboration: Frauke Havemann
project leader: Susanne Beyer
co-producers: Christina Ciupke, hau 1-3 berlin /GER/, Kanuti Gildi SAAL
supporters: senatsverwaltung für wissenschaft, forschung und kultur berlin
thanks to: pact zollverein essen
photos by: Martin Sookael
duration: 50´
ticket: 70/120´
more info: www.christinaciupke.com

*On Saturday, January 20, the performance will be followed with the talk with Mart Kangro and Christina Ciupke (in English).

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Mart Kangro, choreographer, performer, graduated from the dance department of Tallinn Pedagogical University in 1996. For some years he was member of the ballet company of Estonian National Opera where he created a short piece ´Many Things in Life Remain Unseen Anyway´ in May 2001. His first solo-work ´Start. Based on a True Story´ was premiered in 2001 in Von Krahl Theatre, Tallinn. In 2002, it was selected by Aerowaves network to be presented at The Place Theatre in London. In 2002, Mart was invited to take part as a choreographer in Thomas Lehmen’s ´Schreibstück´, which premiered at the Tanz im August festival in Berlin. His collaboration with Thomas Lehmen continued in 2004, when he participated in project called ´Functionen´. One year earlier his second solo ´Mart on Stage´ had premiered in Valancienne, France. This work got also nominated as the best dance performance in 2003 in Estonia. He was a leading member of music and dance improvisation group PROIMPRO. His most recent work, a trio with Krõõt Juurak and Manuel Pelmus ´Out of Functions´ premiered in Tallinn, in January 2006. As a dancer, he has collaborated with Mai Murdmaa, Charles Linehan, Xavier Le Roy, Thomas Lehmen, Susanne Berggren and others. Until now his works have been presented in France, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, USA, Switzerland, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Belgium and Estonia.

Christina Ciupke has been living and working as a choreographer and dancer in Berlin since 1989. Her preoccupation with the body and the movement takes place on the intersection of dance and the visual arts. She has choreographed solos and duets. She collaborated with photographer Gisela Dilchert for several years. 2003 collaboration was initiated with French choreographer Myriam Gourfink during a residency at centre national de la danse paris. The project was continued and performed in 2005 (at cnd) in cooperation with composer Kasper Toeplitz. Further in 2005 she will start collaboration on a project based on the topic ´instruction´ with choreographer/dancer Nik Haffner. She was artist-in-residence at centre for art and media Karlsruhe (zkm). With her productions she’s been invited among others to the Aerowaves festival in London, rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, dance plattform Germany, Leipzig, festival international de teatro del mercosur in Cordoba/Argent., dance biennale Tokyo.
Her projects: ´raum wird haut´ (1996/1997), ´zeitränder´ (1998), ´reisende´ (1999), ´körper, terrain´ (2000), ´rissumriss´ (2001), ´bildbewegung 001/ 002´ (2002) ´bildbewegung 003´ (2003), ´souvenir´ (2004), ´it can all begin again/kill the king´ (2005).
Her approach to work - My work with body and movement entails an intensive study of perception and it’s mechanisms. In this larger framework, moments of irritation are studied, which cause a shift in the levels of perception, blurring the boundary between sensual experience and subjective expectations. It is about attempting to touch a liminal place of expectancy where what is known bleeds out into something unknown. The work methods aim at using the body to speak of its means. Repetition, reduction and a slowing of movement, create a unique, specific temporality in the moment of the performance.

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