Choreography & Collaborations
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New Creation - 2019 -  Playing Dead & Doing Time 

​Death and time are enormous topics and this new project excitedly digs into endings, perception and temporal progress step by step. Through research,  residency, and performance it stays grounded in the body, in humor and in collaboration throughout Playing Dead & Doing Time's various iterations. 

First Phase - Research Residency & Performance - March 29-April 26, 2020 - ada Studio, Berlin 

Performance April 25-26 at 20.30

We measure time with watches and in our bodies. We see it passing in plants. Decay becomes an indicator of time, the movement towards an end. In “Playing Dead & Doing Time”, death is the starting point. Inside the frame of endings, this movement-based performance experience is fascinated by the interconnectedness of death and time. “Playing Dead & Doing Time” explores the curiosity and tension between ‘dead’ and temporal progress by embodying postures of decay, circadian rhythms, ways of ending and Camilla, the nyctinastic plant.
https://ada-studio.jimdofree.com/performances/performance-2020-april/
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Second Phase - Performance Projekt: "Elastic Endings" - Teaching, Development, Community Showing - April 20-May 27, 2020 - Tanzfabrik Berlin 

Open Showing May 27th at 21.00
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In 'Elastic Endings', the end becomes the starting point. Death, the ultimate end, gives us the possibility of perceiving time. We measure it; see it pass in plants or the human body. Here we use it to embody questions of perception and decay. Do we move through time or does it move around us? Time is linear and cyclical, slow and fast. Tick, tock, we gauge it with watches or our bodies. How does the oak tree measure it? Through nature and cosmology, we will explore different viewpoints on passing time. Can we find infinite movement? Time flies or stops, depending on emotional states. Can we manipulate time with our bodies? Using improvisation, group work and material from Victoria’s research, over the 6 weeks participants will knit together a performative frame for the final evening’s public showing.
Register here: https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/1100

More Development & Performance dates coming soon!
2017-2019 - Signs.Sigils - Berlin 
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Weaving movement and body language with humor and pathos, physical symbols become the guide through this dance between understanding and misunderstanding. "Signs.Sigils.ii" is a physical expression of the human desire for connection and the languages we use, we make, or that we break, in order to express ourselves. It began as a solo in 2017, was developed into a duet in 2018 and in Summer 2019 we will go into the studio again to crystalize the duet and develop a small group version. 
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2014 - Arc & Arrow - Seattle, USA

Dance film in collaboration with Brad Curan and live performance with music by Julia Massey & the Five Finger Discount.