4-day-research TENSION STATES: AMPLIFICATIONS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION with Maxine Doyle at b12
MAXINE DOYLE associated director and choreographer of punchdrunk
when: 4th – 7th july 2017 / 6:00pm – 10:00pm
where: Berlin, Germany
TENSION STATES: AMPLIFICATIONS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
how, through dance and theatre, do we amplify the human condition? how can we unlock an individual language of tension and rhythm, to tell stories, reveal characters and charge atmospheres?
come and dive into extended improvisation scores, tripping out into distinctive and dramatic worlds – always in the pursuit of an articulate movement language.
BIOGRAPHY
maxine is an independent choreographer and director. she is also associate director and choreographer for punchdrunk, with whom she co-directed the multi-award winning “sleep no more” (london, boston, new york, shanghai), “the drowned man”, “the house where winter lives”, “the firebird ball”, “faust”, “masque of the red death”, “tunnel 228”, “the duchess of malfi” (an operatic collaboration with english national opera and thorsten rasch) and “the yellow wallpaper”.
maxine has an ma in choreography from the laban centre and is a recipient of the bonnie bird choreography award. she was artistic director of first person dance company from 1996 – 2003 touring works, such as “deja deux”, “in the face of a stranger”, “plastic chill” and “it’s only a gameshow”. in 2006, she was a place prize semi-finalist with “forest”.
her work for theatre includes: evening at the talk house (national theatre); electra (old vic); the changeling (young vic); hamlet (young vic); the children’s hour (the west end); timon of athens (the globe) and every good boy deserves favour (national theatre). opera includes: faust (baden baden) and the cunning little vixen (glyndebourne). work for brands includes: luis vuitton and selfridges.
maxine’s most recent dance theatre creation for the stage “after lethe” premiered at staastheater kassel in may, 2016. maxine is also a principle artist at springboard danse montréal, where she created “hubris” (2015) and “electric sheep (2016). future projects include a new creation with strut dance, perth, australia for 2018.
maxine’s international workshop series “tension states: amplifications of the human condition” will begin january, 2017. maxine will also be leading a series of performance workshops at punchdrunk’s “enrichment village” throughout 2017.
for more information and further workshops please visit: www.b12.space
in order to apply send us an email at researchordie[at]b12.space with the workshops you would like to take and a short bio. you can also provide us with a video link and a short paragraph about your motivation for each workshop. no must. once received, we’ll follow up with a personalized email confirmation.
tags: europe, germany