April 2024
Bird Dances
Do you want to sing like a lark, or dance like a crane?
Bird Dances is a three-pronged choreographic work by Kareth Schaffer and Construction Company about migration: of birds and of people. Developed in an intensive community-based process of bird observation and the development of new social dances initially held in the largely rural area of Uecker-Randow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany), Bird Dances unfolds as a series of workshops, a video installation, and a dance performance.
The dance performance Bird Dances features short solos by four dancers whose own biographies intertwine with the stories of four birds: the marsh warbler, the nightingale, the red kite, and vagrant birds, all of whom spend their lives at least partially in Europe…
Choreography and Artistic direction: Kareth Schaffer ┃ Dance: Josephine Findeisen, Dani Brown, Michael Kaddu, Sefa Okutan ┃ Music composition: Jean P’Ark ┃ Stage design: Daniel Lancea ┃ Costume design: Anna Mirkin ┃ Light design: Elliott Cennetoglu ┃ Production management: M.i.C.A. – Movement in Contemporary Art
A project by Kareth Schaffer // Construction Company, supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR. With friendly support from Schloss Bröllin and Kulturlandbüro. Film material from the scene „Die Störche” was created within the frame of the youth project „VogelTanzLabor”, support by Fonds Darstellende Künste im Programm GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS as a part of „Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung” funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.
