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.
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.