Staged by DISAPPEARING BERLIN.

Supermarkt an der Jannowitzbrücke
Holzmarktstrasse 66, 10179 Berlin

For DISAPPEARING BERLIN, choreographer Alex Baczynski-Jenkins presents The tremble, the first episode of the work The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together (2017), which unfolds over four episodes and is a choreographic mediation on the relationships between touch, intimacy, loss and collectivity. This iteration of The tremble is presented at a former, long been vacant supermarket at Jannowitzbrücke. With demolition approaching by the end of the year it is just one of many properties that have been giving way to an architecturally generic present and future of the extending Media Spree project.

Baczynski-Jenkins’ choreographies evoke an ephemeral sense of relationality and are suspended between the materiality and fugitivity of an intimate gesture. In The tremble, Baczynski-Jenkins develops vocabularies that range from micro-gestures to poems, social dances and their abstractions. The dancers’ fragmented, yet interconnected movements open up a dialogue across queer politics of desire and intimacy as well as the space they are temporarily situated in.

CREDITS

This iteration of The tremble is performed by Jia-Yu Corti, Agata Grabowska, Thomias Radin, Thelma Sharma

It is part of Baczynski-Jenkins’ new ongoing project Unending love or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless, his first German co-production with institutions based in the federal states Berlin (DISAPPEARING BERLIN / Schinkel Pavillon and Klosterruine) and Nordrhein-Westfalen (Kunstverein Cologne and Kunstverein Düsseldorf) that includes developing a new choreography, research, writing and pedagogy.

The tremble is part of The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together (2017), originally produced and commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London

Production and tour manager: Andrea Rodrigo

Artistic advisor and sound mixed live by Krzysztof Baginski

Sound research in collaboration with Jayson Patterson

Poem “The Seagulls” by Ezra Green

The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together was developed in collaboration with and performed by Magdalena Chowaniec, Jia-Yu Corti, Kobe Darko, Jonathan Gonzalez, Samuel Kennedy, Matthew Morris, Jayson Patterson, Owen Ridley-DeMonick & Thelma Sharma

Production support during the development of the project: Jayson Patterson

With thanks to Krzysztof Bagiński, Ellen Grieg, Eliel Jones, Enad Marouf, Polly Staple, Aaron Cezar

Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

DISAPPEARING BERLIN is a performance and music program, produced by Schinkel Pavillon

Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes
(German Federal Cultural Foundation)

With thanks to Bechstein for supporting DISAPPEARING BERLIN with the venue.