Hommage
to Katalin Ladik
15-18 July,
Sophiensaele – Berlin
The Hungarian-Serbian poet and performer Katalin
Ladik is considered the “Yoko Ono of the Balkans” and a pioneer of noise and
performance art in Southeastern Europe: With the “SoundBodyPoetry” of her
radical body art performance UFO Party from 1969, she shook the
artistic scene at the time and established methods of experimental voice work
and physical performance already in the 1970s.
In their first collaboration, German sound dancer Jule Flierl and Slovenian
choreo-vocalist Irena Z. Tomažin celebrate their shared interest in Ladik's
artistic position: a homage that blurs the boundaries between poetry, acting
and experimental voice work, while continuing the two artists' own research
into the physical experience of language and the articulation of different
layers of the voice.
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Irena Z.
Tomažin, Jule Flierl
Light: Gretchen Blegen
Sound: Nicola Ratti
Costume: Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Historical advisory, dramaturgy: Kata Kasznahorkai
Production menegment: Alexandra Wellensiek, Špela Trošt
A production by Irena Z. Tomažin + Jule Flierl
in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE (Berlin), Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana), Charleroi
Danse Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (Brussels), PACT Zollverein
(Essen). Supported by Hauptstadtkultur Fonds.
