_ Open call · Residence 7 – 13 oct
Open Studio / Performance Sharing Sunday, October 13th
Open Studio / Performance Sharing _ is the closing activity of the André Uerba's artistic residency in collaboration with the participants of the study group, where the results of the study carried out during this week in OdP will be shown.
“Undisguised” is the first research for a new project and intertwines choreography and somatic practices. Within the frame of the one-week residency at Observatorio del Placer, my wish is to investigate and create a space for encounters and consensual connections to happen, while being creative, playful and engaging the physical, emotional and erotic body. “Undisguised“ takes gestures of intimacy and dispositives of support (giving & receiving) as an ethical and creative input, and attempts to formulate what are the rituals of gathering of the 21st century.
Working across slow movement, intimacy, presence, holding space, consent, text, conscious touch and singing, I propose to examine the desire or wish of “belonging”. We rehearse intimacy and train the muscles of vulnerability – positioning the focus on the process. The deliberate modulation of speed (slow tempo), serves as a conduit to (co-)regulate the nervous system of both performers and viewers. This intentional pacing creates a space for intimacy where the performers move beyond exhibitionism, fostering a sense of communal presence by sharing, not showing. The choreography and the aesthetics emerge from a conscious cultivation of somatic practices and bodily states.
“Undisguised” explores geographies of affection and how we navigate with and through them. “Undisguised” is part of an intimate series that started with “Fire Starter” (2019), and continued with “Inviting Moments of Stillness“ (2020), “A hole the size of your touch” (2021) and “Æffective Choreography” (2022).
Open Studio / Performance Sharing Sunday, October 13th
Collaboration experience 20€
Or variable collaboration depending on your current situation 10-40€.
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*** We do not want anyone to be left out of the activities due to economic issues, if this is your case, let us know.
Likewise, Observatorio del Placer is a project in formation, if you want to support us with greater collaboration, it will also be welcome.
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André Uerba
André Uerba was born in Lisbon and based in Berlin since 2013. Holds an MA in Arts, Solo/ Dance/ Authorship from HZT Berlin (2015) and develops group projects since 2018. His research is nourished by expanded practices within choreography and bodywork.
Selected work: “Æffective Choreography” (2022) presented at Radialsystem (Berlin), Halle am Berghain (Berlin), Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, English Theater Berlin, Antwerp Queer Arts Festival; “A hole the size of your touch” (2021) presented in the frame of BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts (Lisbon); “Inviting Moments of Stillness” (2021) developed at Radialsystem; “Pool of Emotions” (2019), an event/ gathering on its 5th edition; “Fire Starter” (2019-2020), developed at Flutgraben Berlin; “Burn Time” (2018), presented in Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Slovenia, Indonesia and Taiwan. In 2021 Uerba was part of “Re-Think (Accessibility & Sustainable Mobility)”, a one-year program supported by the Swedish Institute and Norrlandsoperan.
In 2022/2023 he received the Tanzpraxis Grant (Berlin) and in 2023 he was a grant holder of the Pina Bausch Fellowship, having as a cooperation partner choreographer Diana Niepce, within the frame of “Norm”, a training program for disabled and non-disabled artists. From 2012 to 2019 André worked as artistic collaborator, group coordinator and performer with the duo Ana Borralho & João Galante (Atlas, Trigger of Happiness & SexyMF).
Besides creating his own projects, Uerba unfolds his practice into mentoring, dramaturgical support and workshop facilitator within diverse contexts. In 2023 the workshop “Undisguised Matter” was part of Theater Treffen - International Forum at Martin-Gropius-Bau and part of the “Dance and Mediation” program at Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz in Cologne.
André holds a training and certification as a Sexological Bodyworker from the Institute for Somatic Learning, Sexuality and Bodywork (Berlin).
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