WILD ACCESS
(2021 - ongoing) is an interdisciplinary performance company that since 2021 has created site-specific productions for public spaces. Using dance, light, sound and storytelling, their immersive performances bring audiences together to experience urban locations through fictional landscapes and sensory worlds.
http://www.wildaccess.site/
GLADE
Soundance festival DOCK11 - June 2024In their new work “GLADE”, interdisciplinary Performance-Company WILD ACCESS brings their site-specific practice, interweaving dance, lights, sound and text, to the stage. Their starting point is a “glade”: a clearing in a forest. From this grassy space that opens between the trees, they create an immersive terrain populated by hybrid creatures. In their search for the wild outside, they call for the wildness within.
Artistic direction, choreography: Beatrix Joyce
Dance, co-creation: Savina Casarin, michela filzi, Imola Nagy, Susanna Ylikoski
Sound: Jethro Cooke
Drums: Jake Long
Lights: Lena Gätjens
Video: Vincent Jondeau
Voice coach: Rupert Enticknap
2024 © WILD ACCESS - photo by Alicja Hoppel
CLINCH
Bärenzwinger, in the frame of “In Mir Draußen” - April 2024Taking the history of the Bärenzwinger bear enclosure as a starting point, the interdisciplinary performance company WILD ACCESS explores animals in captivity and an encounter with “the wild”. In creating a fictional, immersive environment, the performers fall into a “CLINCH”; a grapple at close quarters between the human and the non-human, between claws and jaws. The audience is invited into an extended choreography that slips across territories of domestication and ferocity.
TEAM Artistic direction & choreography: Beatrix Joyce Performance & co-creation: michela filzi, Susanna Ylikoski, Savina Casarin, Hannah Schillinger, Imola NagyLights: Lena Gätjens Sound: Sebastian FaustText: Beatrix Joyce, Michela Filzi
Many thanks to Galerie Bärenzwinger, Philipp Hennch, Vanessa Goeppner, Joana Stamer, Theaterscoutings / PAP, Marisa Burkhardt, Kai Padberg.
2024 © WILD ACCESS - photo by Alicja Hoppel
SOFT COLLISION
by Anna SchäffnerSoft collision (2024) looks at the potential of safe physical interaction by embracing collision rather than avoiding it. Creating a tangible interface between humans and robots as a tool for direct manipulation and live programming. Introducing a novel design framework, by a deformable and sensitive membrane activated via pneumatic.
VOJEXT S+T+ARTS Art Residence 3: Social Robots
Residence lead by VOJEXT PARTNERS: Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologica (IIT), Universdidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Universidad Nebrija (UNNE) and WAAG
Supported by The Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« Berlin
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Grant Agreement no.952197
- April 2024 at Futurelab the Waag, Amsterdam (NL)
2024 © Anna Schäffner - photo by Michelle Mantel
ARM DANCES
by Niels Weijer
Video by Danish Film ©2024
Funded by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ - STEPPING OUT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz.
- May 2025 in the festival Divadlo Štúdio Tanca at Záhrada - Centrum nezávislej kultúry, Slovakia
- September 2024 at Kleine Orangerie Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin
- August 2024 at Boulevard Festival S’Hertogenbosch (NL)
- August 2023 at Kiezkapelle, Berlin
- Sptember 2022 in the frame of „AUSUFERN FESTIVAL“ at Uferstudios and Lobeblock, Berlin
- Premiere in September 2022 in Kiezkapelle, Neukölln, Berlin
LINEAR ENGAGEMENT
by Michael O’ConnorDance films by Mike O’Connor, as part of his doctoral thesis in the framework of the THIRD Fellowship at the DAS Graduate School. With the support of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in Vienna, and the HZT in Berlin.
Presented at Universität der Künste Berlin, Rundgang 2022.
2022 © Michael O’Connor - photos by Niels Weijer
2022 © Michael O’Connor - Video by Jubal Battisti