> go plastic STUDIO LAB #6
The go plastic STUDIO LAB #6 took place from October 11 until 15, 2022 at TENZA Schmiede
For the sixth go plastic STUDIO LAB different artists were invited to set impulses and inspire. The aim was to network and exchange artistic ideas within the framework of a laboratory and to encourage collective practice and research.
The sixth edition stood under the signs of our festive second half of the year 2022. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the company and in preparation for the “time & s_pace” festival, the collective invited with this STUDIO LAB artists who open new spaces, explore temporality and invite for collective practice.
From October 11-15, a daily program took place at TENZA. There were workshops by the artists Mandy Unger (Leipzig), Kat Válastur (Berlin) and Alex Effuse (Greece) as well as a company training on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday in cooperation with TanzNetzDresden (each from 10:00 – 11:30) and a yoga training with Luise Knofe on Saturday from 11:00 – 12:00.
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Information & registration
- Participation in the go plastic STUDIO LAB was free of charge or on a donation basis. However, registration via mail (to info@goplasticcompagnie.de) was mandatory and binding.
- STUDIO LAB Yoga training with Luise Knofe costed 10 Euro and was payed with PayPal or cash on site.
- Participation in the Compagnie / TNDD professional training cost was 5 Euro per unit for TNDD members; for non-TNDD members it was 8 Euro per unit. Payment could only be made by cash on site.
- More information about the event and requirements was sent via mail after registration.
- Live information about our events and activities can be followed at any time via our Telegram Channel.
The participating artists of go plastic STUDIO LAB #6:
Mandy Unger
Mandy Unger a.k.a. M.over works as a choreographer, dancer and DJ. In 2019 she founded the M.over Company in Leipzig and received numerous scholarships and grants for her productions in the recent years. In 2022, she is a resident artist at the Thuringian Theater Association. She received her dance training and expertise in the independent dance scene (DE, PRT, CH, USA) in the styles of contemporary dance as well as in hip hop and house culture (CH, USA, DE). She danced among others at the Tanztheater Erfurt (Ester Ambrosino), at Bounce urban! (Andrea von Gundten) and choreographed productions for stellwerk Theater Weimar, Theater Bernburg, Grüner Salon Berlin (Volksbühne), Lofft Theater Werkstatt e.V., among others.
Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
»PLAY Experimental«
Tuesday, October 12 from 12 a.m. – 2 p.m.
In the workshop »PLAY Experimental« the dancers were encouraged to creatively use new and own movement patterns by playing with musical structures, groove and improvisation. Initially, small dynamic routines were developed, inspired by the styles of House, Hip Hop, Contemporary and Floorwork. These were modified in the course of the workshop through inputs and aleatorics, so that playing with habits became a challenge. Finally, to focus on the genre “Experimental”, the examination of musicality and individual tasks were an essential conclusion of the workshop.
Alex Effuse
Alexandra Filippidou is a movement artist, dance teacher and performer from Greece. Her dance is influenced by ballet, jazz, Latin American dances and various couple dances. For many years she trained various street dance styles, with popping as her primary focus and influence. For the last four years she has been active in the street dance scene, winning and judging various competitions. She taught all over Europe, sharing her philosophy in life and dance through the style Waving. She danced at the cultural center “Stravos Niarchos” in Athens, at Tanzhaus NRW and worked with Canadian producer Jeremy Shaw on his project “Phase Shifting Index”. Her most recent work was at Fonty’s University of the Arts in Tilburg, Holland, where she also taught Waving.
Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
»Waving«
Saturday, October 15 from 1 – 3:30 p.m.
This workshop focused on exploring, playing and creating concepts in the style of waving. Alex worked in depth with the floor and taught how simple methods and the use of simple tools can unleash creativity. The course transformed practice into a playground and created movement on the floor with ease while working with natural abilities. Waving was the medium to discover new possibilities through guided exercises.
Cindy Hammer
Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
»Compagnie Training go plastic«
Tuesday, October 11
Thursday, October 13
Friday, October 14
each from 10 – 11:30 a.m.
Cindy Hammer‘s training consisted of three parts: a full-body, intensive warm up, another part in which improvisation and movement concepts were worked on and finally the learning of a choreographic sequence. The offer was aimed at professional and advanced dancers.
Kat Válastur
Kat Válastur (born in Athens, Greece ) is a Berlin based choreographer and performer. Her choreographic works are defined by the creation of transformative experiences on stage. In her work the bodies are manifesting the ways that power structures are experienced and are embodied. Through the use of the mythical as a tool, she creates a condition that is charged with historical, fictional, social and personal experiences.
Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
Wednesday, October 12 from 12 a.m. – 3 p.m.
“In the three hours that we are going to spend together we are going to taste different ways in bringing the focus into an experience of a collective work. How can we dance together and constitute an assemblage of different bodies with the desire to work together? How we negotiate and make decisions together while we dance in a condition where we all lead and we all follow? How can we awaken and activate such a non hierarchical awareness in a group work?”
Louise Knofe
After her studies at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden Luise Knofe started as a freelance professional dancer and teacher. She further specialized in Urban Dance & Experimental Styles in the “1 year international education program” at HipDrop in Malmö/Sweden and lived and trained in Los Angeles to start her career in the entertainment industry. Since then Luise has worked as a dancer, instructor and choreographer for various TV productions, music videos, live stage performances, commercials and theater productions that have taken her from Germany to Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Shanghai, Brussels, Amsterdam and London. She works as a creative director & choreographer, bringing breathtaking visions to life.
Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
„Dynamic vinyasa yoga”
Saturday, October 15 from 11 – 12 a.m.
Dynamic vinyasa yoga for every body / Flow through the motions with your breath / Focus on flexibility, strength & mindfulness
> go plastic STUDIO LAB #5
The go plastic STUDIO LAB summer edition took place from July 4 – 7, 2022 at TENZA.
Once again different artists were invited to set impulses and inspire. The aim was to network and exchange artistic ideas within the framework of a laboratory and to encourage collective practice and research.
The fifth edition was thematically oriented on the go plastic company’s ongoing research on emotion culture. The collective was working on that time on the theme of RAGE and concerned itself with performative practices in relation to emotional states.
For the laboratory in July 2022 three great guests were invited, who gave impulses and inspiration to (non)verbal expression, expressivity and improvisation.
For this purpose, a daily program took place at TENZA from July 4 – 7, 2022. There were workshops by artists Hanna Adelsberger (Berlin), Gwen Kyrg (Leipzig) and Yeliz Pazar (NRW) as well as a company training on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday in cooperation with TanzNetzDresden, which could be attended on these three days from 10:00 – 11:30.
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- Participation in the go plastic studio LAB was free of charge or on a donation basis. However, registration via mail (to info@goplasticcompagnie.de) was mandatory and binding.
- Participation in the Compagnie / TNDD professional training cost was 5 Euro per unit for TNDD members; for non-TNDD members it was 8 Euro per unit.
- More information about the event and requirements was sent via mail after registration.
- Live information about our events and activities can be followed at any time via our Telegram Channel.
The participating artists of go plastic STUDIO LAB #5:
Hanna Adelsberger
Hanna Adelsberger is a dancer and clinical psychologist. Her main focus is on the diversity of arm movements & techniques (e.g. tutting, flamenco). Currently she is part of the project “Urban Feminism“, which will celebrate its conclusion at this year’s Tanz im August Festival in Berlin. Hanna Adelsberger is also funded by NPN – STEPPING OUT with her project “FEMMEvolution” and received the 2021 Research and Work Grant Dance for her project “Algorythmic”. Hanna Adelsberger has been organizing the international Urban Female Festival “Queen 16” since 2019, which deals with the visibility of women in the art world.
Hanna Adelsberger also researched at FU Berlin on the influence of dance and movement on psychological well-being.
Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
“!Rise Your Arms!”
Monday, July 4 from 12 – 2 p.m. &
Tuesday, July 5 from 12 – 2 p.m.
The main focus on both days was on exploring the diversity of hand and arm movement & techniques. The goal was to be able to express more individuality and emotion in your own style. The first day set the focus on complex, abstract and geometric movements from tutting. The second day was about non-verbal communication of gestures of emotions such as anger. Storytelling was be another focus.
Gwen Kyrg
Gwen Kyrg (b. 1985 pronoun: she/her) is a freelance musician and performing artist. The hybrid works as a singer, performer, speaker, music and theater director and composer. Her focus is on jazz, free improvisation and pop, as well as language, movement and installation, which she combines in her own work to create theatrical performances and forms of contemporary musical theater.
In her ongoing free improvisation audio experiment format, Gwen Kyrg has been developing site-specific experimental arrangements for cross-disciplinary ensembles and audiences as lab partners since 2011. She collaborates on various projects across a broad spectrum from music to performing arts.
Gwen Kyrg’s own work revolves around the here and now, encounters, participation, listening, and femininity. Current productions 2021-2022: “Natural Woman – a performance at home” (Westflügel Leipzig), “complex and many” (concept album and installative song performance in cooperation with the band Aua Aua), performer at “Das Amt” (Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel Flensburg).
Gwen Kyrg graduated in 2011 with a diploma in jazz/pop vocals from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne and in 2015-2016 she completed her training in mime corporel dramatique (movement theater) at the Atelier des Mimes Berlin. She is a scholarship holder of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the Performing Arts Fund, the Music Fund and the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig. In 2019-2021 she cooperated in the Artist Development Programme with LOFFT – DAS THEATER in Leipzig.
Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
“collective anger-transformer”
Wednesday, July 6 from 12 – 3 p.m.
Based on her participatory performance “TUBATABU” – a parlor game for 4 people, which was used as a formal template, transferred to the theme and expanded with movement, within the go plastic STUDIO LAB the participants developed the format further into a collective anger transformer with the help of text and movement materials.
Yeliz Pazar
Yeliz Pazar is a dancer and choreographer. She is a co-founder of the dance collective “nutrospektif“, which emerged in 2012 and was labeled as Factory Artists by tanzhaus nrw in 2020. “nutrospektif” is making urban dance cultures more visible in the stage context, exploring artistic approaches, and advances dialogue in the dance landscape. Yeliz is also part of the first generation of Waacking dancers in Germany and organized “THE WAACK OFF” at tanzhaus nrw, the first event of the genre, which involved numerous international guests.
Impulse at the go plastic STUDIO LAB:
Waacking workshop
Thursday, July 7 from 12 – 3 p.m.
In the Waacking workshop, the loosening and strengthening of the arm muscles through arm coordination to music, confident and self-assured appearance, and poses played important roles.
Yeliz Pazar teached not only a very good foundation, but also effective learning methods for working independently. Her focus was on spontaneity and individuality as her classes are always aimed at urban dance styles, “freestyle” (improvisation); accordingly, Yeliz also worked on a strong musicality and body control.
> go plastic STUDIO LAB #4
We started the new year 2022 with the fourth go plastic STUDIO LAB Edition. Once again, various artists were invited to set impulses and inspire. The aim of this year’s laboratories was once again to network and exchange artistic ideas, as well as to engage in joint practice and research.
The first edition of the go plastic STUDIO LAB in 2022 was characterized by musicality, movement practice and composition. So this time it was not only about input, exchange and networking, but above all about sounding, tinting, listening and moving together.
From February 21 – 26, a daily program took place at TENZA. In addition to external workshops by and with the band ÄTNA, as well as the choreographers / teachers and dancers Luise Knofe & Zhian Lu, there was a research workshop with the go plastic company on their current research and new production of 2022 mind the rage. In cooperation with TanzNetzDresden, company training took place on the following days that week: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, each from 10 – 11:30 am.
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- Participation in the go plastic STUDIO LAB was free of charge or on a donation basis. Registration via mail (to info@goplasticcompagnie.de) was mandatory and binding. The number of participants was limited due to the current Corona protection regulations.
- The price for participation in the Compagnie / TNDD professional training was 5 Euro per unit for TNDD members; for non-TNDD members it was 8 Euro per unit.
- The 2G+ rule applied to all program points. (Vaccinated an/or recovered in addition an up to date test)
- More information about registration and requirements were send to each participant via mail after registration.
- Live information about our events and activities could be found at any time via our Telegram channel.
The participating artists of the go plastic STUDIO LAB #4:
Luise Knofe
After her studies at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden Luise started working as a professional dancer and teacher. She further specialized in Urban Dance & Experimental Styles in the “1 year international education program” at HipDrop in Malmö/Sweden and lived and trained in Los Angeles to start her career in the entertainment industry. Since then Luise has worked as a dancer, instructor and choreographer for various TV productions, music videos, live stage performances, commercials and theater productions that have taken her from Germany to Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Shanghai, Brussels, Amsterdam and London. She works as a creative director & choreographer, bringing breathtaking visions to life.
Zhian Lu
is a European choreographer, dancer and model. From a young age he developed a distinct and quirky sense of style and movement. His unique way of moving has led him to collaborate with numerous international brands and artists.
Born and raised in Brussels, Zhian started dancing at the age of 14. Mainly trained in hip-hop and urban, his journey has taken him around the world to influential cities such as Los Angeles, Shanghai, Paris, London, Tokyo, among others, to present and perform his art. Since 2017, he has been living and working in London.
ÄTNA
introduce themselves as avant-garde sound artists with a fine sense for catchy hooks and driving rhythms to a growing fanbase in Germany, as well as England or Russia. After features with Solomun, MEUTE, Marteria and the collaboration with the NDR Bigband at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, there is no doubt about the versatility of the two.
Although the duo would fit ideally in Berlin in every respect, Inéz and Demian remain loyal to the city where they met and began their musical collaboration: their adopted home of Dresden. Here, the two operate from their studio somewhat away from the major German music cities, and perhaps that’s why they have remained so unmistakably themselves.
The duo is a powerhouse of creativity and musical innovation. It is logical that this inevitably involves breaking down boundaries: those of genres, but also gender, role concepts, stylistic conventions of all kinds, and long-established ideas of what music can and should be allowed to do.
In the 2-hour lab-WORKSHOP, after a common warm-up with prepared sound materials of ÄTNA, the aim was to jam, try, experiment and share. The idea was to get into listening and moving with each other, as well as to bring music, sounds, voice and body into different fusions and qualities.
In their lab workshop Movement / Composition / Music, ÄTNA explored with the participants different movement concepts with a focus on musicality, as well as approaches to develop choreographic material based on musicality.
In the first slot, the two brought a sample choreography that was used not only to learn the sequence, but also to explain the choreographic approach.
In the second slot the participants developed their own choreographic material based on the existing concept.
go plastic Research Workshops about mind the rage
Within the fourth go plastic STUDIO LAB, go plastic Compagnie founding members and artistic directors Cindy Hammer and Susan Schubert offered two days of research workshops with interested parties. The collective has been researching the topic of anger for a long time and released a new production on this subject in 2022.
During the mind the rage workshop MOVEMENT – Cindy Hammer shared several propositions / assignments that related to the theme and aim to get into different qualities of movement from which material can and should be generated to be used in the other workshops.
Within the research Cindy Hammer dealt with different urban dance styles (Krump, Popping & Waacking) and their characteristics. She experimented with elements that she found thematically exciting and appropriate and fused them with contemporary movement and improvisation principles to develop tasks that include self-awareness, movement research and independent composition.
In the second mind the rage workshop about text & voice Susan Schubert offered different approaches to the use and energetic turnover of power and rage in voice and text. Controlled verbal outbursts were allowed.
Focus was on own text fragments and phrases, which wer put into the room and barked with fervor. Here you were allowed to swear and rant.
A format organized by the go plastic company, supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR Hilfsprogramm Tanz.
