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asteroids
b12 participants work out and research ideas with a choreographer in order to present them in a performance series setting. the workshop description is the starting point for the piece to be developed. the draft will then be presented to the public at dock 11. b12ers can get tickets at a reduced ticket price (10 euro)!
Joy Alpuerto Ritter // rainer behr
performance projects
dates (dock 11 theater)
Joy Alpuerto Ritter
dancer with the Akram Khan Company
joy alpuerto ritter (*1982 in los angeles, usa) grew up in freiburg im breisgau, germany, where she began her first ballet training. after graduating with a diploma from the palucca dance school in dresden in 2004, she established herself as a versatile berlin-based dancer and choreographer, working across classical ballet, contemporary dance, philippine folk, club, and street dance styles. joy’s choreographic work, which has gained international acclaim since 2016 (e.g. with a nomination as outstanding female dancer at the uk national dance awards and winner of the ikarus prize for the piece for young audience oz - the magic in us) fuses diverse cultural movement vocabularies and often brings together classical forms with urban and modern dance practices. she has toured internationally with renowned companies including akram khan company, wangramirez, christoph winkler, heike hennig, zora snake, and cirque du soleil. joy alpuerto ritter’s choreographic work is defined by a fusion of movement vocabularies: her classical training in ballet and contemporary dance intersects with early studies in philippine and polynesian traditional dances, as well as her engagement with berlin’s hip hop and voguing scenes. rooted in a deep commitment to the communal aspects of dance, alpuerto ritter moves between stage-based productions and communal dance practices, bridging distinct cultural aesthetics and choreographic traditions.
Beautiful beasts (Working title)
in this performance project joy wants to explore different meanings of beauty. where lies the essence of it - in somebody’s soul, in a shape, in the eye of the beholder? who says so and why? and what does it even mean for ourselves, our daily life? are we ugly if we deny society’s standards? while searching for answers, joy wants to encourage the participants to explore various emotional, cultural, and physical layers. yet joy will teach set choreographic movement material, based on precision, musicality, and her unique combination of different dance styles and expressions. the participants will be able to engage themselves in this creative movement research, exchange perspectives, and find freedom in a structure through improvisational and compositional tasks. are you a beauty or a beast? a beautiful beast?
rainer behr
dancer / choreographer
rainer behr was born in neustadt an der waldnaab, germany, in 1964. after completing his training as a gymnastics teacher, he studied dance at the folkwang university of the arts. from 1990 to 1995, he danced with the folkwang tanzstudio in essen, working with susanne linke, raffaella giordano, urs dietrich, and mark sieczkarek, and also performed as a guest dancer with the tanztheater wuppertal. in 1995, pina bausch invited him to become a permanent member of the ensemble. he has been choreographing since 1989 and has received several awards, including first prize at the choreographic competition in cagliari for die wendung der dinge, and the claasen dance award. he created numerous works for the folkwang tanzstudio and the tanztheater wuppertal, including pieces for the underground series, and has worked as a guest choreographer for theater bielefeld. his first full-length work for the tanztheater, schlafende frau, premiered at the wuppertal opera house in 2021. he has also created works for staatstheater braunschweig, osnabrück theatre, and international projects. in recent years, he developed vona with dancers from ukraine and created when wormwood blooms for theatre les kurbas in lviv. in 2024, he created the project field. morning lady in ukraine with a ukrainian dancer, as part of the per forma grant program, implemented by the kyiv contemporary music days platform. in 2025, he created the project monolit for the polish dance theatre in poznan.
time loop lap
time loop as a starting point for the entrance into a process that should also encourage us, in our project work, to free ourselves from constant repetition. given the limited time often available to creators, perhaps a kind of anarchic approach to finding events can help avoid relying on tried-and-true methods and materials just to produce an outcome in the end. perhaps a measure of risk and the urge to catapult oneself out of this loop can be beneficial. it’s an attempt to allow oneself to get lost in order to be found anew, a laboratory of forgetfulness to remember again, so that from the overflow of the same, an ecstasy of daring emerges. and if, in the experimental attempt, something goes wrong and something explodes, then that’s just how it is.
performers
joy alpuerto ritter // beautiful beasts (working title)
rainer behr // time loop lap
performers: nn
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