research or die.
summer | main event
running from the 1st to the 28th of july 2024
© sam roberts
© showing assistant Harrison elliot
b12 summer main event
—location: eden***** studios & dock11
gabrielle nankivell
choreographer & performer - artistic collaborator with maxine doyle
this performance project is designed for around 17 people and lasts for 13 days (tuesday off). it will be presented five times alongside two other performance projects at dock 11, a theater in the center of berlin. gabrielle's performance project runs from 2 - 14 july 2024.
rehearsals:
2 july - 8 july: 17:00 - 20:30 at eden studios
9 july: no rehearsal
10 july: 9:30 - 10:15 at dock 11 studio / 12:30 - 14:00 at dock 11 theater
11 july: 11:15 - 13:00 at dock 11 studio / 15:30 - 18:30 at dock 11 theater
12 july: 10:45 - 12:30 at dock 11 studio / 13:30 - 15:30 at dock 11 theater / 16:00 - 18:00 dress rehearsal at dock 11 theater with all three groups
13 july: 14:00 -14:30 possible feedback session at dock 11 theater
14 july: 14:00 -14:30 possible feedback session at dock 11 theater
performances:
12 july: 19:00 - 20:30 at dock 11 theater
13 july: 15:00 - 16:30 & 19:00 - 20:30 at dock 11 theater
14 july: 15:00 - 16:30 & 19:00 - 20:30 at dock 11 theater
new: if you are interested in us booking housing for you during the time of the performance project as well, indicate that in your application. please understand that we have limited housing available.
the application deadline is 28 april 2024.
Our Impermanent Universe
A succession of slow blinks revealing constantly shifting patterns of thought and action
Like heart beats in glass jars
Or fireworks in outer space
The ethereal, the un-pin-down-able, the just beyond our grasp…
A personal mythology built from collective experience
Enchantment, haunting, madness and magnetism
An instruction manual for new rituals.
Thought patterns are one of the main ingredients in dancing so doing dancing together is a great opportunity to see some pretty interesting people think. Let’s dance think together to build a performance of process and product – a snapshot of concrete impermanence – a place for weird, ugly, beautiful, wildness.
biography
gabrielle nankivell is an acclaimed australian artist. her atmospheric performance works and immersive projects are known for their vivid choreography, attention to detail and evocative combinations of the mundane and the bizarre. recognised as a leading independent, also commissioned by highly regarded dance companies and cultural organisations, gabrielle's work has been widely presented across australia, europe and asia in theatres as well as unique halls, galleries and open-air venues across armenia, andalucía and regional australia. recent works include wildebeest and neon aether for sydney dance company, carbon field with 40 dancers of the queensland ballet & adc and surge for dancenorth for the 2018 commonwealth games. in 2024 gabrielle worked with maxine doyle as artistic assistant/co-choreographer on her new work fifteen minutes for nederlands dans theater 2 and premiered kaleidoscope, a new work for ql2 dance in canberra. as a performer gabrielle has worked with australian dance theatre, alexander baervoets (be), chunky move/gideon obarzanek, gavin webber/regurgitator, jurij konjar (slo), maxine doyle (uk), the farm, thomas steyaert (be), raul maia (pt) & ultima vez/wim vandekeybus (be) amongst others. she is currently performing in salamander conceived by maxine doyle & es devlin. gabrielle is part of the artistic team at australasian dance collective.
assistant
harrison elliott
Harrison has worked in the performing arts industry for over 12 years, throughout which he has operated as an independent artist, workshop facilitator, writer, choreographer, rehearsal associate and company artist with various Australian companies. These include Buzz Dance Theatre, Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Force Majeure, Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) and Australasian Dance Collective (ADC). He has been a collaborative performer on new works by artists such as Maxine Doyle, Ina Christel Johannessen and Gabrielle Nankivell, and toured repertory works by Hofesh Shechter, Melanie Lane and Amy Hollingsworth. In 2019 Harrison was nominated for an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer for his performance in ADT’s South. Harrison’s dance lineage so far has enabled him to engage with a variety of performance styles and movement training, ranging from aerial silks, parkour and breakdance to acting and voice work. Currently, his interest in performance and creative process are founded in the identification and blurring of binaries. In particular, he has a keen interest in the existentially fraught notion of what is necessary and what is other, in both art and the art making process. Through this lens, Harrison merges his practices in virtuosic physicality with conceptual research that continually questions its necessity.
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