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summer | main event
running from the 1st to the 28th of july 2024
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b12 summer main event
—location: eden***** studios & dock11
Joy Alpuerto Ritter
former dancer with the Akram Khan Company
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. joy's performance project runs from 2 - 14 july 2024.
rehearsals:
2 july - 8 july: 13:00 - 16:30 at eden studios
9 july: no rehearsal
10 july: 10:45 - 12:15 at dock 11 theater / 13:00 - 14:45 at dock 11 studio
11 july: 9:30 - 11:15 at dock 11 studio / 12:15 - 15:15 at dock 11 theater
12 july: 9:00 - 10:45 at dock 11 studio / 11:15 - 13:15 at dock 11 theater / 16:00 - 18:00 dress rehearsal at dock 11 theater with all three groups
13 july: 13:15 -13:45 possible feedback session at dock 11 theater
14 july: 13:15 -13:45 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.
oculus
In the years of her experience as a professional dancer, Joy has developed a unique movement language, which is inspired by different cultural contexts. That versatility is the core of her choreographic work. Within the B12 performance project creation, Joy will be working with different techniques, such as elements of contemporary dance and styles of urban dance forms. Her main focus lies in transformation, character work, and the strength of unity. The movement language is precise, detailed, playful and physical. rhythm patterns and musicality is also an important element in the physical research. In her work, Joy likes to embrace the differences of individuals, but is also interested in common desires, struggles, and hopes of human beings.
biography
Joy Alpuerto Ritter was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Freiburg, in Breisgau, Germany. In her youth, she was trained in ballet, jazz, philippine, and polynesian folk dance, and graduated at the Palucca School in Dresden, Germany, with a dance diploma. She started working as a freelance contemporary dancer in and around Berlin, with choreographers like Christoph Winkler, Heike Hennig, Yui Kawaguchi, and Wangramirez. during this time, she expanded her repertory in Hip hop dance styles and was active in this community in europe. In 2011 she joined Cirque du Soleil as a dancer and aerial artist for the Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour. Since 2013 she has been touring as a dancer and rehearsal director of the Akram Khan Company and has been nominated as outstanding female dancer (modern), for the Performance Until the Lions, by the National Dance Awards UK. Since 2016 she has found international response as a choreographer and creates works for film and own dance theatre pieces. Her signature is finding an interesting fusion of movement vocabulary that comes from different cultural backgrounds. Following her internationally acclaimed solo BABAE (selected for Aerowaves 2020) and award winning piece OZ - the magic in us, Joy’s body of work develops as she leads on the direction of collaborative cross-pollinated performances with an array of talented artists and creatives like Akram Khan, Chen Shi-Zheng, Viviana Durante, Gideon berger and Floria sigismundi.
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