b12

b12 summer main event

asteroids area 51

b12 participants work out and research ideas with a choreographer in order to present them in a site-specific performance setting. the following workshop description is the starting point for the piece to be developed. the draft will then be presented to the public.

this performance project area 51 by johannes will use a location to create a site-specific piece, collaborating with a dance film workshop led by chrysanthi badeka. both teams will be in contact at different times, and on one day we will practice altogether in intensive shootings to create the short dance film versions of our characters. in the end of the project, we will present the site-specific performance in the physical space in an open sharing event. there will be at least two performances of the site-specific piece and screenings of the short dance films produced through collaboration with the filming team at b12!

Chrysanthi Badeka // Johannes Wieland

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01/08/2025 // 00:00

02/08/2025 // 00:00

Chrysanthi Badeka

MOZ

Chrysanthi Badeka pursued her M.F.A at Tisch School of the Arts in NYU (New York) after completing her b.a in dance (athens), focusing on choreography for the camera. Since then, she has been working as a freelance choreographer, cinematographer, editor, videodance trainer, and curator. For 10 consecutive years she dedicated herself to the promotion of the art of videodance, co-directing AVDP - International Dance Film Festival in Athens / GR (2010-2020). she is now running MOZ Productions, a Cultural organisation, focusing on her artistic practice and dance film education. As a maker, propelling dance & composition, her transmedia practice merges movement with technology, nature and science, working through different mediums, presenting her works on or off theatrical stage, on cinematic screens, monitors or synthetic environments (Virtual Reality). As an interdisciplinary artist, she has been supported and worked with the Greek Ministry of Culture, the National Opera of Greece, NEON, Onassis Stegi, Compagnia di San Paolo and SIAE (in collaboration with COORPI), State Scholarship Foundation of Greece, NYU, among others. In 2022 she received the BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD by InShadow Dance Film Festival, for the short film Battle of Fishes. She has been a jury member, and/or curator, for multiple festivals, such as DAN.CIN.FEST (FR), La Danza in 1 minuto (It), IBDF festival (Ro), L'ALTERNATIVA (Sp), OFF EUROPA (Ger), LOIKKA (Fin), and TANZRAUSCHEN festival (Ger).

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are you interested in diving into a collective experience that combines applied cinematic principles and dance narrations? does transmedia storytelling fascinate you? do you seek opportunities that allow you to expand your dance film making practice? this hybrid workshop is designed for you. two teams will work independently, and tightly coupled, to create two different outputs of this unique collaboration. as a final step, they will share both the screenings and the site-specific performance with the community during the 2025 festival edition. the filming team, supervised by chrysanthi badeka, will observe the storylines and the characters of the performance team led by johannes wieland. our main focus lies on the creation of the short dance film versions of those characters. together, we will analyse their body narrations and their movement in the physical space, in order to transform those dances for the screen. during the dance film workshop, you will get familiar with cinematic equipment, dynamic filming with camera on gimbal, reperage, decoupage, storyboarding, and shootings. the editing of the footage that you will shoot will be done by chrysanthi badeka. however, you need to bring any equipment that you have with you (such as camera, lenses, monitor, tripod, gimbal, microphones, laptop etc). johannes' team of performers will invent and build different characters. during the project, they will discuss the foundation of a convincing character and what it means to perform it. they will also build little islands of ideas that they will then thread together. space will influence them and they will influence space. then they work together with us, supporting the pre-production preparations, and reconstructing the choreography for the camera and the decoupage. in the end, this combined group (filming team & performance team) will participate in an open sharing evening with the site-specific performance, which will be presented by the performance team and the screenings of the short dance films. the main focus of this event is the fruitful reconciliations between all of the participants and the audience, sharing their experience and exchanging with each other. everyone who is interested is welcome, whether filmmakers, musicians, dance film lovers, dancers, physical performers, actors/actresses, singers, circus artists, etc. please be ready to create and take risks, both physically and emotionally. b12 will provide the final outputs to all participants from both teams (short dance films and the documentation video from the site-specific performance). All of the digital outputs can be shared publicly. if you are interested in a performance project and a cinematographic experience full of adventure and cross pollination, one of these two teams might be for you!

Johannes Wieland

conceived in lisbon and born in berlin, johannes wieland completed his bfa at the amsterdam university of the arts and worked, thereupon, in various companies with an extensive array of choreographers. after performing with the béjart ballet lausanne, he relocated to new york city, where he received his mfa in contemporary dance and choreography at nyu / tisch school of the arts. while running the company johannes wieland in new york, he built from scratch what, for fiftheen years, has been known as the contemporary dance company at the state theatre of kassel, germany, holding positions as a resident choreographer, artistic director, and director of the dance department. his continued cinematic interest led him to making short movies. creating multi-disciplinary work through his berlin company, mind eraser/johannes wieland is his newest playground, and aside from being commissioned by companies and teaching for universities, his critically acclaimed pieces have been invited to tour internationally to festivals and events. johannes is also directing and curating b12 - the festival for contemporary dance and performance art (www.b12.space), which runs annually in berlin. he is a 1st prize winner of the kurt jooss prize and has been awarded numerous other prizes, recognitions, scholarships, and grants. johannes was a nominee for the german theatre prize der faust, in 2016, for his creation you will be removed. he works on non-categorising art.

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johannes' team of performers will start with a character build - everyone has to invent a character. during the project, we will discuss the foundation of a convincing character and what it means to perform it. we will also build little islands of ideas, which we will create and thread together. they can be theatrical, very physical, voice directed, or anything in between. space will influence us and we will influence space.   the team of filming practitioners will work closely together with chrysanthi badeka, getting themselves familiar with the basic cinematographic principles, storyboarding, decoupage, reperage, dynamic filming with gimbal and other cinematic equipment. on specific dates they will be in one space with us. they will observe the characters and the storylines we will develop, analysing the movement and body narrations. we will co-work on the pre-production phase, the reconstruction of the choreography for the camera and the shootings. everyone who is interested is welcome, whether dancers, physical performers, actors/actresses, singers, circus artists etc. please be ready to create, take risks, both physically and emotionally. b12 will provide the final outputs to all participants from both teams (short dance films and the documentation video of the site-specific performance). All the digital outputs can be shared publicly. if you are interested in a performance project and a cinematographic experience full of adventure and cross pollination, one of these two teams might be for you! choose the team you want to participate in: performance team, led by johannes wieland or filming team, led by chrysanthi badeka.

performers

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chrysanthi badeka // framing performance project area 51

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