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b12 summer main event
sungrazers
b12 invites artists who are teaching at the b12 festival to present an evening-length piece.
lukas malkowski
Microphone Controller
dates (dock 11 theater)
unfortunately, there are no disabled parking spaces near DOCK 11.
Lukas Malkowski (he/they) is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult), performance maker, and Aquarius based between Germany and Canada. He has performed in John Wick 4, CTM Festival berlin, Babylon Berlin, Rodeo Festival Munich, FestivalTransAmérique Montreal, and the Schrittmacher Festival Holland. Lukas’ work is shaped by the embodiment of physics, voice, and Sign. He’s choreographed ambient sets, music videos, and films for Sam Slater (Joker OST), LBT, and 7th Plain (Luke Slater), recently winning an audience choice award at the biennial dance: made in canada festival for his solo, Microphone Controller. Flowmentum, his teaching practice, is driven by social dialogue and physics embodiments through sight and touch. He’s taught and performed at festivals, companies, and schools in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Berlin, Kassel, Munich, Slovakia, and Mexico City. Since attaining his BFA in Dance Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University, he’s worked with Naishi Wang, Ceren Oran, Guillaume Côté, Robert Lepage, Toronto Dance Theatre, Wang Ramirez, Staatsballett Berlin, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Jasmine Ellis, Diane Borsato, Adelheid, Kate Hilliard, Mocean Dance, and Deaf Spectrum. In 2021 Lukas received the Recherchestipendium Darstellende Kunst, and he is also one of the 2022/23 Tanzpraxis recipients in the Emerging Artist category.
Microphone Controller
Microphone Controller: Simultaneously, a dance solo and sensory concert.
Songs, Signs (ASL), speeches, moans, thrashes, come together to create a sonic, vibrating, visual concert experience. A celebration of Voice. Seen Voice. Heard Voice. Felt Voice. Homaging the likes of Prince, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. Embodying stadium-level rockstars, Sign Language and Dance.
Working with a team of CODA, Deaf, hearing, and hard of hearing artists, Lukas Malkowski explores accessibility and identity; blending spectacle with personal and political perspectives as a CODA(Child of Deaf Adult). Each scene of this performance is saturated with bright lights and heavy vibrational bass; often engaging 2-3 senses simultaneously. This semi-fictional docudrama concert weaves Speech, Sign, and Dance to tell the story of the rockstar Microphone Controller, challenging societal notions of ‘Voice’ and ‘Music’ with Deaf and CODA perspectives.
Performance & Choreography: Lukas Malkowski
Dramaturgy: Antonia Gersch
Music Production & Coaching: Roland Meyer de Voltaire
Costume: Moussi Bang
Dialogue Partner/Outside Eye: Rita Mazza
DGS Coaching: pinky Aiello
ASL Coaching: Gaitrie Persaud-Killings
Light Design/Technician: rob Prideaux
Original Lighting Design: chris Malkowski
Caption Design / Vision: julia CremersCaptions for Summerworks: teagan Ariss.
Videography: drew Berry
Trailer Videography: walter Bickmann
Quotes by Akiles Agaili and Christine Sun Kim
Made possible through summerworksto, senatsverwaltung für kultur europa Berlin, Tanzpraxis 2022/3, dance:madeincanada/fait au Canada, Tanzhaus zurich, ada-studio
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