Juli Reinartz

You said you'd give to me - Soon as you were free

A person wearing only underwear, dancing with their arms out, on a turquoise background.

Fr 1.12.2017, 19:15-20:15, MDT

Sa 2.12.2017, 19:15-20:15, MDT

"YSYGM" is a film without a camera. A body gets portrayed while dancing. The movie zooms in and out and registers all anatomical and performative details. The camera turns the body into microscopic material, flickering image, alien posture and moving pixel. But the camera does not really exist in the piece: Its perspectives is just the model for the perspective of the audience. It opens up the body for being both – a modifiable material and a desiring subject.

Negotiating the two ends of this line, "YSYGM" becomes a secret duet with the audience. It turns cyborgfeminist and searches the techno body for what becomes possible. Maybe the new perspective can be turned into a drag ritual. Here the piece encounters the most important question: how does it all feel like?

"YSYGM" is a metaphor.
"YSYGM" is an attempt.
"YSYGM" has good intentions and powerless means.
"YSYGM" asks how we all feel like.
"YSYGM" means we cannot wait until we’re free.

Juli Reinartz

Juli Reinartz studied at the University for Dance and Circus (DOCH) and works between Stockholm and Berlin. Her approach to choreography is fueld by the desire to produce formats that experiment on identity formation. Her works ‘Atlantic’, ‘Really Good Music’ and ‘Regional Geographic’ picked the topics of Afrofuturism and animism to explore that and have been shown in various places in Sweden, Germany, Finland, Iceland and Norway. In 2013, she researched on the concert format in a one year residency at Mejan. Since  2015, she is interested in techno bodies, film formats and the camera perspective on the body. The question is if this perspective is in fact a new ritual and if it can be turned into one. Her solo ‘You said you’d give it to me – soon as you were free’ investigates that from a specifically feminist perspective. Tanzabend 4 with Theater Thikwa in Berlin looks at that topic with a focus on difference and collectivity. Juli has been working together as a performer or outside eye with Angela Schubot, Jared Gradinger, Ingri Fiksdal, Trajall Harrel, Verena Billinger / Sebastian Schulz, Nora Schlocker, Jeremy Wade, Tea Tupajic and Social Muscle Club Berlin.

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Choreography/performance

Artistic collaboration

Dramaturgical assistance

Music

many

Production

Supported by

Slingan

Research funded by

Senat Berlin

Residencies

MDT, Tanzfabrik

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