Britt Hatzius
Britt Hatzius:
Moving Out Loud
Performance
Performance
»Moving Out Loud« is an experience of dance without the sense of sight. In small groups, with eyes closed, the audience finds itself in the middle of the stage, immersed in a sonic landscape of descriptive voices and moving bodies. Developed together with blind and sighted dancers, the performance artistically deals with (self-)audio description and the potential empathic resonance in the acoustic perception of dance.
The encounter between different voices and bodies offers a playful examination of the question of how movement can be experienced beyond the visual aspect of dance. Amid audible stage presence of the dancers, and without visual reference, the audience is presented with a very individual idea of dance and body perception. Starting with blind ballet dancer Krishna Washburn‘s teaching method of self-audio description in her online Dark Room Ballet workshops, Britt Hatzius explored the acoustic potential of a non-visual experience of dance in her research together with blind dancer Pernille Sonne, blind singer Gerlinde Sämann and sighted dancers Cecilia Ponteprimo and Livia Vogt. With this performance, she makes this shared exploration accessible to a sighted and non-sighted audience through the immersive sound installation OTTOsonics.
Britt Hatzius (DE/UK) works in the areas of film, video, sound and performance, often in collaboration with other artists. Her works include the performative installation “Micro Events” (2012) with Tom Kok, the interactive performance “This Is Not My Voice Speaking” (2013) and “Wie Noch Nie, Wie Nie Wieder” (2015) with Ant Hampton Performances »Blind Cinema« (2016), »Look at the Moving Image« (2016), »In Order Not To Be There« (2017) and »The Users« ↗ (2020) with Darren O‘Donnell, as well as »Listening Distance « (2019) in collaboration with Thomas Tajo. In 2020 she co-founded Vision Inclusive ↗ with Thomas, a non-profit organisation that initiates and supports collaboration between people with and without disabilities.
www.britthatzius.co.uk ↗
www.visioninclusive.org ↗
Krishna Washburn (US) is a professional blind ballet dancer based in New York. Apart from her “Darkroom Ballet Workshops” she was also mentor of blind dancer DJ Robinson during “enVISION: Sensory Beyond Sight” (2022) a performance by ShaLeigh Dance Works.
www.darkroomballet.com
Pernille Sonne (DE/DK) is a blind actress and voice coach and lives in Leipzig. As part of her practice she explores artistic audio description in collaboration with other artists.
Cecilia Ponteprimo (DE/IT) is a sighted dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. She studied dance at the University of the Arts Amsterdam and lives in Heidelberg.
Livia Vogt (DE) is a sighted dance teacher, dancer and choreographer from Stuttgart. She studied dance at the Professional Dance Academy in Stuttgart.
Gerlinde Sämann (DE) is a blind soprano and vocal artist and lives in Augsburg. She studied piano and singing at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and is a trained breath therapist.
Regie / Konzept: Britt Hatzius, in cooperation with performers / Dance: Krishna Washburn, Pernille Sonne, Cecilia Ponteprimo, Gerlinde Sämann, Livia Vogt, Lorenzo Ponteprimo, Georgia Begbie
Dramaturgy: Charlotte Arens
Artistic advice / Outside Ear: Melanie Hambrecht, Lenka Löhmann, Sanatha Hannig, Thomas Tajo (Vision Inclusive)
Sound editing: Britt Hatzius, Felix Deufel with piano music by Hanna Rani
Sound recordings: Britt Hatzius, Rupert Jaud
Ambisonic sound engineering (OTTOsonics): Manu Mitterhuber
Artistic production: Katja Timmerberg
Co-produced by Theater Rampe e.V., Stuttgart and with the support of Schwankhalle, Bremen and EinTanzHaus e.V., Mannheim.
Made possible with project funding by Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg (LaFT BW) e.V.. LaFT BW e.V. is funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts.
Additionaly supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Supported by Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company ↗ and INTER-ACTIONS – more than a dance company.
