go plastic company

WE ARE AN ARTISTIC COLLECTIVE EXPRESSING OURSELVES DISCURSIVELY AND INTERDISCIPLINARILY, THROUGH THE MEDIUMS OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE, CINEASTICS AND CREATING VISUAL WORLDS WHOSE TEXTILE FACETS STEM FROM FASHION DESIGN. WE COLLABORATE SITUATIONALLY, PRODUCTIVELY AND TRANSPARENTLY TO CREATE RELEVANT, SUSTAINABLE AND INCLUSIVE OFFERINGS. HUNGRY FOR SOCIOCRITICAL DISCOURSE, WE’LL PICK YOU UP FROM SPACES, NON-PLACES, AND HOME. INTO FANTASTIC, UTOPIAN AND AESTHETIC VISIONS OF THE FUTURE.

> STUDIO LAB #7

We are very happy and excited to continue with our go plastic STUDIO LAB this year. In each edition, different artists are invited to this format in order to set impulses and inspire. The aim is to network and exchange artistic ideas within the framework of a laboratory and to encourage collective practice and research.

If you would like to browse through the past issues of our go plastic STUDIO LAB in 2022 you are very welcome to do so here.

STUDIO LAB is a format organized by the go plastic company, supported by bureau ritter / TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR support program dance initiative.

The seventh and thus first edition 2023 will take place from April 11 – 15 at TENZA. Invited are the great Melissa Schriek (NL), who will take us into her exciting artistic practice, and the wonderful Joy Alpuerto Ritter, who has already been a guest at our time & s_pace festival last December with her solo piece “Babae”.
In addition, there will be a go plastic company training on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (each from 10:00-11:30) and another company training on Saturday from 11:00 to 12:30.

And also, Luise Knofe will offer a yoga session on Wednesday from 10:30 to 11:30.

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Information & registration

Participation in the go plastic studio lab is free of charge or on a donation basis. However, registration via mail (to info@goplasticcompagnie.de) is mandatory and binding.
Participation in the Compagnie / TNDD professional training costs 5 Euro per unit for TNDD members;
for non-TNDD members it is 8 Euro per unit.
More information about the event and requirements will be sent to you via mail after registration.
Live information about our events and activities can be followed at any time via our Telegram Channel.

The participating artists and formats of go plastic STUDIO LAB #7 are:

Melissa Schriek

Melissa Schriek is a Dutch photographer who uses notions of performance and bodily movement to research how we relate to each other and to our daily environment. With her project ‘The City is a Choreography’ she explored how the human body can connect to the city environment, both physically and emotionally.
In addition to these activities, Melissa explores the dynamics of female friendship and sisterhood through a project called “Ode,” in which she casts twenty-five pairs of female friends to capture their unique relationships.

Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
»Title: t.b.a.«
Thursday, April 13 from 12 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

During the Lab Melissa Schriek will guide you through the process of performing with your body in public space and how to look at daily life in a new way. The workshop day will exist of the following four parts:

a presentation on the work and process of Melissa’s work
a contact improvisation exercise in the studio
public space performance research relating to “The City is a Choreography”
after talk: a talk between all participants about our experience

Joy Alpuerto Ritter

Joy Alpuerto Ritter’s roots are from the Philippines. She was born in the USA and grew up in Germany. She graduated at the Palucca School in Dresden and learned philippine folk dance from her mother. She has been working with companies/choreographers like : Akram Khan, Cirque du soleil, Wangramirez ,Christoph Winkler, Constanza Macras, Yui Kawaguchi and Heike Hennig. Her Dance reaches out to a diversity of styles from urban dance, voguing, folk and contemporary dance. In 2016 she has been nominated as “outstanding female dancer” (modern) in the Performance “Until the Lions” by the National Dance Awards UK.

In the last years she has found international response as an Choreographer and is one of the Aerowaves artists 2020.

Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
»SHAPESHIFTING DYNAMICS«
Tuesday, April 11 & Wednesday, April 12
each from 12 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Joy’s workshop is a practice sourced out of different movement techniques that she has been training in her 30 years experience as a dancer. Her versatile background in traditional, classical, urban and contemporary dance made her develop a unique mix of movement qualities. In joy’s workshop we will practice grounded, dynamic physicality and grooves which strengthens the presence and virtuosity in space. As well as the details in articulating and isolating body parts in connection with musicality and rhythmical patterns. The participants will do exercises and also learn choreographic material with these elements, while also having the possibility to engage in their own creativity and individual qualities with improvisational tasks in order to go deeper into different body states and expression within the given context.

go plastic Lab Workshop

Saturday, April 15, from 1 to 3:30 p.m.

The go plastic team is currently working on the theme of melancholy and will develop a solo production this year. Within the lab workshop, Cindy and Susan invite you to explore movement images, material collections and approaches together with them. Guided by the two, the participants will mainly work with improvisation with body, movement, voice and material.
The workshop will take place in German and English.

The lab is open to people of the age of 15 years or older.
Experience with bodywork is a prerequisite.

If you have any questions about the workshop, the schedule or access, please contact us at any time at info@goplasticcompagnie.de.

Company Classes

go plastic company class with Cindy Hammer«
Friday, April 14, 10 to 11:30
Saturday, April 15, 11 to 12:30

Cindy Hammer‘s training consists of three parts: a full-body, intensive warm up, another part in which improvisation and movement concepts are worked on and finally the learning of
a choreographic sequence.

go plastic company class with Susan Schubert
Tuesday, April 11 & Thursday, April 13
each from 10 to 11:30

Susan Schubert’s company training is also focused on preparing the body and mind for the day. Additionally, Susan works somatically with improvisation and space-time body awareness.

The offer is aimed at professional and advanced dancers.

Luise Knofe

After her studies at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden Luise Knofe started as a freelance professional dancer and teacher. She further specialized in Urban Dance & Experimental Styles in the “1 year international education program” at HipDrop in Malmö/Sweden and lived and trained in Los Angeles to start her career in the entertainment industry. Since then Luise has worked as a dancer, instructor and choreographer for various TV productions, music videos, live stage performances, commercials and theater productions that have taken her from Germany to Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Shanghai, Brussels, Amsterdam and London. She works as a creative director & choreographer, bringing breathtaking visions to life.

Impulse at go plastic STUDIO LAB:
»Dynamic vinyasa yoga«
Wednesday, April 12 from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Dynamic vinyasa yoga for every body / Flow through the motions with your breath / Focus on flexibility, strength & mindfulness

> ASPHALT LAB

ASPHALT LAB at DAVE Festival 2023

From October 6 – 15, 2023, the tenth edition of DAVE, the festival for club culture, will take place in Dresden. We are very happy that go plastic company has been invited to this big anniversary to perform an ASPHALT LAB as well as an ASPHALTSTUDIEN performance during the festival period at Dresden’s ZENTRALWERK.

ASPHALT LAB

What do skyscrapers and cloud formations have in common? Quite simply: what you make of them by yourself. And the ASPHALTWELTEN app opens up just that in lots of playful challenges: new urban worlds in a very private and interactive focus.

We will find out what exactly such a challenge can look like during a joint ASPHALT LAB workshop of about two hours at the DAVE Festival on October 7, 2023. For this purpose, the participants will go on a short excursion, during which various tasks will be set and implemented: The focus will be on bodies, movement and choreographic arrangements in public space.

All participants of the laboratory workshop will be guided by the artists Cindy Hammer, Momo Fujita Tanner, Joao Pedro De Paula and Susan Schubert.

Information

Title: ASPHALT LAB – A laboratory workshop using the ASPHALTWELTEN app
Date: October 7, 2023; 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: ZENTRALWERK (Riesaer Str. 32, 01127 Dresden) as well as the adjacent district of Pieschen.
Language: German & English
The participation is free of charge

Registration is welcome at info@goplasticcompagnie.de.

More informations about the ASPHALTWELTEN app are available at:
goplasticcompany.de/asphaltwelten-app-engl

ASPHALT LAB is a format of the go plastic company. Sponsored by the Office for Culture and Monument Protection Dresden as part of the institutional support of the state capital Dresden. With the kind support of TanzNetzDresden and TENZA.

>> ASPHALTSTUDI EN PERFORMANCE

ASPHALTSTUDIEN performance at DAVE Festival 2023

Following our ASPHALT LAB, there will be an additional free ASPHALTSTUDIEN performance at DAVE 2023 on October 7, 2023, which will start at 8:00 p.m. at ZENTRALWERK and to which all interested parties are cordially invited.

Information

Title: ASPHALTSTUDIEN Performance
Date: October 7, 2023, 8:00 p.m.
Performance: Cindy Hammer, Momo Fujita Tanner, Joao Pedro De Paula & Susan Schubert
Duration: about 30 minutes
Location: ZENTRALWERK, Riesaer Str. 32, 01127 Dresden, Germany
Admission is free of charge

More information about the ASPHALTWELTEN project is available at:
asphaltwelten.goplasticcompany.de/asphaltwelten_english/

>>> M ELANCHOLIC MARATHON

Performative permanent installation at villa/wigman

Based on emotional practice and emotional culture, go plastic explores, creates and sets artistic positions on the state of mind of melancholy. Under the motif of “being in-between”, the collective is interested in a concept of melancholy that does not want everything or nothing, but makes facets and shifts visible and describable. And which, not least, brings into view the remarkable relay race of this elusive but very poignant emotion in the prism of various disciplines such as philosophy, art, aesthetics, sociology, pop culture, psychology, medicine and theology.

As part of the program of SOLO² the go plastic company will share its current state of work on its new production 2023, which will have its world premiere in November 2023. Anyone interested is quite welcome to attend our performative permanent installation at the villa/wigman.

Cast & Crew

go plastic company

Information

Date: October 22, 2023 / 11:00 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Venue: villa\wigman, Bautzner Str. 107, 01099 Dresden
Language: German & English
Duration: approx. 30 minutes

Day tickets:
10 Euro / 8 Euro (reduced fee)
Children up to 12 years have free entry

Reservations:
reservierung@villawigman.de

MELANCHOLIC MARATHON, a production of go plastic company in co-production with LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Leipzig, HELLERAU – European Centre for the Rats Dresden and EinTanzHaus, Mannheim. Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK co-production support dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon State Parliament. Funded by the Office for Culture and Monument Protection as part of the institutional funding of the state capital Dresden. With the kind support of TENZA, audioscript, TELUX Hafenstube Weißwasser and TanzNetzDresden.

>>>> ASPHALT WELTEN APP

COME OUT AND PLAY. THE CITY IS YOURS.

Fountains become your stage, walkways your playground and parks turn into your individual creative laboratory.

With your smartphone and the ASPHALTWELTEN app, you can discover how much playground there is in your surroundings and how much creativity you have inside of yourself. Experience how your view of your city changes when you spend time in and with it intensively and without distraction. Let yourself be challenged again and again. Every day.

How the app works

The ASPHALTWELTEN app invites you once a day to a small challenge in public space. By using video, photo, text or speech, you are called to complete a task and document it with one of the tools offered within the app. You don’t need any previous knowledge or skills for this. A smartphone, a lot of curiosity and a little creativity are all you need.

More about the ASPHALTWELTEN app can be found here.

The ASPHALTWELTEN app is free of charge, was released on July 5, 2023 and is available at Google Play Store and in the Mac App Store.

Crew

Artistic direction & Content / Concept: Cindy Hammer & Susan Schubert

Programming / Technical development: Ralf Michael

Art Work / Design: Stephan Tautz, Dominik Glöß, Stefanie Niechciol

Project management: Marita Matzk, Conrad Schneider

Distribution / Acquisition: Dirk Förster

Legal advice: Spirit Legal

PR: Thomas Natzschka

Social Media: Lea Schweinfurth

Funding

Funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, tanz:digital assistance programme of the German Dance Association.

This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon State Parliament.

>>>>> #savethedate 2023

• ASPHALT LAB & ASPHALTSTUDIEN performance at DAVE 2023 • October 7, 2023 • ZENTRALWERK • Dresden

• MELANCHOLIC MARATHON – performative permanent installation at SOL O² • October 22, 2023 • villa/wigman • Dresden

• MELANCHOLIC MARATHON (premiere) • November 2023 • LOFFT – Das Theater • Leipzig

>>>>>> ASPHALT WELTEN

asphaltwelten.goplasticcompany.de

>>>>>>> ASPHALT WELTEN-APP

goplasticcompany.de/asphaltwelten-app