Silent Trio
by Christina Ciupke and Darko Dragičević
Chapter#1: Gallery of Growth and Decay, Installation
Chapter#2 with Alan Cunningham, Videoinstallation
Chapter#3: Spomenik, Audiowalk
Chapter#4: Unfinished Archives, Performance
Chapter#5: Digital Postcards, Video- and Soundchoreography
Chapter#6: In Situ, Guerilla Actions, Interventions in Public Space
The project Silent Trio is the first extensive collaboration between choreographer Christina Ciupke and visual and performance artist Darko Dragičević. From the perspective of their artistic working methods, they deal with the interrelation between nature and man-made objects. The two artists inscribe body and perception into these interrelations. In addition to continuous movement research, they research and collect different manifestations of objects - natural and man-made, static and changing. By doing so they enter a field of tension that is increasingly out of balance in times of political and ecological precariousness. The resulting disruptions, different states of growth and decay, shifts and cracks become their focus.
Silent Trio will unfold until autumn 2021 in different chapters, which will be open to the public in various formats and contexts. One chapter for example was dedicated to the impressive Spomenik monuments of ex-Yugoslavia in form of an audio walk during Tanznacht Berlin 2020 in September. In chapter #4 Unfinished Archives, which was presented during Open Spaces at Tanzfabrik Berlin, Christina and Darko opened the landscape of their growing physical research material to the audience, where they focused on different qualities of movement that are triggered by internal and external states of consciousness.
Concept, Performance, Text: Christina Ciupke and Darko Dragičević
Sound Design: Daniel Massey
Light design: Gretchen Blegen
Collaboration Text: Alan Cunnigham
Collaboration Research: Milica Naumov
Dramaturgical advice: Silke Bake
Production Managment: Barbara Greiner
A production by A lot of body GbR in coproduction with Tanzfabrik Berlin
Funded by Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa and Hauptstadtkulturfonds
Supported by apap-Performing Europe 2020, co-financed by Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
13 February 2020, Chapter#1: Gallery of Growth and Decay, Installation, AULA im Milchhof
10 October 2020, Chapter#2 with Alan Cunningham, Videoinstallation, 10 year anniversary Uferstudios Berlin
11 and 12 September 2020, Chapter#3: Spomenik, Audiowalk, Tanznacht Berlin
23 - 25 October 2020, Chapter#4: Unfinished Archives, Performance, Tanzfabrik Berlin
23 and 24 November 2020, Chapter#5: Digital Postcards, Video- und Soundchoreography, Montag Modus
19. April - 25. June 2021, Chapter#6: in situ, Guerilla Actions, Interventions in Public Space
10. - 30. May 2021, StationOne Residency, Stanica/Station – Service for Contemporary Dance Belgrade
26. June - 11. July 2021, Residency, Workshop and Presentation: Displaced bodies, displaced objects, LOKOMOTIVA, Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, Skopje
02. and 03. October 2021, Chapter#3: Spomenik, Audiowalk, Tanzfabrik Berlin