If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of the world;
if you want to reassure yourself that there is a spring and flowering trees on earth;
if you want to get closer to the stars, go to the island of tranquillity. (Santiago Rusiñol ‘Mallorca, the Island of Tranquillity’ 1912)

 

While researching mass tourism, Christina Ciupke and Darko Dragičević experienced first-hand how some of its most monumental European places function today. One of them was on Mallorca where the number of tourists exceeded 16 million in 2023. At the height of the tourist season, they booked an all-inclusive package deal at a typical hotel beach in Mallorca, more precisely on the part of the island known as Ballermann. The performance is inspired by their accumulated experiences, the complexities of mass tourism, and the fatal connections between pleasure and the consequences of this kind of travel. Since 2018, Christina Ciupke and Darko Dragičević have been continuously developing specific collaborative projects such as "Take me somewhere nice", "Silent Trio", "Lie & Theft as Practice" and "Failure as Practice". The artists combine their practices in the fields of choreography, dance, performance, visual arts and film in a complementary way. The spectra of their individual abilities in thinking, contextualization and movement practice merge into new performative formats.

More informationen on the project website: Take me somewhere nice

22.02.2024 - 20:30 Premiere at Uferstudios, Studio 14 Tanzfabrik Berlin 

23.02. and 24.02.2024 - 20:30 as well as 25.02.2024 - 16:00 Further Performances at Uferstudios, Studio 14 Tanzfabrik Berlin