Burn Time

André Uerba
Big Stage
Dates
28.04.2023 – 29.04.2023
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In Burn Time, delicate threads are gradually set on fire – one after the other, sometimes simultaneously, too –, whereupon a constantly transforming, illuminating, and fading space emerges. The glowing threads unfold their strong visual and suggestive powers in darkness; they are the central actors of this performance that is also a fleeting temporal installation. Hundreds of threads hang on a scaffolding structure, thus forming a dense weave which visual artist and choreographer André Uerba consistently develops anew, site-specifically.

The room’s silence, the light spots’ slow ascent and the performers’ calm movements decelerate and intensify the perception of space and time; physical boundaries dissolve. Burn Time completely unravels in the here and now.

André Uerba (*1983 in Lissabon) works at the intersection of performative and visual arts. He has been living in Berlin since 2013, where he graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) with a master’s degree in Solo/Dance/Authorship. He had previously been studying Graphic Design at the High School of Arts and Advanced Photography at the Lisbon High School of Arts.

Duration: 60 Min.

Accompanying programme
Sat 29.04. Talk after the performance

 

Concept, artistic direction: André Uerba; dramaturgical advice: Thomas Schaupp; sculptures, sound: André Uerba; lighting design: André Uerba, Gretchen Blegen.
A production of SHORT HOPE, co-produced by Walk&Talk Azores (Portugal) and PTL (Slovenia). Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, residency funding by O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal), PACT Zollverein (Essen, Germany) and Tanzfabrik (Berlin, Germany).

Sculpture / Set up team in Düsseldorf: Krischan Rothkamp, Jennifer Sánchez Alvarado, Nina Terbeck
Performers in Düsseldorf: Bernardo de Almeida, Bernice Boateng Kete, Dagmar Buchenthal, Annu Kötter, Daniel Kailer, Katrin Kurz, Doralisa Reinoso de Tafel, Sarah Uwimana, Amalia Zafeiri

Supported by the Kunststiftung NRW.

Thanks to: 1000 Klänge Düsseldorf for the kind loan of the gong; Bernardo de Almeida for the technical and artistic assistance in Düsseldorf.