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James Batchelor & Collaborators

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Tickets for morning performances can be requested via the inquiry button/reservation form. Morning performances are especially suitable for schools, but also for daycare centers, kindergartens, and other care, educational, and leisure institutions. €4 per child/youth, accompanying adults have free admission. An additional workshop booking in connection with a morning performance is possible for an extra €2 per person.

In einer Sporthalle mit blauen, großen Turnmatten und einem Basketballkorb im Hintergrund befindet sich eine Gruppe von fünf Personen. In der Mitte steht eine erwachsene Person in Jeans und lockerem Hemd, die ihre beiden Arme gerade zur Seite ausstreckt. Um die Person herum befinden sich vier Kinder, die im Kreis um sie laufen. Eines der Kinder greift mit beiden Armen nach dem Arm der erwachsenen Person. Die Kinder lächeln.
Eine erwachsene Person in Jeans und lockerem Hemd befindet sich in einer Sporthalle mit blauen Turnmatten und einer Sprossenwand im Hintergrund. Sie macht einen leichten Ausfallschritt, während sie ihre beiden Arme zur rechten Seite ausstreckt und den Kopf seitlich kippt. Beide Hände hängen entspannt nach unten.

A polyphonic solo: Notes of Self is an intimate mixture of intellect and emotion, opening new approaches to dance, for children and grown-ups simultaneously. Playful, surprising, and full of movement, the choreography is aimed at a young audience, among them also those who have maybe never set foot in a theatre before, and it invites grown-ups to a new dialogue with the radical spirit of expressive dance.
The work takes inspiration from Batchelor’s research into the diasporic history of expressive dance in Australia and his current commitment for children as part of the LUNA PARK intiative in Berlin. Centuries-old avant-garde tradition meets children’s spontaneous movements and creates a performance that is as historically aware as it is contemporaneous.
Children’s perspectives do not only inform the movements but also the dramaturgy – what they perceive, what fascinates them, what they remember. The result is a solo that becomes a dialogue between generations, bodies, and perspectives.

The performance addresses an all-ages audience and welcomes both experienced dance enthusiasts as well as newcomers who are invited to find themselves in the performance’s energy and imagination.

Duration: approx. 40 mins.
Ages 5 and up.

A production by James Batchelor and Collaborators, co-produced with Sophiensæle. Funded by the Performing Arts Fund from resources provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Co-produced by the LUNA PARK e.V. initiative as part of the LUNAPARK.Residency Grants programme, curated by the initiative’s artistic director, Kosmas Kosmopoulos. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Notes of Self is supported as part of the ‘take-off: Junger Tanz Düsseldorf’ programme, funded by the City of Düsseldorf, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the RWE Foundation and the PwC Foundation.

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  • Title
    Notes of Self
  • Artist
    James Batchelor & Collaborators
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