One evening, two choreographies.

The young energy of the Mind and Dance students meets the artistic input of two guest choreographers. For five weeks, they create the double bill evening ARMADA together with the students in artistic freedom.

For this year's ARMADA edition, the M.A.D. invites choreographer Karolin Stächele (Freiburg) and choreographer Max Levy (USA/JP) to develop two world premieres with selected dance students.

Participants:

Choreography: Karolin Stächele, Max Levy

Performance: Mind and Dance students

Production: Mind and Dance, Francesca Imoda

In music, etudes are exercise compositions: Pieces used to develop techniques. They form the basis for unusual approaches to an instrument and broaden the horizons of artistry. In an atmospheric expedition, five dancers study their bodies as instruments and get to the bottom of the process of study itself. With great sensitivity, they examine the dedication and effort involved in practicing and repeating before new paths can open up. Piece by piece, the dancers transform their movement sequences and the space. The everyday practice of practicing and moving on, of routine and innovation, thus becomes a poetic metaphor for the meaning and purpose to which we dedicate the journey of our lives.

Concept, Choreography, Video & Sound Editing: Max Levy
Composition: John Kameel Farah
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy Caroline: Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: John Ross
Production Assistant: Julia Rilling

In music, etudes are exercise compositions: Pieces used to develop techniques. They form the basis for unusual approaches to an instrument and broaden the horizons of artistry. In an atmospheric expedition, five dancers study their bodies as instruments and get to the bottom of the process of study itself. With great sensitivity, they examine the dedication and effort involved in practicing and repeating before new paths can open up. Piece by piece, the dancers transform their movement sequences and the space. The everyday practice of practicing and moving on, of routine and innovation, thus becomes a poetic metaphor for the meaning and purpose to which we dedicate the journey of our lives.

Concept, Choreography, Video & Sound Editing: Max Levy
Composition: John Kameel Farah
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy Caroline: Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: John Ross
Production Assistant: Julia Rilling

Contemporary workshop for all-levels taking place in Frankfurt.

The class is an invitation for amateur and non-professional dancers to engage in their body, to become aware of the layers of physical possibilities. No dance training is required; only curiosity and a desire to move. The class will focus on tasks developed and researched by Max for his various choreographic projects, working with minimalism and spontaneity, physicality and structure. Think, then move. Then think less, and just listen to the body. Working with everyday concepts, let's come together to see how our bodies answer each other!

In music, etudes are exercise compositions: Pieces used to develop techniques. They form the basis for unusual approaches to an instrument and broaden the horizons of artistry. In an atmospheric expedition, five dancers study their bodies as instruments and get to the bottom of the process of study itself. With great sensitivity, they examine the dedication and effort involved in practicing and repeating before new paths can open up. Piece by piece, the dancers transform their movement sequences and the space. The everyday practice of practicing and moving on, of routine and innovation, thus becomes a poetic metaphor for the meaning and purpose to which we dedicate the journey of our lives.

Concept, Choreography, Video & Sound Editing: Max Levy
Composition: John Kameel Farah
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy Caroline: Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: John Ross
Production Assistant: Julia Rilling

Contemporary workshop for all-levels taking place in Frankfurt.

The class is an invitation for amateur and non-professional dancers to engage in their body, to become aware of the layers of physical possibilities. No dance training is required; only curiosity and a desire to move. The class will focus on tasks developed and researched by Max for his various choreographic projects, working with minimalism and spontaneity, physicality and structure. Think, then move. Then think less, and just listen to the body. Working with everyday concepts, let's come together to see how our bodies answer each other!

In music, etudes are exercise compositions: Pieces used to develop techniques. They form the basis for unusual approaches to an instrument and broaden the horizons of artistry. In an atmospheric expedition, five dancers study their bodies as instruments and get to the bottom of the process of study itself. With great sensitivity, they examine the dedication and effort involved in practicing and repeating before new paths can open up. Piece by piece, the dancers transform their movement sequences and the space. The everyday practice of practicing and moving on, of routine and innovation, thus becomes a poetic metaphor for the meaning and purpose to which we dedicate the journey of our lives.

Concept, Choreography, Video & Sound Editing: Max Levy
Composition: John Kameel Farah
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy Caroline: Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: John Ross
Production Assistant: Julia Rilling

Contemporary workshop for all-levels taking place in Wiesbaden.

The class is an invitation for amateur and non-professional dancers to engage in their body, to become aware of the layers of physical possibilities. No dance training is required; only curiosity and a desire to move. The class will focus on tasks developed and researched by Max for his various choreographic projects, working with minimalism and spontaneity, physicality and structure. Think, then move. Then think less, and just listen to the body. Working with everyday concepts, let's come together to see how our bodies answer each other!

In music, etudes are exercise compositions: Pieces used to develop techniques. They form the basis for unusual approaches to an instrument and broaden the horizons of artistry. In an atmospheric expedition, five dancers study their bodies as instruments and get to the bottom of the process of study itself. With great sensitivity, they examine the dedication and effort involved in practicing and repeating before new paths can open up. Piece by piece, the dancers transform their movement sequences and the space. The everyday practice of practicing and moving on, of routine and innovation, thus becomes a poetic metaphor for the meaning and purpose to which we dedicate the journey of our lives.

Concept, Choreography, Video & Sound Editing: Max Levy
Composition: John Kameel Farah
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy Caroline: Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: John Ross
Production Assistant: Julia Rilling

In music, etudes are exercise compositions: Pieces used to develop techniques. They form the basis for unusual approaches to an instrument and broaden the horizons of artistry. In an atmospheric expedition, five dancers study their bodies as instruments and get to the bottom of the process of study itself. With great sensitivity, they examine the dedication and effort involved in practicing and repeating before new paths can open up. Piece by piece, the dancers transform their movement sequences and the space. The everyday practice of practicing and moving on, of routine and innovation, thus becomes a poetic metaphor for the meaning and purpose to which we dedicate the journey of our lives.

Concept, Choreography, Video & Sound Editing: Max Levy
Composition: John Kameel Farah
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy Caroline: Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: John Ross
Production Assistant: Julia Rilling

In music, etudes are exercise compositions: Pieces used to develop techniques. They form the basis for unusual approaches to an instrument and broaden the horizons of artistry. In an atmospheric expedition, five dancers study their bodies as instruments and get to the bottom of the process of study itself. With great sensitivity, they examine the dedication and effort involved in practicing and repeating before new paths can open up. Piece by piece, the dancers transform their movement sequences and the space. The everyday practice of practicing and moving on, of routine and innovation, thus becomes a poetic metaphor for the meaning and purpose to which we dedicate the journey of our lives.

Concept, Choreography, Video & Sound Editing: Max Levy
Composition: John Kameel Farah
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy Caroline: Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: John Ross
Production Assistant: Julia Rilling

In music, etudes are exercise compositions: Pieces used to develop techniques. They form the basis for unusual approaches to an instrument and broaden the horizons of artistry. In an atmospheric expedition, five dancers study their bodies as instruments and get to the bottom of the process of study itself. With great sensitivity, they examine the dedication and effort involved in practicing and repeating before new paths can open up. Piece by piece, the dancers transform their movement sequences and the space. The everyday practice of practicing and moving on, of routine and innovation, thus becomes a poetic metaphor for the meaning and purpose to which we dedicate the journey of our lives.

Concept, Choreography, Video & Sound Editing: Max Levy
Composition: John Kameel Farah
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy Caroline: Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: John Ross
Production Assistant: Julia Rilling

In music, etudes are exercise compositions: Pieces used to develop techniques. They form the basis for unusual approaches to an instrument and broaden the horizons of artistry. In an atmospheric expedition, five dancers study their bodies as instruments and get to the bottom of the process of study itself. With great sensitivity, they examine the dedication and effort involved in practicing and repeating before new paths can open up. Piece by piece, the dancers transform their movement sequences and the space. The everyday practice of practicing and moving on, of routine and innovation, thus becomes a poetic metaphor for the meaning and purpose to which we dedicate the journey of our lives.

Concept, Choreography, Video & Sound Editing: Max Levy
Composition: John Kameel Farah
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy Caroline: Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: John Ross
Production Assistant: Julia Rilling

Showing of Temporal Spaces, a choreogaphic spatial installation in collaboration with COSA MENTALE at CNDB/CINETic in Bucharest, Romania.

https://cndb.ro/en/new_events/temporal-spaces/?calendar=true&inst=1

Max Levy Choreographic Works and Cosa Mentale invite you to Temporal Spaces, a multimedia dance installation about self-witness; to explore one's body through the fragility of space, memory, senselessness and narrative.

Balancing the peace between too much noise and too much silence, this audiovisual experience focuses on the seen, the unseen, the heard, and the lost, guiding one's curiosity to reveal the nuances of selectivity in: How do we compose ourselves through the preciousness of simplicity and chaos? What do we move, and what moves us? When we begin, how do we begin? Will we find the clarity to stop? And when will we decide to begin anew?

Partnered with an AI-driven body and pattern recognition system, gaps in the infallibility of technology peek through. Inaccuracies and misnomers become part of our scrutiny on perception and exactitude. Sequences emerge as our bodies and actions are recognized and reorganized, our pasts misremembered, replayed and disintegrated. As the AI's ambiguous methods paint a patterned matrix, we wonder if the narratives of our own pasts are any less fabricated. As we reframe our histories with each new experience, are we remembering the right choices? Will we ever remember, or be remembered, for the things that mattered most to us?

Film screening of A Song Without Words as part of Vision:danceable #3 at Societaetstheater Dresden.

In issue #3, the ABOUT BLANK Collective and the 4rooms Company are once again bringing current artistic positions from the local independent dance scene to the stage. In short formats and free from thematic constraints, they want to share the diversity of contemporary dance with you. At the same time, the local scene is offered a platform for exchange and networking. We warmly invite all dance enthusiasts and curious people!

Showing of Temporal Spaces, a choreogaphic spatial installation in collaboration with COSA MENTALE at Trafo in Budapest, Hungary.

https://trafo.hu/en/programs/tanc_modina_spaces

Max Levy Choreographic Works and Cosa Mentale invite you to Temporal Spaces, a multimedia dance installation about self-witness; to explore one's body through the fragility of space, memory, senselessness and narrative.

Balancing the peace between too much noise and too much silence, this audiovisual experience focuses on the seen, the unseen, the heard, and the lost, guiding one's curiosity to reveal the nuances of selectivity in: How do we compose ourselves through the preciousness of simplicity and chaos? What do we move, and what moves us? When we begin, how do we begin? Will we find the clarity to stop? And when will we decide to begin anew?

Partnered with an AI-driven body and pattern recognition system, gaps in the infallibility of technology peek through. Inaccuracies and misnomers become part of our scrutiny on perception and exactitude. Sequences emerge as our bodies and actions are recognized and reorganized, our pasts misremembered, replayed and disintegrated. As the AI's ambiguous methods paint a patterned matrix, we wonder if the narratives of our own pasts are any less fabricated. As we reframe our histories with each new experience, are we remembering the right choices? Will we ever remember, or be remembered, for the things that mattered most to us?

Showing of Temporal Spaces, a choreogaphic spatial installation in collaboration with COSA MENTALE at tanzhaus nrw

https://tanzhaus-nrw.de/de/veranstaltung/2024/10/temporal-spaces

Max Levy Choreographic Works and Cosa Mentale invite you to Temporal Spaces, a multimedia dance installation about self-witness; to explore one's body through the fragility of space, memory, senselessness and narrative.

Balancing the peace between too much noise and too much silence, this audiovisual experience focuses on the seen, the unseen, the heard, and the lost, guiding one's curiosity to reveal the nuances of selectivity in: How do we compose ourselves through the preciousness of simplicity and chaos? What do we move, and what moves us? When we begin, how do we begin? Will we find the clarity to stop? And when will we decide to begin anew?

Partnered with an AI-driven body and pattern recognition system, gaps in the infallibility of technology peek through. Inaccuracies and misnomers become part of our scrutiny on perception and exactitude. Sequences emerge as our bodies and actions are recognized and reorganized, our pasts misremembered, replayed and disintegrated. As the AI's ambiguous methods paint a patterned matrix, we wonder if the narratives of our own pasts are any less fabricated. As we reframe our histories with each new experience, are we remembering the right choices? Will we ever remember, or be remembered, for the things that mattered most to us?

Showing of Temporal Spaces, a choreogaphic spatial installation in collaboration with COSA MENTALE at tanzhaus nrw

https://tanzhaus-nrw.de/de/veranstaltung/2024/10/temporal-spaces

Max Levy Choreographic Works and Cosa Mentale invite you to Temporal Spaces, a multimedia dance installation about self-witness; to explore one's body through the fragility of space, memory, senselessness and narrative.

Balancing the peace between too much noise and too much silence, this audiovisual experience focuses on the seen, the unseen, the heard, and the lost, guiding one's curiosity to reveal the nuances of selectivity in: How do we compose ourselves through the preciousness of simplicity and chaos? What do we move, and what moves us? When we begin, how do we begin? Will we find the clarity to stop? And when will we decide to begin anew?

Partnered with an AI-driven body and pattern recognition system, gaps in the infallibility of technology peek through. Inaccuracies and misnomers become part of our scrutiny on perception and exactitude. Sequences emerge as our bodies and actions are recognized and reorganized, our pasts misremembered, replayed and disintegrated. As the AI's ambiguous methods paint a patterned matrix, we wonder if the narratives of our own pasts are any less fabricated. As we reframe our histories with each new experience, are we remembering the right choices? Will we ever remember, or be remembered, for the things that mattered most to us?

Inspired by the work of biologist Lynn Margulis on the concept of Symbiosis and her understanding of the human body as a Holobiont (an ecosystem where human cells cohabit with multiple other life forms), this performance explores what it means to experience ourselves, our bodies as not strictly human but as a community of interrelated and interdependent organisms, cohabiting and inter-reacting with one another, providing for each other, living together. This work offers a listening to micro places in our bodies and the diversity within them, taking us out of a binary and reductive regime, cultivating a different sense of ourselves and the environment we are part of. In this co-being exercise, various elements and living organisms are invited as guides, to learn from and to be formed by. Together with these other-than-human partners bodies are combined and recombined in order to reveal what takes place within us, how the merging of various entities has invented us and how we can learn what it means to create together.

04.10.2024 - 20:00
05.10.2024 - 20:00

https://theaterimdepot.de/en/programm/kalender/embodying-bodies

Inspired by the work of biologist Lynn Margulis on the concept of Symbiosis and her understanding of the human body as a Holobiont (an ecosystem where human cells cohabit with multiple other life forms), this performance explores what it means to experience ourselves, our bodies as not strictly human but as a community of interrelated and interdependent organisms, cohabiting and inter-reacting with one another, providing for each other, living together. This work offers a listening to micro places in our bodies and the diversity within them, taking us out of a binary and reductive regime, cultivating a different sense of ourselves and the environment we are part of. In this co-being exercise, various elements and living organisms are invited as guides, to learn from and to be formed by. Together with these other-than-human partners bodies are combined and recombined in order to reveal what takes place within us, how the merging of various entities has invented us and how we can learn what it means to create together.

04.10.2024 - 20:00
05.10.2024 - 20:00

https://theaterimdepot.de/en/programm/kalender/embodying-bodies

Contemporary workshop for all-levels taking place in Darmstadt.

The class is an invitation for amateur and non-professional dancers to engage in their body, to become aware of the layers of physical possibilities. No dance training is required; only curiosity and a desire to move. The class will focus on tasks developed and researched by Max for his various choreographic projects, working with minimalism and spontaneity, physicality and structure. Think, then move. Then think less, and just listen to the body. Working with everyday concepts, let's come together to see how our bodies answer each other!

Tanzhaus temporär Nº11

Architecture of time - the eternal relationship
05.- 08.09.2024
Curated by Deborah Smith-Wicke

Tanzhaus temporär N° 11 by tanz*werk kassel deals with the architecture of time. We experience space and time in dance, in movement. As we move through space, time passes, distance passes, the body ages. Time is not measured time. Time IS. Space: is a container for matter, is architectural space, is social space for interaction, is geographical space, is virtual space, is expansion.

The passing of time becomes visible in change. The life of bodies and things is not "durable", it is in constant flux. We do not achieve inner freedom by holding on to material things, but by becoming aware of time. Being in time, in the moment. Are we confronting finiteness or infinity?

The performances of Tanzhaus temporär N° 11 deal with the relationship between space and time on a spiritual, psychological, mathematical and musical level.

On Saturday, you can physically experience Levy's work in a two-hour workshop.

Tanzhaus temporär Nº11

Architecture of time - the eternal relationship
05.- 08.09.2024
Curated by Deborah Smith-Wicke

Tanzhaus temporär N° 11 by tanz*werk kassel deals with the architecture of time. We experience space and time in dance, in movement. As we move through space, time passes, distance passes, the body ages. Time is not measured time. Time IS. Space: is a container for matter, is architectural space, is social space for interaction, is geographical space, is virtual space, is expansion.

The passing of time becomes visible in change. The life of bodies and things is not "durable", it is in constant flux. We do not achieve inner freedom by holding on to material things, but by becoming aware of time. Being in time, in the moment. Are we confronting finiteness or infinity?

The performances of Tanzhaus temporär N° 11 deal with the relationship between space and time on a spiritual, psychological, mathematical and musical level.

On Friday, September 6, choreographer Max Levy will present his dance short film A Song Without Words. This will be followed by the trio Clepsydra, choreographed by Max Levy.

Comission for Theater Nordhausen, Sketches of Atmosphere, as part of their mixed-bill evening, Drei!

Premier: May 17, 2024

Comission for Theater Nordhausen, Sketches of Atmosphere, as part of their mixed-bill evening, Drei!

Premier: May 17, 2024

Showing of Temporal Spaces, a choreogaphic spatial installation in collaboration with COSA MENTALE.

https://www.stl.ee/lisaprogramm/residentuurid/modina-temporal-spaces

Max Levy Choreographic Works and Cosa Mentale invite you to Temporal Spaces, a multimedia dance installation about self-witness; to explore one's body through the fragility of space, memory, senselessness and narrative.

Balancing the peace between too much noise and too much silence, this audiovisual experience focuses on the seen, the unseen, the heard, and the lost, guiding one's curiosity to reveal the nuances of selectivity in: How do we compose ourselves through the preciousness of simplicity and chaos? What do we move, and what moves us? When we begin, how do we begin? Will we find the clarity to stop? And when will we decide to begin anew?

Partnered with an AI-driven body and pattern recognition system, gaps in the infallibility of technology peek through. Inaccuracies and misnomers become part of our scrutiny on perception and exactitude. Sequences emerge as our bodies and actions are recognized and reorganized, our pasts misremembered, replayed and disintegrated. As the AI's ambiguous methods paint a patterned matrix, we wonder if the narratives of our own pasts are any less fabricated. As we reframe our histories with each new experience, are we remembering the right choices? Will we ever remember, or be remembered, for the things that mattered most to us?