Collaborations

Harness — Amsterdam Fringe Festival

Knot Aplicable- Harness
Knot Aplicable- Harness

I am in Amsterdam! For the next week, I will be performing in the Amsterdam Fringe Festival, and teaching workshops. Sophie Fetokaki invited me to create and perform with her a live art / performance art / installation work called Harness, also with Vera Goetzee and Mei-yi Lee. We’re performing at Oostblok, Sajetplein, this weekend and early next week. All the details below!

Also I’ll be teaching shibari workshops while I’m in Amsterdam, email me for details, and check back here for more info.

Harness

Knot Applicable

Rope. Voice. Body. Percussion. These are the four elements of Harness, a work bringing together the music of John Cage and the Japanese rope-tying art of Shibari into one immersive performance art work, exploring the dynamics of tension and release; silence and sound; movement, stillness and duration.

Harness raises all sorts of questions, about trust and spectatorship, about consent and power, about beauty and desire. But most of all, it invites the audience to come along for the ride, to travel through the duration of the performance, to permit and explore the inevitable flux of responses; to dive into a deeply dynamic experience of slow, patient transformation.

About the artists

Sophie Fetokaki: voice, artistic direction
Dasniya Sommer: shibari artist
Vera Goetzee: dancer, model
Mei-yi Lee: percussion
Petyr Veenstra: light & technics

Where & When

Fri 2nd, Sat 3rd, Mon 5th, Tues 6th September, 2016
Fri & Mon: 21:00
Sat & Tues: 18:30
Tickets: €7,00
Oostblok, Sajetplein, Amsterdam
Amsterdam Fringe Festival

Teufelsberg

Second trip to Teufelsberg: Tamandua tying my body in a planty tunnel. Melting and twisting me into nature. Whilst being pulled from both ends another friend rescued me from time to time. Tourists chattering by my ear, but mostly  didn’t see us behind the thicket.

Tying: Tamandua
Photos: The Moose
© SommerProductions

Performance: ‘This Poem is not a Panic’

this poem is not a panic
this poem is not a panic

This Saturday night in Mitte:
My friend Virginia Barratt from Australia is in Berlin, and together with her Frances d’ Ath and Neha Spellfish, we have a show at Kunsthaus KuLe.

‘This Poem is not a Panic’ 

chaotic lines unspeaking sense in a sonic field of deep data and hammering silence, chaotic lines tying dissociated limbs as speech becomes gesture dressed in corpse paint. let’s be self conscious, awkward and embarrassing, let’s make angst from speech and produce a humorous balm from the awful. laugh cry laugh laugh cry. the ocean is an ocean of tears. the wind is many sighs. creep around the uncomfortable, making monsters out of reason.

neha spellfish: sonics
virginia barratt: performative crying
dasniya sommer: creeping butoh corpse and rope
frances d’ath: black metal bedroom
schnucki rennpferd: bondsman

Saturday July 9th, 2016
10.30 pm -1 am
Kule e.V.
Auguststraße 10
10117 Berlin
Germany

Staging Shibari: performance and pregnancy

Staging Shibari - by Institute Sommer
Staging Shibari - by Institute Sommer

We still have free places in the up-coming staging shibari workshop. The evening is organised as photo shooting and revolves around a pregnant protagonist this time. If this topic from a rope (-performance) view is interesting to you, or if you want to make a life-music contribution in the background please let us know. Extras and a peaceful audience is also welcome!

When: Friday, July 1st
Hours: 19 – 23h
Where: Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt – Aufgang B, Uferstrasse 8
Costs: 40 €
Questions to: workshops@dasniyasommer.de

Inside ropes

Nice how things return. After being on the rigging side for so many years, I enjoyed being solidly tied yesterday. Or is it actually the first time? ..its different from before somehow. The bamboo gave me a slightly torturous strech. But all in all it was a great tie. Thanks Tam for this nice moment and beautiful rope work!