Last month collaborating with Sophie Fetokaki and the collective Harness. Tying Vera Goetzee (dancer) to John Cage’s Ryoanji, played by percussionist Mei-yi Lee. Looking much forward to continue!
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Performances
Bondage Workshops Helsinki
Come to the north! Next Weekend October 8+9, 2016, I and Lurian teach four workshops at the Shibari Festival Helsinki.
Thanks Julius for making this happen, and everyone for the fun time. Through us butoh and bondage came a little closer!
Amsterdam Fringe Festival
Back from crazy Amsterdam. Daily riding from Sloterdijk to Theatre Oostblok, every day it took me half an hour less :). I love their bike politics!
It was an all around flashy week, new impulses, impressions, friends. F* cool bitches to create with! ;)
“Bondage Show”
Unseren nächsten Auftritt Bondage Show machen wir beim Festival Grenzenlos Kultur in Mainz.
Performance Impulse: Silke Backofen – Schönfleisch, Dasniya Sommer und Florian Loycke
24. September 2016, 14 Uhr
Staatstheater Mainz, Glashaus
Im Rahmen des Symposion Who Cares?
Kuratiert von Astrid Kaminski und Jeremy Wade
Der zukünftige Körper: ein hochfunktionales, interaktives System. Perfekt? Auf jeden Fall verwundbar. Denn je besser wir funktionieren (wollen), desto größer werden auch die gegenseitigen Abhängigkeiten.
Wie gestalten wir dieses Verhältnis? Menschen mit Behinderungen sowie generell Menschen mit hohem Hilfsbedarf stehen oft in einem komplizierten Abhängigkeitsverhältnis – zu Hilfsmitteln, Sozialleistungen, Assistenzen, Therapien, Vormündern. Mehr Info
Harness — Amsterdam Fringe Festival
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
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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
Garbicz Festival
Starting to work with Frieder Weiss.
Eat more Bondage – Short film evening
This is an event by strangesavagelives.
Lets meet there tomorrow:
Thursday 28, August
Starting time 8pm (Frances performs an excerpt from ‘Black Metal’ at 8.45h)
In: Autoteile Kino, Yorckstrasse 70
Performance: ‘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
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