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November - December 2024
The performer and choreographer Hana Umeda researched her new project "Revival" together with the dancer and choreographer Masha Shalagina and the performer and dancer Andrii Romanenko in HELLERAU.
If a performance were a being - what kind of body would it have? How would it move, feel or think? The artists want to use their encounter to create a new organism that can be constructed from their bodies, the space, the sound and everything else they bring into their practice. The central idea of the research is collectivity; they are experimenting with establishing a unity that can go beyond their human bodies.
As part of "Tanzformen - Empowering Bodies", artists are in residence at HELLERAU. In a joint open studio on 5 December, they gave insights into their respective research.
Biography Hana Umeda
Photo: Caroline Grzelak
Hana Umeda, a performer and choreographer of Japanese-Jewish origin, bases her work on 18 years of Jiutamai dance and was accepted into the "Hanasaki-ryu" family in 2020. She combines documentary and autobiographical formats with theoretical research, thematising socio-political issues. she made her debut in 2018 with "SadaYakko" at Komuna Warszawa, followed by "Faithless" in Szczecin in 2022. She was nominated for the VR experience "Close" at the "IDFA DocLab" in 2023 and presented "Rapeflower" at "Komuna Warszawa" in 2024.
Biography Masha Shalagina
Masha Shalagina is a Russian dancer and choreographer based in Berlin who explores body-based practices as a form of alternative communication. She left Russia in 2021 due to political persecution and has since combined artistic and activist approaches, including projects on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her works have been presented at the "ImpulsTanz" festival and the "PLAY!Berlin Festival", among others, and she received the "DanceWEB" grant in 2023.
Biography Andrii Romanenko
Andrii Romanenko is a dance and performance artist from Yalta, Ukraine, who has been living in exile in Europe since the occupation of Crimea in 2014. In 2022, he created his solo piece "Come Out of the Trench" about exile and absence, while at the same time realising the simultaneous performance "When All the Rules Are Set by Assholes" with Masha Shalagina in Pamplona and Yerevan. In 2023, he was accepted into the MA "SODA" programme at the Berlin University of the Arts and developed "Cold War: Friendship" at Theaterlabor Bielefeld, among others. In 2024, together with Shalagina and "PLAY! Berlin", he curated a cinema lab for Ukrainian children in Berlin.
