THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER
Image: Dora Đurkesac/Pictures: Dieter Hartwig
IN THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER, THE MEXICAN CHOREOGRAPHER IXCHEL MENDOZA HERNÁNDEZ EXPLORES A BODY IN CONSTANT FLUX, EMBODYING THE ALTERITY WITHIN, REFLECTING UPON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OTHER AND SELF. INSIDE A SCI-FI SENSUOUS INSTALLATION SPACE MIXING SCULPTURES, LIGHT, SOUND AND AR OBJECTS, THE BODY SHIFTS BETWEEN AMBIGUITY AND CLARITY: A BODY SEARCHING FOR TRANSFORMATION, SEEKING TO ESCAPE AND BLUR DEFINITIONS TO CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO. BY PROVOKING A CONTEMPLATIVE SPACE, THE OBSERVER'S SENSES GET ACTIVATED. WHAT ARE THE IDENTITY POSITIONS THAT EMERGE? WHAT IF THE OTHER AND SELF COULD BLEND INTO ONE(S)? INSIDE A SELF(MIRRORED) OBSERVATION, THE DISTINCTION OF THE OTHER-SELF BECOMES INSPECTED, QUESTIONED, AND MULTIPLIED.
Concept, Choreography, Text and Performance: Ixchel Mendoza Hernández | Composition, Sound Installation: Hyewon Suk | Light, Light Installation: Annegret Schalke | Sculptures, Set and Visual Design: Dora Đurkesac | Creative Technologist: Warja Rybakova | AR Installation: Dora Đurkesac & Warja Rybakova | Costume: Malena Mondéer | Outside eye: Christina Themeli, Elpida Orfanidou & Anna Weißenfels |
THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER is a production by Ixchel Mendoza Hernández in co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin | Supported by Fonds Darstellende Der Künste #Take Care with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR (2021) | Residency partner Tanzhaus Zürich and Tanzfabrik Berlin (2021) | Further research was made under the project “Through our gaze” supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste, and “Under your Gaze” supported by Distanz-Solo with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR (2023) | Residency partner Radialsystem and Tanzfabrik Berlin (2023) |
Premiere: November 2023 Berlin, Germany
TRAILER (TANZFORUM BERLIN)
Concept, Choreography, Text and Performance: Ixchel Mendoza Hernández | Composition, Sound Installation: Hyewon Suk | Light, Light Installation: Annegret Schalke | Sculptures, Set and Visual Design: Dora Đurkesac | Creative Technologist: Warja Rybakova | AR Installation: Dora Đurkesac & Warja Rybakova | Costume: Malena Mondéer | Outside eye: Christina Themeli, Elpida Orfanidou & Anna Weißenfels |
THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER is a production by Ixchel Mendoza Hernández in co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin | Supported by Fonds Darstellende Der Künste #Take Care with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR (2021) | Residency partner Tanzhaus Zürich and Tanzfabrik Berlin (2021) | Further research was made under the project “Through our gaze” supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste, and “Under your Gaze” supported by Distanz-Solo with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR (2023) | Residency partner Radialsystem and Tanzfabrik Berlin (2023) |
Premiere: November 2023 Berlin, Germany
TRAILER (TANZFORUM BERLIN)
TEASER: CHRISTIANE SCHNIEBEL