BACKWORDS 8
ARTIST Martha Hincapié Charry (COL)
Backward is a relative direction. The most common relative directions are left, right, forward(s), backward(s), up, and down. No absolute direction corresponds to any of the relative directions. This is a consequence of the translational invariance of the laws of physics: nature, loosely speaking, behaves the same no matter what direction one moves. As demonstrated by the Michelson-Morley null result, there is no absolute inertial frame of reference. There are definite relationships between the relative directions, however. Left and right, forward and backward, and up and down are three pairs of complementary directions.
Relative directions allow us to move towards life, to make choices, to relate and to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) vulnerability, mutability.
By changing directions, we fight and struggle, testifying how time relentless melt. By slicing out a moment, freezing it, we are compelled to understand that life and its phenomenon are inaccessible and that as time goes on everything vanishes. We are bones, decaying to dust.
But, are be able to walk our path again?
Creation/Performance: Martha Hincapié Charry
Dramaturgy: Davide Camplani
Martha Hincapié Charry
Studied dance in her home country Colombia and at the Folkwang University, in Essen, Germany, under the guidance of Pina Bausch.
As a dancer she worked, in Germany, for the Wuppertal Dance Theatre, the Münster State Theatre, the Schauspielhaus Bochum, and the Aachen Theatre. She worked as assistant choreographer in Community Dance projects for Royston Maldoom, Josef Eder and Rhys Martin, among others with the Berliner Philharmoniker. She founded in 2007 the colombian-german group PERIFERIC which have been invited, with her own creations, to perform in France, Croatia, Italy, Holland, Ecuador, Colombia, and Germany.
In 2010 she got the Berliner Einstiegsförderung. In 2012 created her piece “Transparente” in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2013 choreographed the theatre piece “ANGST” directed by Volker Lösch in Theater Basel, Switzerland and got the Tanzstipendium of the Berliner Senat. Martha is, since 2011, artistic director of Plataforma, Iberoamerican platform for Dance, Performance, Installation and Screen Dance in Berlin.
Davide Camplaini
Davide Camplani was born 1968 in Marone, Italy. He studier Contemporary Dance with Giulia Gussago and Claudio Gasparotto and at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, where he graduated in 1999. Among oters he has danced with the Mark Sieczkarek Company, Malou Airaudo and at the Bonn Opera. Davide took part in the film production “Arie”, 2003, directed by Gianluca Vallero as choreographer and dancer, and a s a dancer in the film production “história”, 2007, by Karsten Liske. He has worked with Sasha Waltz & Guests since 1999. Davide Camplani can be seen dancing in “Körper”, “NoBody”, “Gezeiten”, “Medea”, “Travelogue I – Twenty to eight”, “Jagden und Formen”, “Continu”, “Metamorphoses”, the opera “Matsukaze” and “Sacre du Printemps” by Sascha Waltz. “The Rest of you” by Juan Kurz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola and Luc Dunberry and “Don´t we” by Luc Dunberry. He also Took part in various “Dialoge” Projects by Sasha Waltz.
Furthermore he Works as repetiteur for Sasha Waltz & Guests, among Others in the choreographic concert “Gefaltet” by Sasha Waltz & Marc Andre, that premiered at the Mozartwoche Salzburg 2012. Since 2008 Davide directs the Children´s Dance Company of Sasha Waltz & Guests together with Mata Sakka and Gabriel Galindez Cruz. In 2009 he started working on his own project “From…to” in the framework of the support programm “Choreographen der Zukunft”. In 2012 he participated in the dance project “MusicTANZ – Carmen” as repetitor and coordinator within the education project of the Berliner Philharmoniker, where he took part in the choreographical and pedagogical Realisation of the project with over 100 pupils.
With support from Finnish Cultural Foundation, Kone Foundation and MARIMEKKO