Undo, Redo and Repeat – Christina Ciupke and Anna Till
Room Dances Festival 2014
The project Undo, Redo and Repeat investigates works by five choreographs: Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss, Dore Hoyer, Pina Bausch and William Forsythe, all of whom had a significant influence on the history of German dance. The artists are attuned to physical impressions, experiences and internalization – how is dance knowledge transferred from one person to the next? From one generation to the next? How does style stay alive? How does memory travel from one body-memory to the next? What kind of gaps appear? How much space is there for new influences? And how does the past link itself to the present?
Created and performed by Christina Ciupke and Anna Till
Dramaturgy: Igor Dobricic
Production: Barbara Greiner
Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag.
Christina Ciupke is a Berlin based dancer and choreographer, performing her works throughout Europe. Since 1999 she has been developing and creating projects in collaboration with various artists: choreographs Nik Haffner and Mart Kangro, filmmaker Lucy Cash, visual artist Lars ø Ramberg, composer Boris Hauf and dramaturge Igor Dobricic. In 2003-2004 she was guest artist at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. In 2013 she received her MA of Choreography from the Amsterdam School of the Arts.
Anna Till is a dancer and choreographer based in Dresden and Berlin. In 2007-2012 she studied Contemporary Dance, Context and Choreography at the HZT Berlin and Cultural Theory at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. In 2012 she received a grant from Danceweb in Vienna, and a young artist grant from Goethe-Institute in Germany. In 2013 she developed the pedagogical program for the exhibition “Dance! Moves that Move Us” in the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden, and curated the performance program for the “Lines/Lines” exhibition in Kunsthaus Dresden.
