Residenzkünstler

Als zweiteiliges Projekt initiiert und kuratiert von Carolin Ott, Leiterin der Disco Zwei in Mannheim, dem Tänzer und Choreografen Tobias Weikamp und der Musikerin Angie Taylor beginnt Subs_Dance am 19. Juli 2021 mit einer zweiwöchigen Residenz- und Produktionsphase, während der drei Kollektive je eine neue Arbeit entwickeln – begleitet von der künstlerischen Leitung und im Dialog sowohl miteinander als auch mit Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauern, die in offenen Proben Einblicke in die Prozesse gewinnen und zum Austausch mit den Künstler:innen eingeladen sind.

Die Arbeiten der Künstler:innen werden am 5. / 6. / 11. / 12. / 13. August im Rahmen des Festival präsentiert

Die ausgewählten Künstler:innen sind:

BLACK PEARL DE ALMEIDA LIMA
Brazil

Black Pearl de Almeida Lima is a Black Trans Feminine Brasilian/German artist started her dance training at the Studio Márcia Belarmino dança e cultura, São Paulo. In the competition Seminário international de dança de Brasília, she received a scholarship from the Birgit Keil Foundation, 2010, through which she graduated from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik & Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. She participated in the Prix de Lausanne 2012. 2013, she started at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. There she did her first creation “Ego” in the evening Choreografen Stellen Sich vor, 2015.
2016, she worked as a soloist at the Staatstheater Augsburg. In 2018, Black Pearl had a permanent engagement with the Gauthier Dance Company. Since 2020, she is a dancer for Richard Siegal/Ballet of Difference, Schauspiel Köln in the same year she entered the German Ballroom scene, walking the categoryRunway in German Ballroom. She‘s a member of the Kiki Hous of Solar.
October 2020 she Performed in a Ballroom Education event by Crystal Saint Laurent & Schauspiel Dortmund Garagen Extravaganza. Since 2021 she‘s a member of The Iconic House of Saint Laurent. Now more actively working & representing ballroom culture. She combines her classical & contemporary background with Vogue. Black Pearl is Currently Working on Her New Creation “The Space They take/Who You Follow for Kolumba Museum in cooperation with Tanz Köln & Ballet of Difference.The Covid-19 Pandemic has accentuated questions of identity, & “claiming space” has been a reaction for many communities & individuals. This work proposes a temporary continuation, that takes up the space and builds on it through the movement & dispersion of eight bodies.

LITCHI LY FRIEDRICH
Germany/Vietnam

Litchi (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, in the realms of dance, critical theory and activism. She is a member of the Iconic House of Saint Laurent, an active member of the Ballroom community & founding member of the collective With the Rubblles of Old Palaces .
Mostly focusing on New Way at the moment, she‘s gone through Hip Hop and Breaking before finding her home within Voguing & by extension Ballroom culture. Though learning from workshops within contemporary dance & other dance forms, she understands her learning & growing as a dancer to happen within community trainings & events, outside institutioned arts education. Being part of the Ballroom community, she understands her contribution as a community organiser & position in a constant push for decolonial & intersectional thinking & practicing.
This happens through working cross boundary with the community (Wedding Renaissance) & institutions (Deutsches Hygiene Museum) and within the popular media realm (Nura x Nike) for example.
Her work always involves a critical outlook to deconstruct norms, especially those who are a disservice to marginalised peoples, within academic & theoretical frameworks. Currently she is moving her focus on creative rituals, especially through dance, to uplift & celebrate the multiplicities of diasporic peoples & dwell further into her own ancestry & histories.
Born & raised in Leipzig, she‘s spent a few years in London, where she started to merge art & activism with the collective „Video Vexens“ before coming to Berlin.

KAMERON MITCHELL LOCKE
USA

Kameron Locke (he/him) is a classical singer & research-based artist who expresses what he defines as the “Facets of Blackness” through music, performance, study & community work.
Locke navigates cultural, community & academic spaces as a socially-conscious performer, educator & musicologist. As an interpreter of Western art song, he performs in recital music solely by those from the Rising Majority communities, Black, Brown & ethnically-diverse. Locke’s self-curated recital series Unseen and Unheard evolved from his research on Afro-diasporic Western classical music composers. Additionally, he is an avid chorister with his last engagement as a tenor for the London Symphony Chorus until February 2020.
He focuses on representation & equity from within these spaces & engages with creative approaches to achieve this. Locke successfully crafts opportunities for untapped communities: through his Classical Inclusion, an after-school initiative in Chicago that offered a creative approach to the arts to youth from low socioeconomic backgrounds; with The Village, a music recording workshop series for Goldsmiths University LGBTQ+ students of color & as a founder of Black Art Action Berlin (BAAB), a collective of Black artists who create community by empowering Black voices through art, collaboration & activism. Locke is dedicated to this work, creating necessary spaces & using his voice as a vehicle. His goal is for all to have equal access to & visibility in the arts.
Born & raised in Chicago, Locke recently settled in Berlin after a fulfilling stint in London.

Kelly Heelton ( Fausto Israel )
Brasilien

Fausto Israel wurde in São Paulo geboren und absolvierte seine künstlerische Ausbildung an der Univercidade de São Paulo, unter anderem bei Reynaldo Puebla. In São Paulo spielte er in Musicals wie „Die Schöne und das Biest, Saturday night fever und Fame“.
2004 entwickelte er die inzwischen weltweit bekannte Drag Queen „Kelly Heelton“, eine Rolle, in welcher Fausto Weltweit und deutschlandweit auftritt.
Im Volkstheater Frankfurt spielte er in 2012 erstmals im Musical „La Cage aux Folles“ und begeisterte 2017 das Publikum am Staatstheater Mainz und in der Oper Köln. Im Jahr zuvor spielte er im „Tipi am Kanzleramt“ in der Operette „Frau Luna“ (Paul Lincke) den Mondgroom, 2018 und 2019 spielte er im selben Stück die Göttin Venus und den Krieger Mars.
In 2020 moderiert er die Sendung „The Diva in Me“ bei TV Now (RTL Studios) und war im März 2021 Gast bei „Die tägliche Doris“ (Open-Stage Berlin in Arte.TV).

Zero Angels ( Miro Mitrovic )

Miro zählt zur ersten Generation der Voguing Tänzerinnen hierzulande und ließ sich u.a. von Wegweiserinnen des Genres wie Archie Burnett weiterbilden. Zu seinen Inspirationsquellen
zählen Tänzerinnen wie Leiomy Maldonado, Dashaun Wesley und Danielle Polanco. 2018 entschied sich Miro, The House of Melody (heute House of Saint Laurent) zu verlassen, zu dessen Gründungsmitglieder er zählte. Miro wirkte in diesem Zusammenhang in TV-Produktionen und auf Events in Düsseldorf, Berlin und Paris mit, dort sogar im legendären Moulin Rouge. Als Tänzer und Choreograf ist er deutschlandweit tätig, arbeitete für das Junge Schauspiel Düsseldorf, die Deutsche Oper am Rhein und u.a. für Künstlerinnen wie Zebra Katz und Jennifer Rostock. Er
choreografierte während der Berlin Alternative Fashion Week 2017 für Patricia Field, die vor allem
für die Kostümausstattung der US-amerikanischen Serie „Sex and the City” bekannt wurde. Seit
2016 ist Miro Mitglied der Urbanatix Streetart Artistic Crew. Bei den Brit Awards 2019 wirkte er als
einer der Haupttänzer*innen der Performances von Calvin Harris, Rag’n’Bone Man, Sam Smith
und Dua Lipa mit.

Julia Monschau

Julia Monschau ist ausgebildete Tänzerin / Performerin / Rollschuhfahrerin wohnhaft in Berlin.
Als freiberufliche Tänzerin war sie für die „Deutsche Oper am Rhein“ und „Tonhalle“ in Düsseldorf
(DE), für die Produktion der gestiefelte Kater, tätig. Julia’s choreografische Arbeiten wurden am
Theater Tanzspeicher / Dansmakers Amsterdam / Theater Toneelschuur Haarlem ( NL) / Berlin /
Barnes Crossing SoloDuo 2021 Köln gezeigt.
Ihre jüngste Kreation #29828993 wurde für die New Adventure Residenz von Dansmakers
Amsterdam in Kooperation mit dem ICK ausgewählt, umgesetzt und aufgeführt. Ständig versucht
Julia sich weiterzuentwickeln, ihren Horizont zu erweitern und sich herauszufordern, daher lässt sie
Elemente aus Hip-Hop, House, Mixed Martial Arts und Thai Boxen in ihre künstlerische Arbeit mit
einfließen.

ORO-

genderqueer artist collective based in Berlin that comes into being by an intangible magic. They imagine and create social and cultural alternatives through a wide range of medium and practice, including an annual independent movement research journal, performance series, events, rituals and workshops. ORO- has been performing in major venues in Berlin such as Griessmuehle, Wilde Renate, ClubOst, About Blank…and more. Below are the short bios of the 3 -members of the collective that would be part of the residency:

Tzeshi Lei (TW)

Tzeshi is a Butoh dancer/ choreographer and somatic activist
originally from Taiwan, now based in Berlin. Currently they are developing
a method based on drag and shamanic clowning. Since 2018 they are on a radical experiment of questioning the necessity of individualized authorship in post-capitalistic reality so they appear as a entity.

ORO-

Krystsina Faleeva (BLR)

Movement artist and masseuse from Belarus based in Berlin. She is trained as a street dancer of hip-hop, house, popping and krump.
“In 2018 me and my friend organized small festival of performative art in Havana, Cuba.
I was amazed by the fact how well people can communicate with their bodies as we didn’t speak common language. It changed a lot in my way of performing. When I perform i like to connect with the
people around. To welcome them into my world and share the energy. Dance is the language, medicine, meditation, trance, unstoppable river and adventure for me.”

ORO-

Kami Koni.

through her project Biokimika 2000 Solar Punk. K explores human and non-human situations based on a distant and apocalyptic reborned future, where human waste and nature find each other and new species appear. Bio art and neo textile languages cross the body in a non traditional way Animistic and Explorer of different landscapes, she builds shelters in nature that leave us immersed in new realities.