Juan Pablo Cámara: La Cosa Piel – TANZTAGE BERLIN 2025

2025
34 edition
Dance, Performance Ticket Premiere
Closing party Free admission

Juan Pablo Cámara:
La Cosa Piel

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Juan Pablo Cámara:
La Cosa Piel
Dance/Performance
In English

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January 12 | With German Audiodescription and haptic access tour starting at 6.30 pm

The performances of La Cosa Piel will be presented as a double bill with NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTER by Julia Plawgo.

The backstage is in flames, and I search for the right spot from where to look at it. 
I try to find a reason to cry, but end up smiling evilly...
 
Looking at mannerisms in Latin American telenovelas, La cosa piel delves into hyper-emotionality and the grotesque to explore theatricality, representation and the construction of the self in increasingly alienating times. Together with composer Moro, Juan Pablo Cámara searches for fragile moments within a hyper-constructed environment, to create feelings of intimacy and estrangement. Using the notion/construct of the “drama queen” as a departure point, Juan performs a mash-up of embodiments and texts attempting to expand and reimagine narratives of the self, while navigating edges of performativity and representation.

For questions or information about accessibility, please contact Gina Jeske at jeske@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35.

Concept, CHOREOGRAPHY Juan Pablo Cámara PERFORMANCE Juan Pablo Cámara, Mauro Guz Bejar (MORO), Juan Felipe Amaya Sound Mauro Guz Bejar (MORO) COSTUME Juliane König, Julieta Omil Light design Emilio Cordero Objects Cee Fülleman Texts Juan Pablo Cámara, Juan Felipe Amaya Dramaturgical SUPPORT Maciej Sado, Mateusz Szymanówka Vocal Coach Harald Stojan AUDIO DESCRIPTION Rike Flämig, Lavinia Knop-Walling, Silja Korn Thanks to Mateusz, Zander, Andrey, Marc, Karol, Ketia, Liina, Billy, James, Ronald, Deva, Andrea, Sophie, Daniel, Luis, Raphaël, the whole Sophiensaele team, and everyone at Thatre Haus Schöneweide, Work Space Brussels, Tanz Haus Zürich.

A production by Juan Pablo Cámara in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. With the support of Work Space Brussels and TanzHaus Zürich. The 31st edition of Tanztage Berlin is a production by SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the friendly support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e. V. and Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte. The audio description is carried out in cooperation with Förderband e.V. / Berliner Spielplan Audiodeskription. Media partners:  Siegessäule, tipBerlin, taz and Berlin Art Link.

Juan Pablo Cámara is an Argentinean-born, Berlin-based choreographer and performer who graduated from the School for new Dance Development in Amsterdam. Hailing from a country renowned for its psychoanalytical traditions, he harnesses his own (non-traditional) psychoanalytical practice to explore the boundaries between the personal, the fictional, the cultural. Central to his artistic vision is a fascination with artificiality and hyper-theatricality as tools for world-making and identity construction. By employing elements of irony, absurdity, and skepticism, he challenges conventional notions and prompts viewers to critically engage with the processes through which identities are shaped and narratives are formed. He has performed in theatres and museums across Europe, North and South America, and collaborated with artists such as Michele Rizzo, Jefta van Dinther, Adam Linder. He was in residency at Sophiensæle in the frame of the New Techniques residency program 2022. 

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