Luisa Fernanda Alfonso: Masterpiece – TANZTAGE BERLIN 2025
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso:
Masterpiece
Masterpiece
No language, songs in Spanish
10€/15€
25.01.: showing with German audio description, tactile tour at 6 pm
Registration and tickets at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or by telephone Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on 030 278 900 35.
Additional showing as part of The freedom to be free: art and culture between dialog and polarisation on 30.01.
Out of her fascinations and frustrations, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso embodies and turns around the archetypes of The Character Dancer and The Mariachi – characterized for being hyper-dramatic, hyper-virtuous and hyper-gendered. Masterpiece explores both their excesses in the tumult of nostalgic and Latin American associations, hijacking the dance from its legitimacy, legacy and traditions. How can we create conditions for these archetypes to exist with us today? How to find pleasure in spaces where we no longer know how to position ourselves? What resonates through our simultaneous fascination and irritation? In collaboration with composer Peter Rubel and an abundance of loudspeakers, Masterpiece deals with the poetics of building, unbuilding, repeating, modulating, interrupting and abandoning dances and songs, which attempt to exist within consonance and dissonance.
If you have any questions from the following information, please contact Stefanie Hauser at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35.
Duration
- approx. 45 minutes without break
Language
- No language. Lyrics in Spanish spoken language.
Audio description
- The performance on 25.1. will take place with German audio description.
- The tactile tour beforehand will take place at 6 pm. The meeting point for the tactile tour is in front of the box office in the courtyard.
- If required, we offer a pick-up service for blind and visually impaired people from the nearby S-Bahn and streetcar stations before the guided tours. These are the S-Bahn Hackescher Markt, the U-Bahn Weinmeisterstraße or the streetcar station Weinmeisterstraße/Gipsstraße. To make use of the pick-up service, please contact us during our business hours (Monday to Friday between 10 am and 6 pm) on 030 27 89 00 35 or barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com.
- You can find more information about audio descriptions and the pick-up service at the Sophiensaele here.
Light
- The lighting mood alternates between light and dark
- There is a sudden change of light to dark.
Sound
- Live singing on stage
- There is sound and music from loudspeakers, some of which are moved across the stage
- Live singing and sound overlap
Other
- Stage fog is used.
Audience
- Stand with seat cushions (without backrest)
- The last row of the grandstand is seated.
- 2 beanbag seats bookable subject to availability
- 2 wheelchair spaces bookable subject to availability
Early boarding
- There will be a long admission. The doors open 10 minutes before the show.
Tickets
- Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
- Via the online ticket shop
- At the box office
You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.
By: Luisa Fernanda Alfonso
In collaboration with: Peter Rubel
Costumes: Isabelle Lange
Lights: Vito Walter
Audio description: Felix Koch, Johanna Krins, Evelyn Sallam
With special support from: Leila Hekmat, Diego Agulló, Jule Flierl, Stine Janvin, Daniel Ernesto Müller, Shade Thérèt, Estefanía Alvarez Ramirez, Ernesto Cárcamo Cavazos, Anna Philippa Müller, MA SODA, Margie Medlin, Maria Camila Alfonso
A production by Luisa Fernanda Alfonso in cooperation with HZT Berlin. The 34th Tanztage Berlin is a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., Theaterhaus Berlin and Uferstudios GmbH. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso is a Colombian dancer living in Berlin. She graduated from Limón PSP in New York, B.A. in Dance at the Folkwang University in Essen and M.A. SODA at HZT Berlin. She approaches dance and performance as a carefully orchestrated artificial theatrical apparatus. Her affinity to sound composition, loudspeakers and voice recordings is interwoven with her way of thinking and making choreography. Her work has been part of Kunstverein München, and Festivals Les Urbaines, TanzNRW, thecarrierbag, Parallèle, Domingo, Rakete, and Mind Eater. She has worked with Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez, Leila Hekmat, caner teker, juan felipe amaya gonzalez, Luísa Saraiva, Deva Schubert, Sanna Helena Berger, Emilie Gregersen, Kim Dall’armi, Armin Hokmi and Xenia Koghilaki.
Peter Rubel is a musician based in Essen. He studied instrumental and electronic composition at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Günter Steinke, Dirk Reith and Michael Edwards, as well as organ with Roland Stangier. Peter Rubel is a member of ensembles/bands such as Müde, GLIS GLIS, International Music, Laava and The Düsseldorf Düsterboys. His work focuses on long durations, overtones, beats, amplification, polyrhythms and instrumental expansion through electronics. Since 2016 he is part of the committee of the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Ruhr e.V. and since 2018 he curates the concert series Soundfloat. Peter collaborated with Gökçe Ogultekin and Luísa Saraiva in their work Hark! and with Luisa Fernanda Alfonso in her work Masterpiece.