It is not the easiest thing to welcome people to feel the power of grief and mourning. But in the end it felt easy. We are deeply thankful for all who shared these special nights with us, their thoughts and trust. Next stops for HELLO TO EMPTINESS will be: SIDance, Korea, Theatre de Nimes, LOFFT – Das Theater Leipzig. See you!

We have the first video images for our new stage project. Thank you to GNA – Alternative Stage! See you tonight, tomorrow or soon at a place nearby.

The countdown is on: on 16th of April it’s time for the world premiere of HELLO TO EMPTINESS! We are still mouving on the rehearsal stage of the Greek National Opera, but soon the stage design from Portugal will join us and we will move to the final GNO – Alternative Stage. And ous special bonus: The singers of our local Greek “Choir of the Elderly” are already rehearsing with us. See you in Athens!

Our short film will go on travelling in spring: INSULAR BODIES is part of three festivals: The Choreoscope – Barcelona Dance Film Festival will show INSULAR BODIES online from 07 March to 03 April: Then it will be shown with audience at the TRC Danza in A Coruña from 21 to 23April and at the Moovy Tanz FIlm Festival in Cologne on 23 April .

Something special for us again: Under hygienic precautions we were able to welcome an in persona audience to our salon ‘HELLO TO EMPTINESS’ at the tanzhaus nrw. At the same time, we sent our first rehearsal results around the world via livestream. The eveneing was about farewell, death, mourning, and above all cultural mourning rituals and performance practices. In our talk with the ensemble and Tara McEllister-Viel from the University of Sussex we delved even deeper into the tradition of lament songs and the Korean Pansori. Thank you so much for such a moving evening!
We are looking forward toour next rehearsals and especially to the first performances of HELLO TO EMPTINESS … in front of an audience! Here you can find the dates.

ARCHIPEL was our 2020 and 2021: an extraordinary human, musical and choreographic challenge crossing borders, inventing processes of making, with a sparkling community and the arborescent art we do together. We feel blessed that this journey will go on! ARCHIPEL will travel to Norway, so we hope to see you in September 2022 at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival.
Until then, please enjoy our new trailer.

With SYBL.de you can now become part of MOUVOIR! In our interactive magazine we collect thoughts, ideas and everything that comes to your mind and ours on the topics of our productions. Current research: Grieving and mourning rituals. Whether texts, pictures, videos, sounds, from our heart we invite you to participate! And if nothing comes to your mind that quick … just browse around a bit.

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Last night at Radialsystem in Berlin, Belarusian conductor and activist Vitali Alekseenok joined Stephanie Thiersch to talk about ‘Rituals of Revolt’. This listening session was the introduction to a concert by Urkainian artist Mariana Sadowska, who conducted a musical dialogue with percussionist Max Andrzejewski with ‘Songs of Wounding’.
An inspiring evening. Many thanks to Mariana Sadovska, Max Andrzejewski, Vitali Alekseenok, Elisa Erkelenz, Marta Zapparoli!

Outer National

Two dates are coming up where Stephanie Thiersch will be talking about aspects of her work. On the morning of 27.11. at the HfmdK in Frankfurt everything revolves around the body, “The Artist’s Body”, perceiving and connecting with each other. The night of 2.12. at radialsystem in Berlin will be a moment of hurt and pain, as part of the “Outernational Listening Sessions”. We are looking forward to all of you!

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Off to Salzburg! From 11-14 November Stephanie Thiersch will be teaching at the Orff Institute of the Mozarteum masterclasses for students as part of the symposium ‘Chaos Spiel Ritual’. We are looking forward to this exchange with multidisciplinary students! #transdiciplinaryteaching

Last autumn, our film project INSULAR BODIES was born out of isolation. Now our short film is travelling around the world. And we are travelling along. The “Fiver – International Dance Film Festival “http://www.fiverdance.com/ has invited us to Madrid, with red carpet and stage presentation. And now we are looking forward to the next stop!

The Brazilian festival Danca em Transito is currently offering free online workshops for professional dancers. Every Friday a different international tutor will be online; on 15 October from 1:30-15pm, it’s our turn! Stephanie Thiersch will give an insight into contemporary dance á la MOUVOIR.
Participation is free of charge, applications are welcome with a short CV of up to three lines to: online@espacotapias.com.br.
Some sessions will be on the YouTube channel of Dança em Trânsito/Espaço Tápias.
All further info is available here (Portuguese).

Who would have thought: at the end of 2019 we premiered our play TORSO MODI shortly before the first lockdown. In Berlin and Budpest, after that it was very quiet for a while. And now we got back on stage with the Asasello Quartet and five young dancers and were able to revive this production that we have grown so fond of.
We thank a wonderful audience and above all MOVE! Krefelder Tagefür modernen Tanz. It was a very special night for us.

We are invited with TORSO MODI as a guest performance to the MOVE! 20th Krefeld Days for Modern Dance! On 24.09. we will be performing with the Asasello Quartet and the Bodhi Project at Fabrik Heeder.
On Thursday, 23.09, 6 to 7 pm we will already give an insight into our work in the context of tanz.backstage. You can register for this look behind the scenes at tanzvermittlung@landesbuerotanz.de. Participation is free of charge.

Cologne will get to see our film INSULAR BODIES again! On 3 October, the Moovy Tanzfilmfestival Köln at 7pm is organising a special screening at the Filmforum im Museum Ludwig. As a special highlight, we will also be showing GEORGIA, Stephanie Thiersch’s short film from 2002. Afterwards there will be an artist talk with Stephanie Thiersch in the cinema.

Venice, Cologne, Berlin! We are happy about our next cinematic stop. The POOL dance film festival has invited us and our short film. It will be shown at DOK11 on 8 September. 23 minutes on an archipelago where humans and nature become one.
More info here:
https://pool-festival.de/2021/08/10/insualar-bodies/

INSULAR BODIES will be honoured: On July 25th, our 23-minute film will be shown as a world premiere at the Biennale di Venezia 2021. Tickets for the screening in the beautiful Teatro Piccolo Arsenale are already available here: https://labiennale.vivaticket.it/index.php?nvpg%5Bsell%5D&cmd=prices&pcode=8598170&tcode=tl011672
Our short film was made in 2020 as a spontaneous reaction to the lockdown situation, far out in a very real archipelago. With eight dancers, we explored the question of what happens when man and nature meet at eye level and become one.

It was hot. And exciting. For the first time, we performed live in front of an audience again! The Düsseldorf Central was packed as Corona allows. Thank you!

Be an early bird, grab your tickets for our newest production: Tickets for ARCHIPEL will be on presale from Wednesday, 2nd on. So only two days to go … we hope so much to see you on either 18th, 19th or 20th of June. Finally performing in front of a live audience again. “
https://www.theaterderwelt.de/service/karten/

Our production BILDERSCHLACHTEN is part of the programme of Tanz NRW. Since the festival has to take place digitally due to corona, our planned performance will also be an online event. On 3 May, 20:00, you can take part via dringeblieben.de. Tickets are already on sale. We are happy if you join us!