Radio-Choreography: Living Traces - 2024

Radio-Choreography: Living Traces explores various ways of broadcasting dance on the radio. By transforming choreographic practice into sound, it brings together a collection of dance acts which were performed by female choreographers in contexts of resistance and migration. Crossing geopolitical and temporal borders, the show will travel between Vienna 1913, Beirut 2019, Berlin 1942 and Teheran 2021. Listening to invisible bodies and unruly voices, the show combines performance, live mixing, archival material, field recordings and electronic sounds. This episode, developed for the Summer Academy with special guest Shahrzad Nazarpour, transforms the Zwergelgartenpavillon into a temporary radio station, broadcasting live on Radio Radiofabrik.

Radio-Choreography is an artistic research project initiated and led by Netta Weiser, in collaboration with choreographers, researchers, sound and radio artists. The project explores the transformation of dance into sound, the relations between live broadcasting and muted histories, as well as acts of listening as modes of being together. Since 2019 the project has been presented in various formats and contexts, most recently at the Akademie der Künste and KUNST WERKE in Berlin, Tanzquartier and Tonspur in Vienna, WDR and Tanzmuseum in Cologne, Villa Medici in Rome, the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe and others. https://radio-choreography.net/.

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Venue: Stadtgalerie Zwergelgarten
Date: 30. 7. 24, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Netta Weiser

Netta Weiser is a choreographer, artist and researcher based in Berlin, working across performance, sound installation and experimental radio. Her works have been presented internationally, most recently at the Akademie der Künste, Kunst Werke, Tanzquartier Wien, Onassis Stegi Athens, WDR, Villa Medici Rome, Tanznacht Berlin, Sophiensaele, TONSPUR Micro Museum for Sound at MQ Vienna. In 2019 she established the artistic research project Radio-Choreography exploring the transformation of dance into sound and developling performative practices for the radio. The project has been supported contiuesly by various institutional collaborations, grants and residencies, namely, the NRW Dance Research residency for international artists in 2020, a fellowship at the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste in 2021, Hauptstadtkulturfonds 2022-2024. Moreover, Weiser teaches regularly at the Klangzeitort Institute for New Music Berlin and at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 2024 the Badischer Kunstverein presents her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany.