Zwei Performer:innen in intensiver Pose auf dunkler Bühne, grünlich beleuchtet, mit ineinander verschlungenen Körpern.
Zwei Performer:innen in dramatischer, körperlich verschränkter Pose auf dunkler Bühne, grünlich beleuchtet; eine Person liegt über der anderen und blickt nach oben.

Clara Furey

UNARMOURED

14.–16.8.

16.8. ● Beyond the Stage

Age recommendation: 16 years

Duration 1 h 00 min

In “UNARMOURED”, Clara Furey and three queer artists ask how we can take back control over our bodies, desires, and pleasure. The performance shows free, emotional eroticism and aims to sharpen the senses of both audience and performers.

How can I re-appropriate the sovereignty over my body, my pleasure and my desire? And how can we meet one another in the process of dissolving our individual limitations? It is questions like these that serve as a foundation and starting point of “UNARMOURED”. In this performance, Clara Furey and her three queer collaborators demand the right to a self-determined, escalating eroticism beyond normative ideas. As in her previous pieces, the choreographer and performer Furey provides direct, emotional access to her artistic work, and aims to sharpen the sensory perceptions of both the audience and the performers.

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Tickets

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Reduced 13 / 9 €

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Artist's Note by Clara Furey

“I’m interested in exploring the codes that travel in and across various art forms.

My practice in movement gives equal consideration to both space and sound, with the goal of encouraging the awakening of the sensorial perceptions of the audience and the performers, giving them emotive immediacy, direct access. 

I’m guided by the belief that beauty might appear after a long arduous process. Not beauty that appears out of nowhere, but beauty that is already there, under the layers. I often work in minimalist set-ups that can foster intimate atmospheres and invite us to take a contemplative posture. I want to leave room for the creative mind of the spectator. Sometimes a deep feeling of emptiness arises in my work or rather an investigation around the concept of emptiness and all the links and dynamics that it is filled with. The void becomes a conveyor of possibilities and allows all form of communication to coexist.

I am in a constant dialogue with the other mediums and collaborators taking part in the work and this is what excites me.

Ultimately – in between the lines of space and sound, I create pieces that are at once literal and abstract in which audiences can assemble their own elements, understand what they need to understand as they see fit. It is in abstract dense poetic fragments and their ability to compress the story that I often find inspiration to begin a new work. Moving through improvisations and a constant reconsideration of the most basic gestures, my performances often employ duration and repetition of ritualized movements. 

I take great care not to take this for granted. Because these movements always come loaded with a constantly changing mix of both meaning and non-meaning.

I’m interested in what you could call “existential dance experiments” where I can explore states of being, where we can explore mystical interior landscapes and attempt to locate radiance within the enveloping darkness. 

I’m interested in the different constellations of listening we can develop through physical practices and the practice of empathy.

My work is porous – porous in the choreographic offerings I propose, porous in what the performers exude, a porosity I hope can be seen and felt in the energetic exchange between us all.”

— Clara Furey

Trailer: UNARMOURED

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German Premiere
  • Cast

    Concept & Art Director

    Clara Furey

    Choreographer

    Clara Furey in collaboration with Justin De Luna, Be Heintzman Hope, Brian Mendez

    With

    Justin De Luna, Clara Furey, Chéline Lacroix, Brian Mendez

    Musical Composition & Live Spatialisation

    Twin Rising

    Outside Eye

    Bettina Blanc Penther, Aisha Sasha John

    Rehearsal Director

    Lucie Vigneault, Simon Portigal

    Costume Designer

    Be Heintzman Hope

    Lighting Designer

    Paul Chambers

    Assistant Lighting Designer

    Jordana Natale

    Technical Director

    Jenny Huot, Darah Miah

    Distribution

    Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent, (A Propic)

  • Credits

    Production Bent Hollow Cie

    Production manager Parbleux

    Co-production Charleroi danse, Atelier de Paris – CDCN, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara Trento, Festival TransAmériques

    Supported by Parbleux

    Clara Furey is associated artist of Usine C for the period 2021-2024. Developed in collaboration with the National Creation Fund of the National Arts Center of Canada.

    Sponsored by: Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal.

    The presentation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Supported by the Québec Government Office in Berlin.

Further Information

Visitor note

A hazer (fog machine) will be used.

Dates of production

  • German premiere

    Thu 14.8.

    from 18:00 to 19:00 HAU2

  • Fri 15.8.

    from 21:00 to 22:00 HAU2

  • Sat 16.8.

    from 20:00 to 21:00 HAU2

    ● Beyond the Stage

Location

HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

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