Programme

Xan Dye

I am rooted but I flow

14.–16.8.

Relaxed Performance 
 

Age recommendation: 6 years

Duration 1 h 15 min

Xan Dye is exploring spaces between binaries. In an improvised performance, the artist works with rocking movement to reflect queer, trans, and neurodivergent becoming – questioning how we can make space for complexity and fluidity.

Invoking Virginia Woolf’s quote “I am rooted but I flow,” Xan Dye explores the paradox of identity and transformation and searches for a state that is grounded and agile, stable and changeable. Xan Dye’s performance practice is a constant process of questioning, of experiencing and becoming through a rocking movement that is rooted in trans, non-binary, neurodivergent and queer identity. The improvisation runs through a variety of experiences and forms of expression, and the performance gives room to contradictory needs and desires.

Tickets

Full 10 € 
Reduced 8 €

Additional service fees for booking online with Reservix apply.

Durational Performance: 3 x 25 min Improvisational Loop

Artist's Note by Xan Dye

“There is something I’m wanting to unearth about rocking as a way of being that is between or beyond binaries

a ‘both-and’ state 

Both pouring weight into the ground and pushing back out of it 

Yielding and resisting. 

Moving and static.

Resting and releasing. 

Repeating 

and 

shifting into something new

The trance of rocking can be a tuning in and tuning out of conscious awareness

Both dissociative and intensely feeling.

I like that It feels like dancing and not dancing -and that’s why to me it feels like a cripping, a queering -a neuro-queering of dance”

— Xan Dye

Premiere
  • Cast

    By & with

    Xan Dye

    Sound Designer

    Adam Bonser

    Production

    Treacle Holasz

  • Credits

    Supported by Candoco Dance Artist Micro-Bursary Scheme

Further Information

Visitor note

This is a relaxed performance. The audience is invited to arrive at the time stated on the ticket and stay as long as they wish. Visitors can leave the hall at any time and return. The audience is invited to choose freely between different seating options in the studio (e.g. beanbags, mats, the floor, etc.). There are three improvisation loops that are similar. LED light is used, which can be positioned in close proximity to the audience. The soundscape consists of low frequencies, high-pitched and sharp tones, abrupt changes in volume, multiple simultaneously audible sound sources, and repetitive rhythmic patterns. There is a separate, quieter Relaxed Space in the foyer of the HAU2 Studio, where stimming toys, eye masks, comfortable seating and ear protection are available free of charge. Depending on capacity, tickets are still available for purchase at the box office. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact the admission staff on site.

Notes:

On 16.8. the workshop will take place "Producing through a Neurodivergent Lense" – Workshop and Conversation on Accessible Producing in the Performing Arts with Treacle Holasz. 

Further information can be found here. 

 

 

Dates of production

Location

HAU2 Studio
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

There are two marked parking spots in front of the building. (in Großbeerenstraße). Wheelchair ramp and lift available. Handicapped accessible restroom facilities are available. Advance notification advised via service@hebbel-am-ufer.de.

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