With DOGOD The Situation begins the creation process with an audition for dogs. The performance brings the human animal and the non-human animal together in a safe environment that contemplates different perceptions. Ideas of fun, play and fighting induce participants to navigate instantaneous and interactive choreographic flows. The performers map and structure the space both through intimate acts of presence and the positioning of objects; blurring the boundary between animate and inanimate and continuously deconstructing the ‘situation’.
The Situation draws on Donna Haraway’s suggestion to rethink the relationship between species and to “be able to join another, to see together without pretending to be another”. It assumes the unpredictable and insecure threshold in which the continuous construction and destruction of a place is both relational and empathetic. Within it physicality is a radar, a language to communicate spatially. An expression of territory and not of identity
Performance 2021
Performers: Rocio Marano, Rudi Pistacchio, Marco Mazzoni, Boki, Barara Berti, Mina, Paolo Rosini
Performance 2022-2023
Performers: Claudia Tomasi, Rudi Pistacchio, Paolo Rosini, Lilli, Barara Berti, Aimee
Review
Newspaper
Goethe institute
ACUD MACHT NEU – Berlin. Premier Juli 2020 (Short version cause corona restriction)
Concept, choreography, text: Barbara Berti
performers and project collaborators: 2020 Kareth Schaffer, Manon Parent, Barbara Berti. Non humans/dogs: Rudi, Boki and Romeo
The Situation. DOGOD
(first study) 2019. Practice Dance of the being
Concept: Barbara Berti
Performers and project collaborators: Marco Mazzoni, Kareth Schaffer, Barbara Berti, Zoe Degli Esposti, Floki Cannata
Objects: Marco Mazzoni
Production: Xing, Mibac/Tirdanz
Concept Barbara Berti
Performers and project collaborators Marco Mazzoni, Kareth Schaffer, Barbara Berti, Zoe Degli Esposti, Floki Cannata
Objects Marco Mazzoni
Production TIR Danza / MIC Ministero della Cultura
Supported by Ariella Vidach AiEP In collaboration with Ariella Vidach AiEP NAOcrea Residenze, H(abita)T – Rete di spazi per la danza, Ballhaus Ost (Berlino) and Santarcangelo Festival
BARBARA BERTI 