10 Years LUCKY TRIMMER Best Of
2014 promises to be the year of the LUCKY TRIMMER - as we celebrate our 10th birthday!
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A decade ago a small bunch of slightly insane people came up with the unthinkable idea of organising a platform for short choreography spotlighting emerging and established artists with their newest creations. There was no restriction of genre but one simple rule applied: be original, be daring and keep it under 10 minutes! LUCKY TRIMMER Tanz Performance Serie was born.
Over the years, LUCKY TRIMMER has evolved using ideas drawn from the playfulness of a child's mind sprinkled with the wisdom of experience: a lack of fear and expectation, the ability to lose one's self in the creative process, learning through explorative playfulness. By fostering the child mind in a casual, cabaret-like atmosphere, LUCKY TRIMMER has injected wonder, humour and risk-taking into its attitude, benefiting both the artists and audience with new visions of possibility resulting in establishing itself as a mainstay in the Berlin cultural landscape.
Making a space for excellent, under-represented ideas to reach an audience, LUCKY TRIMMER has been able to navigate its ship of ideas through choppy waters for a decade with unshakable enthusiasm, offering prestigious stages to more than 150 artists and leaving lasting impressions on an ever growing audience. Therefore, what better way to celebrate LUCKY TRIMMER´s birthday and success than rejoicing in some of its most acclaimed pieces of the last 10 years?
LUCKY TRIMMER celebrates its 10th birthday with a special selection of yummy treats seasoned with a light pinch of entertainment and a generous dose of challenging artistic awesomeness. Some of our most cheered and whooped former LUCKIES bring back to the Berlin stage their delightful “cream of the crop” performances wrapped in a 10 minute max package. Expect a big musical hit from yesterday, an ode to manhood, a very lively foot, some intense and defying dancing, indispensable household tips, rhythmical virtuosity and of course some surprises. A birthday celebration for loving fans and fearless souls.
After an opening surprise, Sonya Levin (LUCKY #16) will heat up the stage with “The Day Before”, an intelligent dissection of one of the biggest hits of the 60s. Tightrope walking between choreography as dry as a bone and highly emotional states, Sonya skilfully stretches our patience to the limits.
Conceived in the frame of "the "2009 Young Choreographers" scheme of the Folkwang Hochschule, “Das Röhren Der Hirsche" was the 1st choreography of Simon Hartmann & Daniel Ernesto Müller, alias HARTMANNMUELLER (LUCKY # 13) which they created and danced together with their fellow student, Tim Gerhards. In this satirical piece the three boys celebrate and mock all at once our dear and precious manhood with postpubescent choreographic maturity.
In her award-winning solo “The Foot”, Luciá Marote (LUCKY # 19) embodies a short story written by her brother Andrés Marote and leads us on an usual journey from death to life with astonishing effect and beautiful simplicity.
The LUCKY veteran, Jessy Tuddenham (LUCKY # 1) learnt the Art of Fitted Sheet folding at a very young age, when her mother sat her down with a basket of fresh laundry and began an instructional performance on a rare and dignified art. After spending thousands of US dollars on a higher education degree in Dance Performance and Choreography, Jessy returned to her roots, appropriated the home performance of her mother and in her solo “How to…” instructs the masses on fitted sheet folding.
La Macana (LUCKY # 16) displays a great aesthetic sense and a brilliant flow of movements in their intense duo “VEN”. Caterina Varela and Alexis Fernández are extraordinarily profound and connected, a perfect interplay which fascinates and thrills as though they defy the laws of physics.
Although described as not being a love story by Lander Patrick (LUCKY # 19), “Cascas d’Ovo / Eggshells” expresses a surprising and somewhat sensual encounter. The slapstick brio of the two blindfolded man, Lander Patrick and Jonas Lopez, triggers playful moments and delightfully ambiguous situations that will certainly make the spectator fall in love.
The birthday Best Of edition closes with yet another essential household skill: the baking. “Bernadette”, the charming, although obsessive-compulsive housewife character portrayed by Caroline Finn (LUCKY # 14) is faced with the mundane task of apple pie making which spirals into a touchingly futile struggle against chaos. “Bernadette” oscillates between restrained sequences danced around the preparation of a cake and violent falls that undo what has been designed in an apparent mastery… A LUCKY Classic!
"Enough words have been exchanged; now at last let us see some cake!" (Goethe, Faust I, slightly altered)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCKY TRIMMER !
LUCKY ARTISTS
Sonya Levin (R/D), HARTMANNMUELLER + Tim Gerhards (D), Luciá Marote (CR/ES), Jessy Tuddenham (US/Berlin), La Macana (ES), Lander Patrick (P), Caroline Finn (GB/D)
An event of LUCKY TRIMMER e.V. in collaboration with SOPHIENSAELE and supported by a network of private sponsors, volunteers and friends. Special Thanks to the Goethe Institut and our media partners Berlin Poche, taz.die tageszeitung and Berliner Fenster
05 April 2014 / 20h
06 April 2014 / 17h + 20h
SOPHIENSAELE Berlin, Festsaal
Sophienstr. 18, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
Tickets: 15/10 Euro
Booking: 030 283 52 66
www.sophiensaele.com