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GRAPESHADE
Biliana Voutchkova - violin/voice, Klaus Janek - bass/electronics, Ingo Reulecke, Katharina Meves - movement/dance
From 2015 rotating: Katharina Meves, Lisanne Goodhue, Milla Koistinen, Maya Mathilda Carroll - movement/dance
GRAPESHADE
Biliana Voutchkova - violin/voice, Klaus Janek - bass/electronics, Ingo Reulecke, Katharina Meves - movement/dance
From 2015 rotating: Katharina Meves, Lisanne Goodhue, Milla Koistinen, Maya Mathilda Carroll - movement/dance
Grapeshade is dedicated to expanding the relationship between music/sound, dance/movement improvisation and real time composition. The group
searches the balance between all those elements where nether the music nor the dance takes the lead role eliminating the usual tendency of one
becoming an accompaniment. Grapeshade focuses on wide range of tasks that shape each performance - response/repetition, reaction/ignorance
towards individual impulse, minimalism/reduction, fragmentation, symbiosis, interruption, disturbance, and various other ways of transforming
the present momentum into an alternative artistic form. The members of the group have also worked together in different constellations
with other artists, among those Jörg Lukas Matthaei, Louise Wagner, Carlos Bustamante, Alexandru Pasca.
Based in Berlin, Grapeshade gave over 50 performances which concluded their 10 years long practise based research between 2009 - 2019. The group explored the small alternative spaces in the city, among those are Sowieso, Ausland, Farbfernseher, Ms Hecker, Exploratorium, Quite Cue, Wendel, Galerie Mazzoli, Lichtblick Kino, LaborGras, and shared continuously their site specific work with the music and dance followers in informal settings, making most of their gatherings public. In the later years of it's existence Grapeshade started touring (Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey), and expanded into more challenging site specific locations with performances in a natural cave, old water tower, billiard hall, movie theater, bookshop, carpenters workshop, on stage at Radial System V, outdoors at Tempelhof, also at the Elias Canetti Center and the Watertower Festival in Bulgaria with support from the Goethe Institut.
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searches the balance between all those elements where nether the music nor the dance takes the lead role eliminating the usual tendency of one
becoming an accompaniment. Grapeshade focuses on wide range of tasks that shape each performance - response/repetition, reaction/ignorance
towards individual impulse, minimalism/reduction, fragmentation, symbiosis, interruption, disturbance, and various other ways of transforming
the present momentum into an alternative artistic form. The members of the group have also worked together in different constellations
with other artists, among those Jörg Lukas Matthaei, Louise Wagner, Carlos Bustamante, Alexandru Pasca.
Based in Berlin, Grapeshade gave over 50 performances which concluded their 10 years long practise based research between 2009 - 2019. The group explored the small alternative spaces in the city, among those are Sowieso, Ausland, Farbfernseher, Ms Hecker, Exploratorium, Quite Cue, Wendel, Galerie Mazzoli, Lichtblick Kino, LaborGras, and shared continuously their site specific work with the music and dance followers in informal settings, making most of their gatherings public. In the later years of it's existence Grapeshade started touring (Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey), and expanded into more challenging site specific locations with performances in a natural cave, old water tower, billiard hall, movie theater, bookshop, carpenters workshop, on stage at Radial System V, outdoors at Tempelhof, also at the Elias Canetti Center and the Watertower Festival in Bulgaria with support from the Goethe Institut.
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