Darko Radosavljev: There is no picture of my parents and me (until there was)

In the organizer's words:

There is no picture of Darko Radosavljev with his parents - until one suddenly appears. Starting from this blank space, a choreographic exploration of memory, projection and the question of how family images are created unfolds. Between contemporary dance and pop culture references, the body moves through different roles, attributions and ideas of how one is seen and how one creates oneself. Memories do not appear as a fixed narrative, but as something that changes through movement, repetition and embodiment.

Instead of trying to replace the missing image, new family images are constantly created in the course of the performance: fleeting, performed, contradictory. Clothing, music and gestures become carriers of memory and transformation. Radosavljev uses autobiographical material to develop a multi-layered choreographic work about loss, identity and the possibility of constantly seeing oneself and others anew.

Darko Radosavljev, born in Serbia, works and lives as a choreographer and dancer in Essen and Berlin. He studied dance and choreography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, as well as art and politics at Goldsmiths University of London and the London School of Economics. From 2010 to 2015, he was the first dance scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and in 2018 received initial funding from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe for his solo piece Seascape. His works have been shown at the Liverpool Biennial, Performing Arts Festival Berlin, Act! Bilbao, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Uferstudios Berlin, tanzhaus nrw, Pact Zollverein and tanz nrw. Darko Radosavljev was a member of the Folkwang Tanzstudio ensemble from 2017 to 2023 and worked with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Boris Charmatz, Reinhild Hoffmann, Xavier Le Roy, Susanne Linke and Nevin Aladağ, among others. There is no picture of my parents and me (until there was) is the second co-production between him and tanzhaus nrw.

Duration: approx. 60 min.