Étape Danse: Offenes Studio | Lina Gómez (Berlin) / EM+ Emanuele Rosa & Maria Focaraccio (Genua/Berlin) / Collectif ÈS (Lyon)

In the organizer's words:

Étape Danse is a trilateral European residency program that supports three selected new dance productions from France, Germany and Italy each year. This year, fabrik Potsdam is presenting excerpts and works-in-progress by James Batchelor, Jacopo Jenna and Nicolas Fayol / Collectif Hinterland in an open studio.

VASTA
Lina Gómez (Berlin)

Vasta delves into the immensity of ancestral and fictional heritage and identity vibrating through the voices and bodies of different women. In collaboration with other artists, Lina Gómez reflects on cultural practices and the persistence of the body in history, drawing inspiration from her background in Afro-Brazilian and Colombian traditions.

Born in Colombia and based in Berlin, choreographer and dancer Lina Gómez constantly shifts the constellations between the visible and the invisible, between the human and the non-human. By playing with different scenic and physical configurations, she speculates on the possibilities of connection based on differences and changes the normative perception of time by opening up new worlds of imagination.

ABOUT LAMBADA
Collectif ÈS (Lyon)

As children of the 1990s, driven by the utopia of the European Union, a territory with open borders, Sidonie Duret, Jérémy Martinez and Émilie Szikora witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. The year 1989 was also the year when the song Lambada dominated the charts in Germany. AboutLambada explores the connection between the fall of the Wall and the lambada, an international, social and political phenomenon, and questions its potential to bring bodies and countries closer together.

Since 2011, Sidonie Duret, Jérémy Martinez and Émilie Szikora have created pieces together that deal with utopia, disagreement, plagiarism and popular heritage. Creating a live performance means sharing physical and emotional experiences, cultivating physical empathy and exploring the social role of collaboration.

AMƏN
EM+ / Emanuele Rosa & Maria Focaraccio (Genoa/Berlin)

Derived from the Hebrew word "amen", which means "to be sure" and "to be true", amən explores concepts such as authenticity and appearance, as well as the blurred boundaries between education, culture and nature. Moving between drama and irony, the work explores identity, gender and the complexity of masculinity and femininity in a body. Through movement, sound and video, it invites reflection on gender representation and personal identity.

EM+, founded in 2022 by Emanuele Rosa and Maria Focaraccio, works with various partners. Their choreography explores identity, gender and expression with humor and depth. They explore the essence of expression, search for honesty and courage to accept one's identity through movement and focus on the vulnerability of each person.