Premiere Claire Vivianne Sobottke "Velvet"

Claire Vivianne Sobottke’s new solo unfolds in a miniature garden, and explores solitude and sexuality. In “Velvet” the Berlin-based choreographer creates a series of portraits that operate in these worlds and challenge norms of seeing and thinking. They seek the poetic and irrational, so as to both construct and deconstruct categorisations, embodiments and identities – such as the concept of the female. The fluctuation of ideas gives rise to an iridescent, disconcerting subject that is always changing and impossible to categorise.

Choreography: Claire Vivianne Sobottke 
With: Claire Vivianne Sobottke
Music: Tian Rotteveel
Lighting Design: Catalina Fernandez
Space: Clementine Pohl
Artistic Advice: Jared Gradinger, Sheena McGrandles
Production Management & Assistance Set: Simone Graf

Production: Claire Vivianne Sobottke. Coproduction: Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Life Long Burning – Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe. 

Supported by: PACT Zollverein. 

Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) in the frame of the Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa des Landes Berlin.
View an interview between Tanz im August and Claire Vivianne Sobottke in the upper right column.