At Close Distance

At Close Distance

By Christina Ciupke and Ayşe Orhon

When you come closer, all my senses are caught by the intensity of your physical presence. When you retreat, the impact of our encounter remains. As the distance between us increases, my focus shifts from looking to imagining. The attention is bridging the space between us.

Christina Ciupke and Ayşe Orhon, knowing each other from the Master Programme for Choreography at the AHK Amsterdam, got together to create a choreography based on an earlier work – the duet, kannst du mich umdrehen, which Christina Ciupke and Nik Haffner developed in 2011. In At Close Distance, the two choreographers excavate the past of this physical encounter. While the movements are reduced, the intensity of the play between proximity and distance increases. With uncanny precision, Ciupke and Orhon work on velocity, friction, mass and stillness, where the intimacy of the encounter is randomly disrupted by sounds breaking the silence.

Credits:

Performance: Christina Ciupke and Ayşe Orhon
Artistic Advice: Nik Haffner
Outside Eye: Felix Marchand
Light design: Martin Beeretz
Sound Advice: Boris Hauf
Knitting Design: NITTO Studio
Press/ PR: Lilly Schofield
Production dramaturgy: Barbara Greiner

Date: 1,2 June
Hour: 20:00
Address: Movement Theatre
Tickets: June 01  |  June 02