Native Defragmentation

Posted on November 16, 2022November 16, 2022 by theprogressivewave

Native Defragmentation

3-Channel video installation (10 minutes loop)
with a parallel soundscore (18 minutes loop)
Artist-made Sukkah, found objects
Vernissage: October 1st, 2022, CLB Gallery, Berlin.

In a floating Sukkah*, a marriage between primal existences is investigated. This 3-channel video installation employs verses from King Solomon’s erotic, holy poem Shir Hashirim [The Song of Songs], a passionate love song between the soul and its creator. The fractured poetry was translated into native Sign Language in a German/Israeli visual vernacular – a poetic form of Sign Language art, wedded with sacred indigenous Brazilian tunes on a parallel channel. The piece blends several artistic mediums to inspire reflection on the notions of nativeness and global cross-cultural intersections (*Sukkah – a temporary hut constructed during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot, topped with branches and often well decorated with autumnal, harvest, or Judaic themes).

Sign Language Poetic Translation & Performance: Eyk Kauly, Athena Lange, Gal Naor
Video: Shira Kela
Sound: Matan Zamir
Vocals: Lia Amit, Gal Naor
Special Thanks to Yehonatan Shayovitz, Sarah Marcus

Photography by Anton Tal

The piece was coproduced by LABA Berlin, a laboratory for Jewish culture, sponsored by ReBeam GmbH – Audio visual equipment in Berlin, and presented at CLB Gallery, Berlin.

Oráculo installation

Posted on March 27, 2022March 27, 2022 by theprogressivewave

Oráculo Installation

Oráculo installation preview, October 29th, 2017, Circle1 gallery, Berlin
Vernissage: June 21st, 2018, Trauma Bar und Kino, Berlin

A site-specific performative installation for a gallery space unravels an intimate view into the world of Oráculo, the second chapter in The progressive wave’s performance trilogy, Science of Signs. The scenography made of natural wood and ropes for Oráculo’s stage is presented in three gallery rooms, revealing fantastic and surreal altar spaces. With an ongoing performative presence, projections on water and original knotted rope objects, and live audiovisual experiments.

Concept, Direction, Choreography, Sound-Score Design: Gal Naor and Matan Zamir
Set, Light, Video. Design, Technical Direction: Marc Jungreithmeier
Performance: Jessica Comis, Ruby Wilson
Rope Objects: Ori Efrat
Costume Design: Don Aretino
Photography: Shiran Eliaserov

Oráculo installation is a production of The progressive wave with the support of Trauma Bar und Kino and Circle1 gallery, Berlin.

LoveArchive

Posted on January 20, 2020March 28, 2022 by theprogressivewave

LoveArchive
a Performative Installation
by Karolin Stächele and The progressive wave

Premiere: Sunday, January 26th, 2020, Contemporary Art Gallery, E-Werk, Freiburg

In continuation of her ten months of research and documentation project, choreographer Karolin Stächele invited us to join forces and co-create a performative installation on the topic of love. LoveArchive is looking into how people love in today’s culture, and the diverse ways love can be expressed in our times.

Concept, Artistic Direction: Karolin Stächele
Dramaturgy and Choreography: The progressive wave (Gal Naor & Matan Zamir)
Creative Performers: Lotta Sandborgh, Angelo Petracca, Chiara Marolla, Gal Naor, Karolin Stächele
Space Design: Sönke Ober
Project Advisor: Sabine Noll
Photography: Jennifer Rohrbacher, Michaela Klaehn

LoveArchive is a production of the Dagada Dance Company in collaboration with The progressive wave, in cooperation with E-WERK Freiburg – Gallery for Contemporary Art. Funded by the Cultural Office in Freiburg and Landesverband Freie Tanz, Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V. With funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

ZONE

Posted on July 9, 2019January 11, 2020 by theprogressivewave

ZONE
a contemporary site-specific dance ritual

Premiere: July 5th, 2019 at Halle am Berghain, Berlin

An audiovisual odyssey unfolds infernal and celestial imagery
bodies are gathered in a circle to hold a secret ceremony
forming and deforming abstract ornaments
they redefine space, possess, merge, and dissolve.
A sudden desire erupted out of the ritualistic pattern.
A sacrifice fulfilled as empty.

This interdisciplinary site-specific dance performance takes its inspiration from the ancient Sufi dance, fusing various reflective acts in which a state of trance can be reached, with a live video installation, a contemporary electronic sound-score, and a fashion-forward statement.

A zone where minds can blend into collective awareness.

Concept & Art Direction: Idan Gilony for UY Studio
Curation: Helena Eleonora Rönnmark
Co-Artistic Direction & Choreography: The progressive wave
(Gal Naor and Matan Zamir)
Sound Composition & Live Set: Dasha Rush
Solo Performance: Valentin Tszin
Creative Dancers: Alistair Wroe, Angelo Petracca, Annalise Van Even, Aya Nakagawa, Davide Troiani, Georgia Bettens, Gianna DiGirolamo, Hollie Dorman, Jemima Rose Dean, Lorenzo Savino, Lydia Toompere, Lysandre Coutu-Sauvé, Madeleine White, Maria Chroni, Marta Antinucci, Matilde Bassetti, Rima Baransi, Ross Martinson
Lights: Michał Andrysiak
Vocals: Emre Zaim Demirtas
Visuals: Stanislav Glazov
Costumes: UY Studio
Production: Leo Beck, Dominika Wiśniewska
Video Trailer: Petros Kolotouros
Photography: Irma Fs for Vogue Magazine, Nadia Morozewicz for Sleek Magazine, Frank R. Schröder for iHeartBerlin

ZONE was produced by fashion-label and art platform, UY studio, as part of their fifth anniversary at Halle am Berghain, Berlin, curated by Helena Eleonora Rönnmark, and in artistic collaboration with sound composer and established Dj, Dasha Rash, Butoh and performance artist, Valentin Tzin, and body-mind researches and choreographers, Matan Zamir and Gal Naor (The progressive wave).

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Posted on March 20, 2018March 27, 2022 by theprogressivewave

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Premiere: March 16th, 2018 at Ballhaus Ost, Berlin.

When language loses its meaning, bodies collide. A dream becomes a reality, and reality becomes a dream. In a night full of desires and love, the innermost secrets rage outwards.

In this unique production, Possible World ensemble explores together with The progressive wave, the potential of language as an action in space. Emerging from the written text of William Shakespeare and its translation to German Sign Language, into the expansion of a dreamy queer version of the play. Making use of Bharatanatyam choreography and body language, the piece is mixing Sign Language with a robust physical approach.

The cast consists of ten Deaf and hearing performers. This international ensemble challenges the traditional Western boundaries of language and literature.

The piece is accessible to both hearing and Deaf audiences.

Direction: Michaela Caspar
Choreography: The progressive wave / Gal Naor & Matan Zamir
Creative Performers: Anka Böttcher, Brian Duffy, Emilia von Heiseler, Eyk Kauly, Athina Lange, Peter Marty, Gal Naor, Okan Seese, Anne Zander, Wille F. Zante
Translation to German Sign-Language: Eyk Kauly, Wille F. Zante, Corinna Brenner
Bharatanatyam Choreography: Rajyashree Ramesh
Scenography: Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
Costumes: Gabriele Wischmann
Visual Vernacular: Brian Duffy
Video: Jens Kupsch
Light Design: Fabian Eichner
Director Assistant: Max Neu
Production Manager: Daniel Schrader

A production of Possible World e. V. in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost, Berlin. Funded by Aktion Mensch, Vinci Foundation and the Herbert-Grünewald-Foundation.

Science of Signs

Posted on December 29, 2017January 9, 2020 by theprogressivewave

Science of Signs Performance Trilogy

In 2016, together with the support of ID Festival Berlin, The progressive wave had embarked on working their interdisciplinary performance trilogy, Science of Signs.

This theatric triptych, presented in three correlating chapters, is exploring the relations between science, performance, and spiritual studies, and structuring unique dramaturgical modules to examine juxtapositions and overlaps between religious motifs, traditional elements, and cultural references from around the globe.

Making use of various written, spoken and signed languages, cameras, 3D video-mapping, and the execution of live audio-visual experiments, the trilogy is exploring the common ground of humankind. It aims to reveal the similarities and connections of different nations, cultures, and beliefs, and shapes an innovative translation to coded universal knowledge.

This interdisciplinary spectacle gives prominence to the work of Art as to a work of Translation and instructs to question the spiritual and educative roles of Performance-Art in today’s culture, basing its philosophical searches in the heart of all experience, which is familiar to all human beings.

Science of Signs performance trilogy strives to adopt a comprehensive approach towards both esoteric and mainstreamed religious doctrines and spiritual theories to examine their relevance in contemporary society, traveling between the now, the ancient, and the futuristic.

Science of Signs I: Lights & Vessels

Science of Signs II: Oráculo