Don't miss the Secret Stories of
Yoshiko Chuma,
Agnė Auželytė and Peter Pleyer
April 3
11:00am ET
SML:
Zooma-Dead End
SEQUEL #13.14
Part3
Featuring:
Agnė Auželytė
Peter Pleyer
Presented by
The School of Hard Knocks
Time
Part3.
April 3, 2021
11:00am (ET)
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11:00-11:30am
Agnė Auželytė
11:30-12:00pm
Peter Pleyer
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Admission FREE
Run Time: 90 minutes
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Presented by The School of Hard Knocks
SATURDAY MORNING LIVE
SML: Zooma – Dead End
Secret Journey: 40th Anniversary of
Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks 2020-2023
Nobody knows the true story yet…
Photo by Robert Flynt
SML: Zooma - Dead End is the latest chapter of Dead End, The School of Hard Knocks (2020-2023)
an ongoing multi-disciplinary performance series conceived, created and performed by The School of Hard Knocks.
Assembling a mosaic of films, dance, music, visual art, and narratives,
SML investigates ideas of national security, perceived dangers within borders, immigration, and war.
Now, in the face of the ongoing pandemic, SML turns to the ephemeral spaces online to forge connections between locations.
Using the ubiquitous tools of social conferencing,
Zooma: Dead End will enable artists to explore their ideas and communicate to diverse artists and members of the community.
SML: Zooma - Dead End has featured 10 “sequels” with a regular cast of performers
along with hosts, special guests, and artists who are scattered across the world.
Musicians, dancers and designers interact, albeit indirectly,
as nineteen chapters cross over each other within the time-frame of one hour.
Parallel incidents of sound, text, and action connecting the cities of New York, Ankara, Madaba, Tokyo,
Caracas, Tehran, Hong Kong, Berlin, Los Angeles, Brussels, Kabul, Palestine, and Dakar.
Agnė Auželytė
Agnė Auželytė (she/her, 1991) is a Lithuanian-born dance-maker and interdisciplinary performing artist
based between Amsterdam and Berlin.
She studied Contemporary Dance at The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance (2010-2012), and is currently continuing
her studies in choreography at SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam.
Auželytė has been performing with Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks (New York) since 2014.
Agnė and Yoshiko met at Ponderosa - a dance and art place in rural Germany.
Driven by curiosity, intuitive understanding and burning desire to connect the dots across time and borders,
reoccurring memories, archives and fiction, they continue their conversation till this day.
Agnė has presented solo work as well as participated in various productions in Berlin and beyond for the last 10 years
across the fields of dance, theatre, music and interdisciplinary art.
Her most recent work — the performance series UNDONE, exploring the idea of embodied sounds
in collaboration with Amsterdam-based musician Stephen Doyle — has been supported by Lake Studios Berlin
as well as ada studios in the frame of the NAH DRAN Extended performance series (2019).
Currently, Auželytė is busy with research for her latest choreographic work,
Ana Chrona: Ten Years of Dance Fiction, in collaboration with Ula Liagaitė.
Her texts, co-created with Shelley Etkin (Vagittarius Rising), have been published by COVEN Berlin and HYSTERIA magazine.
This duo has also presented live performance works at nGbK Berlin, 3AM at Flutgraben, GlogauAIR Berlin,
Government Museum and Art Gallery of Chandigarh (India), FRESH Festival (USA), and others.
She is a member of the experimental sound projects Otolitos, VROUW!, and Dragons/Doyle,
as well as creating sonic solo work under the name Dragons.
She is a recipient of the Individual Artist Grant in 2020 from the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
Peter Pleyer
After some years as an actor in German theater,
Peter Pleyer studied dance and choreography at the European Dance Development Center (EDDC) in the art academy in Arnhem/NL.
He worked as dancer and choreographic assistant for Yoshiko Chuma (New York) and Mark Tompkins(Paris).
Since his studies he has worked closely with the Hungarian dancer Eszter Gal,
their choreographies and improvisations have been shown in Holland, Germany, Hungary, Paris and at the New York improvisation festival.
In the Netherlands Peter choreographed his first group pieces (selected for the choreography completions Groningen/NL 1994).
Since 2000 he lives in Berlin with a strong interest in new methods of training dance and composition, where improvisation plays a central role.
Out of his interest in the newly developing dance-research programs in different universities
he developed the lecture performance „choreographing books“ (2005) on his view of the difference in the dance research in the US and Europe,
and how that can be beneficial for dancer and choreographer.
He teaches internationally, his workshop „history in practice“ that focused strongly on the „post-judson-avantgarde“
was held in the alternative dance academy in Poznan, P.O.R.C.H.- Stolzenhagen, the Polish Theatre-Institut, Warsaw,
MA Choreography ArtEZ/ Arnhem, HZT-Berlin and Tanzquartier Wien.
From 2007-14 he was the artistic director of Tanztage Berlin.
In 2014 he successfully picked up his choreographic career
with the solo „Ponderosa Trilogy“ (at the Life-Legacy-Project at Tanzhaus NRW and Impulstanz Wien),
the group research and choreography „visible undercurrent“ (2014/16) and „cranky bodies dance reset“ (2017).
His newest solo „triton tanzt - twisted trident“ about the history of release technique,
deconstructing masculinity and the death of his father, was performed in Berlin and Prag.
With his partner, Michiel Keuper, a visual composer, he will found „cranky bodies“ a/company in August 2020,
despite or because of the difficulties of our times.
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