Continuing Containing

Hello,

Welcome to 'continuing containing, ' where we explore the question: What is collaboration? What forms can it take? And what is made possible in and through collaboration? We deal with the means and spaces in which an exchange occurs. And how this exchange is a creative act. 

We want to challenge our relation to hierarchies: Ideas of beginning and end, initiation and reaction, creation and execution are broken up and transformed. In this way, space is created for a view of living together - a network, a forest, a society, a collaboration. In this, everyone and everything contributes to a force, to something that is to become.

In this way, we perceive collaboration as a political and creative act. It becomes a basis for the perception and shaping of being together and of the person in their relationship with nature. In it, we approach dance and embodiment as a practice to create new political ecologies: ways of perceiving and engaging with the lived world and its entanglements. We confront and embrace the conflict between inclusion and fear, spaces and practices of care and violence in a paradoxical relationship. ‘continuing containing’ joins the rich tradition of contemporary dance as the embodiment of a form of resistance. 

We invite you to linger and encounter the materials and us in the space after the sharing has ended.

Warmly,
raz and susanna

Raz Mantell  is a movement artist based in Berlin. She trained as a dancer at the SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (AU, 2018-2020) and completed the Maslool Professional Dance Programme (IL, 2017-2019). She is a member of nein9 kollektiv - a Berlin-based performance and movement collective. Raz is the recipient of a DISTANZEN-SOLO grant for 2021 and 2022 for her research project "sub-objects". As a dancer, she has worked with Rotem Weissman (The Dance, 2023 IL AGADA, Blank Check Festival, 2022 Dock11, DE), Omer Keinan (Azathoth - Blank Check Festival, 2022 Dock11, Lake Studio ), Geva Zaibert (Blue Balls, 2018 IL) and Shira Elkouby (Harmonielehre, My Condolencesת Magor 2017-2024 Suzanne Dellal Center, IL), among others.

As a creator, she works with movement artist Susanna Ylikoski on her ongoing research and performance "continuing containing". The work was performed in 2022 and 2023 at Dock11 (DE) and Spandau Arcaden as part of the AUFBRUCH Festival by Stadttheater Spandau and was a guest residency in collaboration with ada Studios Berlin (residency funding for dance from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe 2023).