Sabile Rasiti & Stephanie Rauch

Foto: R. Neumüller

Theme specified improvisation is what I am working through to create movement material. The search for a certain kind of body language or state of mind is mainly triggered by inner images, which can be abstract or concrete.
During improvising with an image, let's say a particular space, I would constantly ask myself questions, answering them through the body. In this case questions would be: how big is this space, are there other people, what emotions does it evoke, what is its condition, does it already have a story?
Sometimes there is one movement theme that needs to be followed in further improvisations to get modified and enriched. Which then leads to a another vocabulary.
We make use of specially designed training related to the current working theme, to transcribe the dancers’ bodies in order to attain a new physicality.
We are interested in performing material where the dancers on stage are occupied with specific mental images, but how the material reveals itself or what the spectator reads in it, happens on another level.
Creating situations to provoke a particular state in the audience, for instance, unsteadiness or being ungrounded, is also an important issue that influences our work.

Sabile Rasiti

The working processes are very much concerned with spatial behavior and the interaction of body and space. Spaces sometimes get into active contact with the events happening in them. They become performers themselves. The focus is on how the dancers move the space, and on the other hand, how the dancers’ movements are evoked by a certain spatial condition. We are exploring how a constructed space can undergo a development during a performance. This may happen by moving it through using technical devices or by the way the performers interact with it. The way the light is cast on walls and objects as well as how the sound functions in defined areas play a significant role in my work. Designing room installations for bodies with particular physical expressions is what I am occupied with.

Stephanie Rauch