SMASH - Berlin

Dear SMASH Friends,
this is an official announcement that from 2018 SMASH will stop its activities.
We would like to thank all of the collaborators, teachers, participants and supporters who made this 5 years the most incredible ride. We are truly humbled by the interest and love the project has received. Now it's time to move on to new adventures!

Gratefully,
SMASH Team

SMASH #9 open morning classes announced

SMASH #9 open morning classes announced Dear friends, We are very excited that SMASH #9 is starting soon, with a group of talented performers from all over the world.  As usual, we offer external participants the opportunity to join our morning classes, led by different dance artists, who will introduce their personal movement practice. C...

SMASH #9 | #10 news

SMASH Berlin newsletter July 2017 What an exciting selection process we’ve had last May, with more than 90 talented artists applying for the upcoming 3-month intensive program SMASH #9, out of which a group of 20 participants have been selected. We're thrilled to start this new journey with this amazing group. 

We are excited to announce that we have completed our selection process and we have a wonderful group to start working with in August!
SMASH #9 will take place from Aug 21 to Nov 10, 2017.

We're also delighted to introduce our three scholarship recipients for SMASH #9 – Sebastian Kann (Netherlands), Leandro de Souza (Brazil) and Tui Hofmann (New Zealand).

Introducing SMASH #9 - module #4
body/material
Maria F. Scaroni
Oct 30 – Nov 10, 2017

Inviting participants to look and treat the body as material, addressing its organic functions and spiritual potential as well as its cultural implications. The nature of the approach is eclectic and sources from ‘chi’ cultivation techniques such as Qi Gong and Pranayama (breathing techniques), spine and limbs patterns explorations (body connectivity, proprioceptive systems), hands-on work (experimental body-alchemy teaching from Sara Shelton Mann) and elements of improvisation to transmute through different states.

Read more about this module: www.smash-berlin.com/modules/modul4.html

The deadline to apply for SMASH #9 3-month intensive program is May 1st, 2017
More info: www.smash-berlin.com

Introducing SMASH #9 - module #3
the journey of theory – dancing the problem
Diego Agulló
Oct 09 – Oct 27, 2017

"How to practice theory? In which way is art a form of theory?
Our starting point will be to stop understanding theory only as a production of discourse and rather to consider it as an oscillatory movement or, in other words, a journey of traveling abroad and returning.
To articulate problems implies to throw out difficulties; bodies become puzzles thrown into the distance, a difficulty transforms the scenario into a problematic dance floor. Problems turn the situation into a turbulent event, into a domain of dangerous influences."

Read more about this module: www.smash-berlin.com/modules/modul3.html

The deadline to apply for SMASH #9 3-month intensive program is May 1st, 2017
More info: www.smash-berlin.com

Introducing SMASH #9 - module #2
Jared Gradinger
“human gardening”
Sep 18 – Sep 29, 2017

"We are not necessarily talking about including ‘nature’ in our work, rather acknowledging the fact that it is already there, as a reality, an intelligence and as everything we can perceive with our five senses. So how can we work with it rather than it for us?" (…) We will do our best to work with nature as the provider of your means and matter and action. We will attempt to treat our projects and practices and life as we would a garden."
Read more about this module: www.smash-berlin.com/modules/modul2.html

The deadline to apply for SMASH #9 3-month intensive program is May 1st, 2017.
More info: www.smash-berlin.com

Dear Tex Hobijn, thank you for your passion, your laughter, your sensitive fragility...may your Soul keep dancing and discovering with us all.

*Rest in Peace*
yours truly
SMASH team

Introducing SMASH #9 module #1
Anna Nowicka
"dreamstates"

Aug 28 – Sep 15, 2017
The creative work I propose will specifically focus on the practice of dreaming aware, and on becoming awake to the ongoing dreaming process that is accompanying our conscious existence, allowing this continuous flow of sensations, feelings and images to in-form the body, influence its presence and become the source of actions.

Read more about this module: www.smash-berlin.com/modules/modul1.html

The deadline to apply for SMASH #9 3-month intensive program is May 1st, 2017
More info: www.smash-berlin.com

The trailer of SMASH Berlin #9 program is out!

SMASH Berlin #9 | 3-month intensive programm
with Alessio Castellacci, Anna Nowicka, Jared Gradinger, Diego Agulló and Maria F. Scaroni
Berlin | Aug 21 – Nov 10, 2017

more info: www.smash-berlin.com

SMASH Berlin 2017 trailer www.smash-berlin.com camera: Alessio Castellacci, Kata Kovács video/sound editing: Lisa Stewart music: Alessio Castellacci SMASH Berlin 2017 intensive traini...

Introducing SMASH #9 introductory week
Aug 21 – Aug 25, 2017
Alessio Castellacci "the synesthetic body"

A synesthetic experience takes place every time the information gathered through one organ of perception triggers a sensorial impression by automatic free-association in another perceptive organ. On a larger scale, this dynamic reminds us of the elusive nature of creativity and how this is deeply rooted in the sensing body. From this point of view, the phenomenon of synesthesia will serve as a conceptual catalyst to reveal the non-linear dynamics underlying any creation process.

Read more about this module:
http://www.smash-berlin.com/modules/modul0.html
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The deadline to apply for SMASH #9 | 3-month intensive program is May 1st, 2017

More info: www.smash-berlin.com

Some highlights from yesterday's open studio session from Maria F. Scaroni's module "foam".

This was the last showing in this year's program. If you're interested in participating next year, tune in again at the beginning of 2017 for the call for participation in next year's program.