Raise The Roof 2010/2007
Raise The Roof (London), 2010
Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, London, 2010, performance duration 6:35 min
Raise The Roof (Catania), 2010
Others, Palazzo Valle, Catania 2010, performance duration 8:30 min
Raise The Roof (Berlin), 2007
Abwehr Performance-Festival, Berlin, 2007, performance, duration 5:42 min
(photo credit: Daniela Kohl)
Raise The Roof, T-Shirt Edition (Berlin), 2007
Nylon stockings in CMYK colors and white shirts with CMYK silkprints of each song title and length
Raise The Roof (London), 2010
Performance at the roof during the show Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, London, 2010
Raise The Roof (Catania), 2010
Performance for the opening reception of the exhibition Others, Palazzo Valle, Catania 2010
Raise The Roof (Berlin), 2007
Abwehr Performance-Festival, Berlin, 2007
Four
female dancers move, each one for herself, to songs that cannot be
heard by the viewer. With their stiletto heels they appear to tear up
the tar covered rooftop; the electronically amplified sound of these
charged dance steps create a new wild hearing experience, which in turn
unites the isolated movement of the dancers. The performence takes place
on a former border section between West and East Berlin; this roof
served as a patrol route for GDR border soldiers and was heavily
guarded. This performance is the initial point for the video Raise the Roof. It
deals with the connotation of control, and the liberation from it, the
affiliation to a group, and the isolation within such through expression
of a – specifically female – resistance. (excerpt from the text by Anke
Hoffmann)