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Burn Time

André Uerba

Is a performance and an ephemeral installation for up to 16 bodies where the choreography unfolds from the gesture of burning threads. On the borders of sculpture and architecture – this new creation thought as a site-specific piece, is a tour through a meditative landscape, a decelerating landscape. The space is dark and defined by an installation of hanging cotton threads. Gradually – one after the other and sometimes several at the same time – threads will be set alight, creating a slow-motion space of incessant changing and fading. Everything is reduced to a quiet and profound pace. 

In a time of ongoing existential and distracting wars between being in the present and future projections, “Burn Time” is a sort of obligation to acknowledge the moment and to indulge into the here and now. 

Concept & Artistic Direction André Uerba
Dramaturgical Advice Thomas Schaupp
Local Performers 5 – 16 locals
Sculptures and Sound André Uerba
Light Design André Uerba, Gretchen Blegen
Production SHORT HOPE
Co-Production Walk&Talk Azores (Portugal) & PTL – Plesni Teater Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Residency Support
O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal), PACT Zollverein (Essen, Germany), Tanzfabrik (Berlin, Germany)
Support/ Funded by Senate Department for Culture and Europe
Thanks to Alessandro Bortolazzo, Alejandro Karasik, Andrea Sozzi, Anna Posch, Bárbara Torres, Catarina Saraiva, Cathy Walsh, Chris Leuenberger, Clément Layes, Emily Jeffries, Jasna Layes Vinovrski, Jenny Beyer, Juan Felipe Amaya, Julia Rodriguez, Ligia Soares, Maddy White, Marc P. Gabriel, Matthew Rogers, Mauricia B. Neves, Olivia McGregor, Pia Kramer, Reza Mirabi, Rui Horta, Tiago Barbosa, Tiago Gandra, Vasco Mosa. 

Video Documentation
– BURN TIME (Berlin) http://www.tanzforumberlin.de/produktion/burn-time/

Photo Documentation 
https://shorthope.org/Burn-Time 

André Uerba (1983, Lisbon) develops both collaborative and solo works along the intersection of performance and visual arts. Berlin based since 2013, Uerba holds a Masters degree in Arts, “Solo/ Dance/ Authorship” at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK/ HZT), 2013-2015. He previously studied advanced photography at Ar.Co (Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Lisbon), where he was a grant holder in 2010.In 2011 he took part in “Encontros Rumo”, a laboratory for young choreographers mentored by Vera Mantero and in 2013 he received the Centro Nacional de Cultura’s (Portugal) Young Creator grant to develop the work “Terrarium”. Since 2007 Uerba has been working as artistic collaborator, group coordinator and performer with the duo Ana Borralho & João Galante. Among others André worked with Alexandra Pirici, Antonija Livingstone, Carlota Lagido, Clement Layes, Christian Falsnaes, Felix Ruckert, Sandra Man / Moritz Majce, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Willi Dorner and more recently with Tino Sehgal, performing the piece “This is so Contemporary” at Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, 2018). Along side working as a performer with various artists, Uerba founded the production house SHORT HOPE, a label designed to produce, create and promote his work.

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