Sudden Starlings Collective
Sudden Starlings is a collective based in Berlin-Brandenburg and founded by Eva Burghardt, Elma Riza, Susanne Soldan.
Our research as a collective is articulated around the notions of Instant Composition and public space. We explore these two themes through movement and video, in relation to places, their histories, their architecture…
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PRODUCTIONS
INDESSEN
A Sudden Starlings Collective production.
Eisenhüttenstadt, 2023
Video Format 4K _ 16:9
Duration: 08:36 min.
Dance: Eva Burghardt & Susanne Soldan
Video: Elma Riza
Indoor swimming pool in Eisenhüttenstadt – over 20 years shut.
Outside, a flood of rain. Inside, low tide. Chairs where water once was.
A GDR mosaic presides over the pool. Time stands.
Two performers dive into the dry pool, board the scenery, clear the space.
They ease themselves in, reverberate with chairs, mosaic, hall.
The latest lines, yet not the last, on this long-lived, left and lone tile skin.
INDESSEN is an encounter with emptiness.
INDESSEN is a sense of past life and future potential.
INDESSEN is in-between and however.
Video shooting in the teaching swimming pool hall of the former school V/POS Juri Gagarin in Eisenhüttenstadt.
Tile mosaic ceramic in the background from 1965 by Rudolf Grunemann.
Many thanks to the key figures of this project: Martin Maleschka and Reinder Wijnveld.
Thanks to the Museum Utopia and Everyday Life for the provision and permission to use the seating furniture.
Supported by “Tanzinitiative Brandenburg” – TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund,
a project of the fabrik Potsdam in cooperation with the Tanzwerkstatt Cottbus,
supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, the State Capital Potsdam and the City of Cottbus.
GRUNDstück
2022, Potsdam
Video Format 4K _ 16:9
Dauer: 13:07min
GRUNDstück by Eva Burghardt, Elma Riza & Susanne Soldan – in cooperation with Fabrik moves and DiR – Dance in Residence Brandenburg
Referring to the title of the exhibition FIGUR-GRUND 2 at Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam, Eva Burghardt, Elma Riza & Susanne Soldan open up the urban-public space of the city in a dance-filmic way and thereby move the moving FIGURE as an urban design parameter into the foreground and/or background. In the play of the city, the dancing body relates to the surrounding architecture and thus complements the urban choreography through its presence or points to its absence.
GRUNDStück illuminates how dance can be made visible (in) the city and questions, as it were, who or what becomes visible in the cityscape, when and in what way.
The video work was created as part of the two-week residency DiR-DANCE IN RESIDENCE BRANDENBURG.
AUSSER ORT
Site specific Video _ Vulkanfiberfabrik Werder
A collaboration with Eva Burghardt, Mireia Aragones, Susanne Soldan, Florian Knoblich 9min36 / Full HD _ 16:9
2021
Ausser Ort is a site-specific dance film in which 4 dancers* enter into a moving dialogue with the site of the Vulkanfiberfabrik in Werder (Havel). This urban and yet abandoned place, marked by the change of time, serves as a space of inspiration and action for the dance exploration.
Many places in Brandenburg are neglected, sometimes they are made usable again as cultural spaces. But the transformation of the urban landscape is omnipresent in our everyday lives. And this project is a way to revive a place whose creative potential is enormous.
With the kind support of the Microgrant III from the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.
Elma Riza 