CREATION
Amorange - An Emotional Illusion in Orange
A dance solo performed and created by Nona Siepmann.
The solo reflects on the subjective realities that we live in and how our thoughts and our believe effect the reality and perspective that we are perceiving.
Amorange is a reflection process that we pass through always again and again.
There is a live-performance in various length from 7 to 20 minutes long, adjustable to different performative places aka realities.
A video-version is going to tour in (Dance-)Filmfestivals in 2023.
Collaboration AKYUTE
For the past month I investigated alongside with Akyute (Magdalena Hart & Natalia Gima) the possibilities that arise when a performative body comes together with technology.
Inspired by Haraway’s definition of the cybernetic organism, we drew interest in the influence technology can have over our body gestures and movements, whilst also observing the influence a body can have over the interactive system itself and what expressions arise.
We are developing an audiovisual system that, based on nona‘s movements, produces 3D projections in real time based on artificial intelligence (AI).
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media with the program NEUSTART KULTUR.
Nares - Interdisciplinary Exchange
With interdisciplinary artists we are exchanging international perspectives, exploring movement, sound, photography, film, light design and spaces.
SOLO WORK
Within my study, Dance in Education, I developed three solos. In all these pieces I developed a certain character/creature who explores space, different materials and the use of impulsive movements and reactions.
Human behaviour and social conventions are often the origin of my inspiration.
Nokerina is the result of the need to translate the creational processes of my solo work to a general method of working which enables me to work in a similar way with a bigger group of artists.
NOKERINA 1
Nokerina 1 consists of the first explorations to create a performance together with an interdisciplinary group of artists. I started with open art sessions where I developed universal tools to trigger the unreserved and pure creativity as an agreeing base for all the artists, no matter which artistic discipline they come from. The individual art skills, like dancing, playing an instrument, designing and more, are the tools of an artist to be able to express his/her own creativity.
In the end of the process I created a performance based on the outcome of the art sessions together with eight artists.
Concept: Nona Siepmann
Artists: Elena Foster (Dance), Gorik Bellemans (Dance), Marlene Klodwig (Dance), Elsa Steixner (Singing and Acting), Bene Müller (Guitar), Lotta Wessels (Free Artist), Miri Pieps (Free Artist), Ellen Preus (Violin)
Presented @ Festival de Oversteek 2019
NOKERINA 2
Nokerina 2 is the supplemental solo work to the performance Nokerina 3 which is created by an interdisciplinary team of artists. The solo is based on the wish to create a performance with a social or political relevance. The inspiration of this work is the German constitution and cress as representation of artificial nature which humans create in order to feel ‘natural’ and ‘pure’ while depending
on a structural system.
Choreography and Dance: Nona Siepmann
NOKERINA 3
Nokerina 3 is the performative result of my Bachelor Thesis. After developing a method of interdisciplinary working within Nokerina 1, the question was how to create a socio-critical or political performance whereby the audience can experience a reflection on their own daily conformist behaviour patterns.
To answer that question, I let myself be inspired by the work of Ruppe Koselleck, Augusto Boal and Rimini Protokoll and built up a toolbox to create my own performance.
Together with eleven artists I set up a maze where the audience could experience different perspective of conformist behaviour and gets empowered to make their own conscious choices regarding their acting within the performance as a practise for their daily life.
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic the work was never presented.
Concept: Nona Siepmann
Dramaturgy: Ari Tezelaar and Nona Siepmann
Artists: Gorik Bellemans (Dance), Justus Berger (Composing), Kim Jäger (Music), Marlene Klodwig (Dance), Omar Salem (Fine Art), Leon Senger (Music), Elsa Steixner (Music and Acting), Ari Tazelaar (Dance and Dramaturgy), Jonas Westendorp (Interaction Design), Eva de Jager (Dance), Sophie Heupnik (Fine Art)