Postcards from Berlin

Initiated and directed by Jo Parkes, Mobiledance / www.mobiledance.org

We send postcards when we are in a place that we want our friends to see. They are an act of engagement with a place - we select which image we want to show, we write a short message which conveys our experience of the place and we send this communication to someone else – looking forward to hearing their response. Postcards are, at least in part, “showing off” – look where I am and how great it is!
With a choreographer, filmmaker and composer classes of young people will create 30 – 60 second dance films – “dancing postcards” of their city.
Working in small groups, students will choose a location in their city which they would like someone who lives overseas to see; the image they would choose if sending a postcard. They will investigate the meaning of their chosen location for them – why it is important, what it says about their city, how they relate to it. Inspired by the location and their relationship to it, the students will create movement material, which they will then shoot and edit to make a short film. Working with a composer, they will create a soundtrack for their film.
The films will be developed and formatted for distribution on mobile phones, MP3 players and the Internet. In cities where the infrastructure exists, we will also seek screenings of the films on the public transport network.

public screening : May 2009 in Berlin U-Bahn / "Berliner Fenster"

Team at Haus- Otter- Grundschule:
Directing Choreographer: Jenny Haack
Assistent: Francisco Cuervo
Videofilmmaker: Yoann Trellu
Sound/Musician: Anders Ehlin

Dauergäste
Kooperation mit dem Theaterhaus Jena
September 2008

Studio Eins
im Rahmen von "Augenblick mal!- Deutsches Kinder-und Jugendtheatertreffen"
27.04.-02.05.2005
Initiiert von Aktionstheater Kassel / www.aktionstheaterkassel.de