Brig Huezo
Post Digital Bodies with Sahra.Zaniah
Past dates
8/15/23
4:00 PM
The workshop is exclusively for BIPoC* performers and choreographers. Please only register if you identify as such.
POST DIGITAL BODIES is a motion capture workshop by the artist Brig Huezo in the context of the exhibition WE ARE IN HELL WHEN WE HURT EACH OTHER by Jacolby Satterwhite. Participants will create virtual choreographic sequences using motion capture suits and motion capture trackers, learn the basics of the technology in order to experiment with it and integrate it into their own choreographic practice. The workshop will be supported by performance artist Sahra.Zaniah: With her focus on contemporary dance and Vogue Femme, she critically interrogates MoCap technology regarding its potential to empower marginalised perspectives, bodies and styles in dance.
*This refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous, and or have been racialized as “ethnic minorities”. So please only book this workshop if you identify with these terms.
Brigitte Huezo is a dancer, performer and choreographer. They were born in El Salvador and currently work and live in Cologne, after earning a BA in Dance at the University of Music and Dance Cologne in 2021 with the support of the DAAD and private scholarships. They are interested in deconstructing our perception of the body and its future in an increasingly technological and virtual world. Proceeding from dance, they deal with various media interfaces by combining, Film, 3D design, technology, and fashion in their pieces. Their works are often in collaborative and interdiciplinary settings. Their works as a choreographer have been shown at PACT Zollverein, Transeuropa X Festival, Tanz.tausch Festival, and Tanzhaus NRW. As a dancer and performer, they have worked in diverse performative settings e.g. Nick Mauss, Treatise on the Veil, Museum Ludwig Köln, Young Boy Dancing Group, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, and GOLA, Reut
Sahra.Zaniah is a Hamburg based multidisciplinary performance artist with a main focus on Contemporary Dance and Vogue Femme. She recently finishing her 3-year diploma studies at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg. In 2017 she joined the Ballroom Scene, where she is known as a member of the Iconic House of Revlon and the German Mother of the Kiki House of Marciano, traveling and winning Balls all around Europe in the category “Woman’s Performance”. She often has critical approach to current societal streams in her performances. Her repertoire reaches through Theatre, Festivals, Video & TV, including works and performances by and for: José Vidal, The Voice of Germany, Sony Music X Beyoncé, Mable Preach, LiLA, About You Pangea Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Red Bull DYS, etc.
