ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Doppelgänger Workshop encourages audience participation.

Berlin and Vienna based artist and choreographer Isabel Lewis designs participatory situations to explore our relationships with one another, particularly how we are socialized to behave as groups. For Doppelgänger Workshop, Lewis has invited artistic collaborators Niall Jones, nora chipaumire, Marguerite Hemmings, Kris Lee, Majesty Royale-Jackson, and Ishmael Houston-Jones to participate in a collective compositional process, to explore the dynamics of group behavior using movement and sound, based on a series of scores she has devised.

Inspired by Hélène Landemore’s Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century and Naomi Klein’s polemic book Doppelgänger, Lewis’s Doppelgänger Workshop will explore the uncanny mirroring that occurs in social and political life, to consider moments in which oppositional views intersect and mimic one another. Lewis is interested in considering how seemingly dichotomous political positions—for example, the concepts of “right” and “left”, “conservative” and “liberal” that historically have dominated culture—have lost their contemporary anchor points.

The workshop is open to audience participation: everyone with an interest and willingness to move and think through ideas in space is welcome. The primary focus is on moving, doing, and creating together. The participants of Doppelgänger Workshop will co-create, dance, and make sound as a means of examining the conditions—the shifting social and political landscapes—under which we encounter one another.

DAY 1: Wednesday, 11/19 — 1:00 PM–7:00 PM

1:00–2:00 PM — Reading / Somatic Group

2:00–3:00 PM — Communal E.P.I.C. (Experience in Performing Instantly Created Fiction)

3:00–3:45 PM — Break (Soundscape)

3:45–4:45 PM — Unambitious Stripper or On Seeing and Being Seen or Preparing the Eye to Hold Another Gently

4:45–5:45 PM — Soundscape and Open Space

5:45–7:00 PM — Doppelgänger Workshop

DAY 2: Thursday, 11/20 — 3:00 PM–9:00 PM

3:00–4:00 PM — Reading / Somatic Group

4:00–5:00 PM — Communal E.P.I.C.(Experience in Performing Instantly Created Fiction)

5:00–5:45 PM — Break (Soundscape)

6:45–7:45 PM — Unambitious Stripper or On Seeing and Being Seen or Preparing the Eye to Hold Another Gently

7:45–8:45 PM — Soundscape and Open Space

8:45–9:00 PM — Doppelgänger Workshop

DAY 3: Friday, 11/21 — 3:00 PM–9:00 PM

3:00–4:00 PM — Reading / Somatic Group

4:00–5:00 PM — Communal E.P.I.C.(Experience in Performing Instantly Created Fiction)

5:00–5:45 PM — Break (Soundscape)

6:45–7:45 PM — Unambitious Stripper or On Seeing and Being Seen or Preparing the Eye to Hold Another Gently

7:45–8:45 PM — Soundscape and Open Space

8:45–9:00 PM — Doppelgänger Workshop

DAY 4: Saturday, 11/22 — 12:00 PM–6:00 PM

12:00–1:00 PM — Reading / Somatic Group

1:00–2:45 PM — Break (Soundscape)

2:45–3:45 PM — Unambitious Stripper or On Seeing and Being Seen or Preparing the Eye to Hold Another Gently

3:45–4:45 PM — Soundscape and Open Space

4:45–6:00 PM — Doppelgänger Workshop

DAY 5: Sunday, 11/23 — 12:00 PM–6:00 PM

12:00–1:00 PM — Reading / Somatic Group

1:00–2:45 PM — Break (Soundscape)

2:45–3:45 PM — Unambitious Stripper or On Seeing and Being Seen or Preparing the Eye to Hold Another Gently

3:45–4:45 PM — Soundscape and Open Space

4:45–6:00 PM — Doppelgänger Workshop

ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.