PICTURES OF THE PROJECT

You will find a comprehensive pictorial over-view of the project here.

Let's Talk About Love : Berlin : Compilation

100 minutes of video, 41 performances on YouTube, 23 dancers, 15 locations, 13 meetings, 9 discussions about love, 4 studio rehearsals, 1 group dinner, 1 alleged copyright violation, 1 blog.

200 million album sales, 200 songs - 198 about love, 172 career awards, 16 brothers and sisters, 11 world tours, 1 custom built arena in Las Vegas, 1 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix, 1 Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 1 Order of Canada, 1 Legion D'Honneur, 1 husband/manager and 1 son.

Love comes to those who believe it, and that's the way it is.

La Diva

19 May 2008
Location: Stella's apartment, Berlin
Featuring: Dewa Bertschi, Stella Kiesslinger, Karla Novozimsky and Thereza Pommerenke

Cass Ginsberg

Cass travelled around the globe as a child with her family and now lives in Berlin, she is German. She is also a talented singer. Her dance background centres around Butoh and recently performed at Dock 11 in Berlin.

Dewa, Stella, Karla and Thereza

Dewa Bertschi, Stella Kiesslinger, Karla Novozimsky and Thereza Pommerenke are all undertaking their vorausbildnung at the Tanz Fabrik in Berlin. They finished high school last year. Dewa is Swiss and Stella, Karla and Thereza come form Stuttgart. Stella is travelling to Honduras after the course and Thereza would like to go to the North of Sweden where her father has a farm that hosts cultural projects. They all had a Steiner education and studied 13 years of Eurythmics. 3 of the 4 girls work at the same call centre near Warschauerstrasse. They are not absolutely determined to have a professional dance career, but they like dance, they have time now to give it a go and they want to move. They might continue one day with Tanztherapie.

Helga Wretman

Helga grew up in the theatre. She was a member of the Isadora Duncan inspired D Company in Stockholm and continued her dance studies in Stockholm. She moved to Berlin to pursue projects – not necessarily always sticking to the Contemporary Dance scene, although she does create her own choreographies. She has participated in the production of films, been a Bacardi dancer, performed at Gala’s for DHL, created choreographies for commercials and also freelanced for various choreographers in Sweden and Germany.

Carpark Rehearsal

14 May 2008
Location: Courtyard/car park, Tanz Fabrik, Berlin
Featuring: Melissa Maldonado, Mari Flønes, Isabell Gerschke, Jessyka Watson-Galbraith & Masha Pyatkova.

Photo's of Rehearsals

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Dance Critique in Berlin

Check out tanzpresse.de for indpendent critique of the Contemporary Dance scene in Berlin. It features writing about the smaller shows that don't make it into the Deutsche Zeitung. It debuted in 2007, and at present is in German, however, it is planning to cover international performances in the very near future.

Melissa Maldonado

Melissa comes from a Puerto Rican heritage, but grew up in Queens, New York. As a child she took ballet and tap dance with Miss Gloria, but always envied older girls who got to take the flamenco classes. Whilst studying at Colombia University in New York (originally she studied Engineering, later switching major's to Art History) she took many dance classes and surprisingly was re-united with Miss Gloria, finally having the opportunity to learn Classical Spanish Dance. She now teaches Flamenco and other dance styles at a new-style multi-lingual school in Berlin, where she has lived since 2000. It has taken her six years to obtain her Niederlassungerlaubnis and now she is able to stay in Berlin and work in any field she chooses. Melissa is a member of the Let's Talk About Love cast in Berlin. See her website.

Rehearsal Schedule for Performance in Berlin

LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE : INFORMATION FOR DANCERS

JESSYKA WATSON-GALBRAITH
Australian choreographer living in Stockholm.
jessyka_wg@yahoo.co.uk
Berlin telephone : 0152 24045252

BLOG FOR PROJECT
http://www.letstalkaboutloveproject.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/jessykabarbara

DINNER
19:00 – Tuesday 13 May – Torstrasse (near Rosenthaler Platz)

REHEARSALS

12:00 – 15:00 Wednesday 14 May Tanz Fabrik, Moeckernstr. 68, Berlin
12:00 – 15:00 Tuesday 20 May Tanz Fabrik, Moeckernstr. 68, Berlin
16:00 – 20:00 Thursday 22 May fabrik Potsdam
16:00 – 20:00 Friday 23 May fabrik Potsdam

PERFORMANCE – SUNDAY 25 MAY – FABRIK POTSDAM
TIME TBC Technical rehearsal
18:00 Closing night of the fabrik Potsdam Tanztage Festival

FABRIK POTSDAM
http://www.fabrikpotsdam.de
Schiffbauergasse 10 D-14467 Potsdam
Telephone : 0331 280 0314

CONTACT : Ulrike Melzweg
residenzen@fabrikpotsdam.de

DIRECTIONS TO POTSDAM

Take S7 or 7 to the last stop Potsdam Hauptbahnhof – from Alexanderplatz/Friedrichstrasse
Then take tram 93/94/99 to the stop HOLZMARKTSTRASSE
http://www.fahrinfo-berlin.de (FAHRPLANSKUNFT)

See also http://www.schiffbauergasse.de for more info about the area.

FEMALE DANCERS REQUIRED

For 30-minute performance, a display of devotion for Celine Dion, Love and Dance. All synthesizers, drum breakdowns, artificial wind and web-cams.

Performance date: Sunday 25 May

Venue: fabrik Potsdam - Closing night of the fabrik Potsdam Tanztage Festival

The production of this work is in line with the Tanztage Festival. We commence the day the festival commences, the 12 May, and we premiere as the last performance of the festival, the 25 May. We will have 14 days to assemble/create the piece. I emphasise this project will operate on a part-time basis.

There will be three en masse rehearsals as well as individual rehearsals to create the on-line aspect of the project.

Overall – this is an opportunity to make a dance work with a group of people we don’t know so well and experiment with the conditions under which we produce dance performances and the audiences we make them for. To let our hair down and forget about centring our bodies and minds and get whipped up in a soft flurry of epic-power ballads.

Skills Required: As this piece will be assembled/created and then performed in a very short period, dancers must be able to pick up material quickly. It is not necessary to be excessively experienced or virtuosic, just a basic understanding of jazz and contemporary movement. We encourage copying and following other dancers on stage. Our philosophy is, if you can’t quite get the steps right at least do something that resembles it.

Please contact jessyka_wg@yahoo.co.uk for further information.