BRENDA ISABEL

STEINECKE SOTO

PORTFOLIO

2017

I work around an expanded concept of choreography and am mostly interested

in site-specific projects. I also regard choreographic work and thinking in a

contemporary context as an ongoing social experiment in which collective, non-

hierarchical creation processes are being tested.

In the last time I keep on asking myself how to connect my artistic work to my

social and political engagement and the result has been a series of interventions

in public places, as well as a documentary performance, both formats relating

the artistic work to the physical and social spaces I inhabit.

Once during a workshop, a participant gave the best definition about

contemporary dance, I've ever heard. She said 'contemporary dance is art with

the body'.

CHOREOGRAPHY

DANCE

ORDERED BODIES Artistic Intervention in Medellin’s metro Medellin 2017 Concept & Artistic Direction: Brenda I. Steinecke Soto Performers: Kirstin Burckhardt, James Santiago Rodriguez, Gina Alejandra Sicard, León Orozco, Astrid Aristizabal, Carolina Oz, Oscar Molina This intervention was realized as part of the collaborative work between visual artist Kirstin Burckhardt and Brenda I. Steinecke Soto in the framework of Kirstins Artist-in-Residency at Espacio Arte Foundation in Medellín (Febraury – March 2017). The metro in Medellín is a ‘place other’ in the social-environmental context of the city. It is a place where strict rules are followed and users have developed a deep sense of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ due to the propaganda stablished by the administration company around the so called ‘cultura metro’ (metro culture), focused on installing an ‘appropriate’ behavior by means of control. Our intervention explored the thin line in social performances between what is ‘usual’ and ‘allowed’ and what was about to transgress that line in a performative way, intending to stablish non-verbal communication with the other passengers.

NATURE OF TOOLS Documentary Performance

Medellin, November 2016

NDLH Trailer

Concept and artistic direction: Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto

Performance y music: Adrián Ruiz Amariles

Music: Pablo Ruiz Ameriles and Don León Ruiz Amariles

Video: Oscar Molina

Photos: Gabriel Ortiz

Scenic proposal which takes the biography of a young man from Santa Elena, a rural region belonging to the city of Medellin, as a departing point for

the creation. The work intends to question imaginaries about a rural identity. This project interlaces the possibilities of invention, play and questioning

open by the mise-en-scene with the gestural and intentional honesty of an individual empowered to be himself on stage.

During 2016, in collaboration with young people from Santa Elena, we proposed and organized the First Youth Forum on Cultural Heritage of Santa

Elena, a two month event motivating discussions and reflections and offering activities around the relationship between the rich cultural heritage of

Santa Elena and the youth culture of its junior population. This project is a result of that experience, intertwining topics of social and historical

relevance with the individual narratives of a young man, belonging to a peasant tradition.

With the support:

PP Cultura, Alcaldía de Medellín

Espacio Arte Foundation

HABITAR Showing of the ongoing research

Medellin, December 2015

Artistic direction: Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto, Mercedes Pedroche, Cristobal B. Corvalán

Performance: Danielle Sepúlveda, Astrid Aristizabal, Adrián Ruiz Amariles, Marly Rivera, Marlly López, Francois Lizé, Cristobal B. Corvalán, Brenda I.

Steinecke Soto.

Photo: Gabriel Ortiz

Artistic occupation of specific places, relating physically to the material and social environment. During this process we looked to explore and generate practices on how to inhabit spaces from a scenic point of view. The creative process of HABITAR developed through research labs, focused on asking how the presence of performing bodies in the public space can be and interact with a spectator without expectations. The choreographic setting was developed to play with the subtle qualities of actions being ‘ordinary’, ‘performative’ or both. With the support of: Espacio Arte Foundation EPM Foundation

ERIAL Series of performances, video and photography MDE 15 Historias Locales / Prácticas Globales. International Arts Encounter 2015 Teaser Concept & Artistic Direction: Cristóbal Barra Corvalán (Chile) Dance: Christóbal B. Corvalán, Brenda I. Steinecke Soto, Astrid Aristizabal, Sergio Bedoya ERIAL is an arts laboratory lead by Chilean choreographer Cristóbal B. Corvalán, exploring spaces in the city which have been reconquered by nature, asking for the possibilities of camouflage in an unexpected environment and analyzing what appearing / disappearing means in a performative sense. This project was realized as part of LUGAR A LA DERIVA, an Artist-in-Residency in the framework of the MDE 15 Historias Locales / Prácticas Globales. International Arts Encounter 2015.

OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR Site-specific choreography and sound-body-installation. Within the framework of the choreographic trilogy NEARLY THERE Bassendanse Project in Mojo Club Hamburg, july 2015 NEARLY THERE_Trailer Concept, artistic direction, production and dance: Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto. Sound Installation, Music and dramaturgic mentoring: Tobias Gronau Burlesque-Performance, dance and concept: Francesca Lötscher / Koko La Douce Production, dance, photography, dramaturgical mentoring: Swanhild Kruckelmann, Antoine Effroy Dance, performance: Tobias Schaller, Larissa Keat, Stephen Hess, Ana Goncalves, Martin Freiling, Boris Keil. Light design and technics: Bernd Welte Ton Technics: Florian Wienbreier Photo: Steffen Gottschling Where are you? Someone asks on the phone. Your current location is temporarily unavailable, answers the voice. The coordinates in riot. Where is 'here'? Who is 'you'? We look after the possibility to get closer. But the spaces in-between and the distances allow us an approximation. Together with the Burlesque-Performer Koko La Douce and the musician Tobias Gronau, objects in mirror understands distance as a mean to get closer. Bassedanse Project in co-production with the Mojo Club Hamburg. Funded by: Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., Bezirksamt Hamburg-Mitte, Instituto de Cultura y Patrimonio de Antioquia, Institut Francais Hamburg. With the support of: K3-Zentrum für Choreografie | Tanzplan Hamburg, Bühnenstudio der Darstellende Künste, Tango Matrix

VERTICO Choreographic Installation. Performing arts onto the Dancefloor #1 - #3 Bassedanse Project in Mojo Club Hamburg, july2013 Performing arts onto the Dancefloor #1_Trailer Concept, choreography, performance, production: Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto Music: Tobias Gronau Dance, performance: Andrea Stimper, Annemarie Falkenhein, Don Schmidt, Karla Hennersdorf, Martin Freiling, Milena Pieper, Sebastian Schalück, Swanhild Kruckelmann Lighting Design: Kathrin Bethge Photo: Guido Wilken The situation during the entry at a party night gave the first impulse for this work. People standing around, dressed up and expecting the fun-time coming. The movement repertoire is reduced and asks for the possibilities of the vertical axis, of the mobility when standing and of the processes which always underlay to a state. As an installation, the piece invites to reflect upon our tendency to construct intentions and meanings between bodies and movement relations when they are placed close to each other in space. Bassedanse Project in co-production with the Mojo Club Hamburg.

DES SCHLAFES KLEINE SCHWESTER Multimedia-Performance in collaboration with the collective INPERSPEKT (Hamburg) KulturA Allermöhe und MS Stubniz July and September 2011

Concept, artistic direction, performance: Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto, Ralf Meyer Zé, Ulrich Raatz Visuals, sound: Felix Zilles-Perels, Ulrich Raatz, heinrich Grotksten, Jan-Felix Permien, Jonas Jaenick (INPERSPEKT) Guitar: Sergio Javier Menchu Vanegas Danz, performance: Cornelia Maier, Lynne Pankow, Caroline Heinecke Photo: Steffen Gottschling A performance which uses the means of video-projection, movement and sound to question our usual perceptions of space and time. Performers and audience likewise, go astray in inner and outer spaces.

DREI STÜCK SOLO Dance Performance Eiegnarten Festival Hamburg, 2011 Concept: Ursina Tossi, Brenda I. Steinecke Soto and Johannes Mietke. Choreography and dance: Ursina Tossi and Brenda I. Steinecke Soto Sound: Johannes Mietke Missing a duett-partner, a lover, a place. Two different solo sequences on ‘absence’ were developed independently. The two choreographers decide to collaborate departing from their different styles, creating a new common aesthetic space of interaction. A third agent accompanies them: a sound-installation whose presence becomes an equivalent partner on stage.

TRY OUT Tanz-Installation inspired by "Francis Bacon, Logique de la Sensation", an essay by Gilles Deleuze about the painting of Francis Bacon. Artist-in-Residency at k3 Choreografisches Zentrum | Tanzplan Deutschland Hamburg, 2009 Concept and choreography: Antoine Effroy Dance: Brenda I. Steinecke Soto, Anna Meisner, Bettina Knopf. Can the stage be a place of the non-imagination? A place of pure action, something dedicated to the figure, the shape? A field of activity without focus, without a determined duration, without beginning and end? Is it possible to install actions on stage, opperating without dramaturgical, choreographic or conceptual execution but still being something which is enough for itself and which, like a painting, will exist and have a meaning independently from an observer? Supported by: k3 Choreografisches Zentrum | Tanzplan Deutschland

POST-IT Performance and intervention at a public space during the Fringe Festival / Kaltstart Hamburg As part of the festival All1 Forum: NO SECRET GARDEN Hamburgo, July 2010 Photos Documentation Concept and choreography: Brenda Steinecke y Ursina Tossi Performers: Johannes Mietke, Guido Wilken, Steffen Gottschling, Anna Meisner, Thorsten Ries, Gonzalo Barahona, Ursina Tossi y Brenda I. Steinecke Soto. This intervention starts at the sistematic observation of the constant fluxus of thoughts in our mind, as it is usual in meditation. A groupe of performers gather in a public space interacting along the idea of ‘meeting other persons from the heart’. White shits of paper are around. Performers and audience are invited to write their thoughts and left them fall into the ground behind them. A selforganizing installation in space is created collectively. Supported by: all1 Forum: NO SECRET GARDEN

ARTISTIC DIRECTION DRAMATURGY

ÁRIDO, SEDA [UN CAMINO] Dance piece Pequeño Teatro Medellín, 2016 Trailer Concept, artistic direction and script: Mercedes Pedroche and Juan Felipe Caicedo Choreography and dance: Mercedes Pedroche Dramaturgy and production: Brenda I. Steinecke Soto Editing Sound-Space: Samuel Ignasio Rojas Lightening: Isabel Montoya Photo: Gabriel Ortiz ÁRIDO, SEDA [UN CAMINO] is a scenic encounter between dance and theatre unfolding around the question: why do we humans tend to attach to the circumstances which keep us living in a gear, repeating constantly similar situation? The piece stablishes a physical and verbal dialog between a Woman on stage and the audience members, sharing a space to interact and manifest reciprocally. Funded by: Alcaldía de Medellín Supported by: Pequeño teatro, Espacio Arte Foundation

NEARLY THERE Choreographic Trilogy Bassendanse Project in Mojo Club Hamburg, May - August 2015 NEARLY THERE_Trailer Concept, artistic direction, production, choreography, performance: Antione Effroy Concept, artistic direction, production, choreography, photography and press: Swanhild Kruckelmann Concept, artistic direction, production, choreography, mediation: Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto Sound Installation, Music and dramaturgic mentoring: Tobias Gronau Musik, performance: Konstantin Bessonov Choreography, performance, music: Phillip van der Hejden, Lisa Rykena Choreography, performance: Asli Karali Burlesque-Performance, dance: Francesca Lötscher / Koko La Douce Dance, performance: Tobias Schaller, Larissa Keat, Stephen Hess, Ana Goncalves, Malin Uschkureit, Marit Persiel, Markus Feustel, Martin Freiling. Light design and technics: Bernd Welte Ton Technics: Florian Wienbreier Photography and documentation: Steffen Gottschling Dear audience! We are nearly there. And we won't come closer. We always stay in the approximation, in the space which exists between here and there, which stertches and densifies. It will get much too close, it will be too far away. Sometimes it will touch you, sometimes not. Everything is happening in parallel. And you will have to find your orientation. We will never agree and you to yourself probably neither. Since it will stay in the space inbetween, in the close-far-away space. Bassedanse Project in co-production with the Mojo Club Hamburg. Funded by: Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., Bezirksamt Hamburg-Mitte, Instituto de Cultura y Patrimonio de Antioquia, Institut Francais Hamburg. With the support of: K3-Zentrum für Choreografie | Tanzplan Hamburg, Bühnenstudio der Darstellende Künste, Tango Matrix

MAGRITTE IN MEDELLÍN Butoh Happening Parque de los Deseos Medellín, 2015 Trailer Concept & Artistic Direction: Gyohei Zaitsu and Brenda I. Steinecke Choreography: Gyohei Zaitsu Production: Brenda I. Steinecke Soto and Mercedes Pedroche Gyohei Zaitsu Performance: Adriana Ospina, Alejandra Montes Escobar, Alejandro Ladino, Ana Cristina Roldán, Andrea del Valle Ledezma, Andrea Patricia Ortiz Mejía, Astrid Aristizabal García, Blanca Rincón, Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto, Carmen Restrepo, Catalina Durán, Danielle Sepúlveda Niebles, David Casas Jiménez, Diego Alexander Gómez, Gabriel Ortíz, Germán Arango Rendón, Isabel López, Jackeline Builes, James Santiago Rodríguez Gómez, Janeth Catalina Cadavid, Jhon Barreto, Johans Moreno, John Gonzales Salazar, Jonathan Escobar Ruiz, Jorge Andrés Quirós, Juan Diego Zuluaga Gallego, Juan Felipe Aramburo, Kelly Medina Ruiz, Laura Meneses Pineda, Libertad Aguilar, Lina Marcela Álvarez, Mari Luz Monsalve, Mercedes Pedroche, Saba / Maria Cristina Vanegas Cheverra, Sacha Gimenez, Sven Kah, Tania Granda, Vanessa Camargo, Vesna Jokic, Yirley Arbelaez, Zara Niebles Ruiz Sound Space: Gabriel Ortiz / Solle ElCuerpo (Percussion, Electronics), The Black Door (Jeison Atehortúa, Adrián Ruiz, Pablo Ruiz, Lukas Velasquéz), Daniel Aguilar (Chello), Diego Alexander Gómez / Pasolini en Medellín (Voice), Janeth Catalina Cadavid (Voice) Logistics: Juan Camilo Metaute, Sacha Gimenez, Jhon Barreto, Johans Moreno / Tecnical Team Casa de la Música Photo: Gabriel Ortiz (Solle ElCuerpo), Maria Isabel Medina, Victor Hugo Zapata (Corporación RyuHiKai), Sara Meneses Arango Video: Germán Arango Rendón (Luckas Perro / Corporación Pasolini en Medellín), Duván Londoño (Corporación Pasolini en Medellín), Oscar Molina, Jan Marceau, Andrea Fernandez, Mercedes Pedroche Graphic Design: Mercedes Pedroche Funded by: Espacio Arte Foundation Supported by: Casa de la Música (Fundación EMP). Especial agradecimiento a Carolina Jaramillo, Janneth Calderón, Andrés Felipe Pérez y Laura Tamayo, Gabriel Ortiz / Solle ElCuerpo, Corporación Artística Teatro Inédito

ALL1 FORUM: NO SECRET GARDEN Staging Procedures in Contemporary Arts Arts Festival Gruenspan, Hamburg 2010 Funded by: All1 Forum, Bezirksamt Hamburg-Mitte, ERGO Supported by: Gruenspan Hamburg, Music is Okey, Reinar Wlle – Baumschule, La Douce Cateing, Sprechwerk Theater

The collective ALL1 FORUM was founded by Ursina Tossi, Brenda I. Steinecke Soto and Johannes Miethke 2009 as a mean to encourage interdisciplinary artistic work in Hamburg, connecting local and international arstists and offering a space to discusse, work and reflect together. NO SECRET GARDEN was the event in wich we gathered with the idea to open our working methods to the public by proposing a 3-days event in which the participants were asked to thing on ways to stage their own artistic processes.

MISSING LINK Dance Piece Sprechwerk Theater Hamburg, 2010 Concept: Ursina Tossi and Brenda I. Steinecke Choreography and Dance: Ursina Tossi Dramaturgy and Production: Breenda I. Steinecke Soto Music: Johannes Miethke Dance: Naoko Hadernack, Aedin Walsh Visuals: Gonzalo Barahona Light Design: Sönke Herm Scenography: Gesine Lenz Photo: Steffen Gottschling When we are absorved by a game, focused on the solution of a puzzle, in love or chocked by an accident, we enter zones in which time seems to stop, to crumble or to slow down. The experiences of subjective timezones and the realty of objective messurement of time build the field in which MISSING LINK happens. Time is ungraspable, but it touches everyone. The magic of the moment is reflected in the dance as well as in the reconstruction of remembered and forgotten situations. Funded by: Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Bezirksamt Hamburg Mitte With the support: k3 Choreografisches Zentrum | Tanzplan Deuutschland, Tango Matrix, Sprechwerk Theater