GLADE by WILD ACCESS
Performed at Dock 11, Berlin, as part of Soundance festival 2024
Taking inspiration from a forest glade - a clearing - GLADE brings the outside in. The multi-disciplinary piece transforms the stage into an immersive territory in which live lights, sound and drums emulate a natural habitat. A clan of three performers animate this landscape with their bodies, seeking shelter, composing storms and shapeshifting between human and non-human. Do we see ourselves in them? Or in their shadows?
GLADE is a study on our perception of nature through tension and minimalism. The work draws attention to the sensorial and what we cannot know, evoking the weird and the eerie.
BIO
WILD ACCESS is an immersive performance company led by Berlin-based choreographer Beatrix Joyce. The company has since 2021 created site-specific performances for public spaces, streets, gardens, urban greenways and in memorial sites such as Berlin’s former bear pit. In bridging the gap between site and performance, the company re-interprets and re-imagines the environment through mobile, immersive performance formats. GLADE is the first stage piece by WILD ACCESS.
As a writer, Beatrix Joyce joined Springback Academy in 2019. She graduated from Laban, London in 2014.
CREDITS
Artistic direction & choreography: Beatrix Joyce
Dance & co-creation: Michela Filzi, Susanna Ylikoski, Savina Casarin, Imola Nagy
Sound: Jethro Cooke
Drums: Jake Long
Lights: Lena Gätjens
Video: Vincent Jondeau
Voice coach: Rupert Enticknap
Copyright: Beatrix Joyce 2024