Being both experienced improvisers, in this new Duet, Judith and Edivaldo challenge the possibilities of the present moment in which all happen at once. They create two narratives that coexist independent of each other, they find an equilibrium between experimentation, experience, and functionality - and unlock the dance.

Surrounded by flashes in a time of speed, negotiations if attention, and pursuing of power amount us at his highest. With this piece they present a spontaneous statement of instinctive choices made during a dialogue of two presences in freedom.

Performed and created by Judith SÁNCHEZ RUÍZ & Edivaldo ERNESTO
Music by Thomas PROKSCH
Light Design by Eduardo ABDALA

Premiered at Tanz_house Festival, Saal - ARGEkultur, Salzburg (Oct 22, 2016). Festival El Cruce. Rosario, Argentina (Nov 25, 2016). El Porton de sanchez, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Nov 20, 2016).
This piece was produced by JSR Company and Edivaldo Ernesto

photo by Gabriel Reig

EDIVALDO ERNESTO

Improvisation Expert/Teacher/Choreographer. Born in Maputo (Mozambique). Based in Berlin since 2007. For 11 years Edivaldo Ernesto has worked with David Zambrano in Duet improvisations performance, Creations/Teaching and touring across the world.
Performed: 'twelve flies went out at noon', 'Soul Project', 'SHOCK', and 'land in love' (directed by David Zambrano). He was invited to P.A.R.T.S as assistant of D.Zambrano and coaching Passing Through technique in 2008 in Brussels, Belgium.
Former member of Sasha Waltz and Guests company. (2007-2014), Part of Sasha Waltz since 2007 as guest, and in 2008 he became permanent member of ensemble Sasha Waltz & Guests. Performed: Repertory and new Productions works as 'Travelogue - Twenty to eight', 'Jagden und Formen', 'Continu', 'Metamorphoses', 'Passion', 'Gefaltet' and 'Sacre', and also part of the various Dialogue-projects by Sasha Waltz.

Since 2012 he has also developed various collaborative projects with Judith Sánchez Ruíz of spontaneous improvisation performances and choreographic duet 'There is a name for it' (2012-2014) and in research '’till Collapse' (2015). In 2012 Radialsystem organized the first concert between innovative German Pianist Hauschka and Edivaldo Ernesto. Touring Europe and Germany.

He begins to dance in 1997 with the Tsemba dance group, where he learns Mozambican traditional dance for 4 years. In 2001, he was invited to be a member of Ussoforal, a western African traditional dance group. In 2003 he worked with Escultutras Humanas company where he begins contemporary dance. That same year, he is accepted for the 1st stage of a choreographic development project, a six months training program organized by CulturArte (Maputo-Mozambique) and Dancas Na Cidades (Lisbon-Portugal). Through this program he attends several workshops with Boyzie Cekwana and Desire Davids (South Africa), David Zambrano and Mat Voorter (Venezuela-Holland). In 2005, he won a DanceWEB Scholarship for five weeks at Impulstanz, Vienna International Dance Festival, Austria. In 2010 he participated as an assistant of D.Zambrano in the 50 Days program San Jose, Costa Rica. He has taught as assistance of D.Zambrano at ImPulseTanz Dance, Vienna (2011-2014); DansCentrum Jette, Brussels, Belgium; FUZIONI Improvisation Festival, Italy; EX>IN, Ponderosa, Germany. His work has been presented at Bouge B, DeSingel Festival, Antwerp, Belgium; Tanzfestival in Kulturzentrum Tempel, Karlsruhe, Germany; Offestival, Garage 29, Brussels; Belgium; Gdansk Dance Festival, Gdansk, Poland; Radialsystem, Berlin,Germany; Exit festival Paris- France with German Pianist Hauschka.

Since 2011 Edivaldo Ernesto had been immersed in the investigation and development of 'Depth Movement' and 'Next Level' Workshops. He has taught at Biennale de Venice, Italy; SEAD Dance Academy, Salzburg, Austria; Deltebre Dance Festival, Spain; Volkroom, Brussels, Belgium; Tanzfabrik, Berlin, Germany; Marameo, Berlin, Germany; Potsdam Festival, Berlin, Germany; HZT Dance University Berlin, Germany; La Fleche, France; 1st Tanztreffen der Jugend, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany. FlounceUp, Roma, Italy; Guangzhou workshop, China; Ex-In Madrid; FEC, Panama City.

photo by Ariela Gauna

JUDITH SÁNCHEZ RUÍZ

The Berlin–based director, choreographer, teacher, improviser, Judith Sánchez Ruíz (Havana, Cuba), was based in New York since 1999 and relocated to Berlin in 2011. She began her dance studies at the age of 11 at the National School of Arts in Ciudad de la Habana. Cuba. Former member of Sasha Waltz & Guest, Germany (2011-2014), Trisha Brown Dance Company, US, (2006-2009); Mal Pelo Company, Spain (1997-1999), and DanzAbierta Company, Cuba, (1991-1996). Among others independent choreographers as: DD Dorvillier (2002), David Zambrano (1997), Deborah Hay (2012) etc.

For several years, she has been strongly committed to improvisation as a performance form involving live music, developing various collaborative projects with the innovative composers and Visual Artist in US and Europe.

Judith had been commissioned choreography works at Danspace Project St. Marks Church NY; Work & Progress at Guggenheim Museum, NY, Whitney Museum NY, Storm King Art Center, NY. Her work has been shown at Festival Artdanthé, Paris, France; MAC/Museum of Contemporary Art, Festival de Marseille, (France); Athens Festival (Greece), New Museum, NY; The Walker Art Center, MN; La MaMa International Series, NY; Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Miami; P.S. 122, NY; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NY; Joyce Soho, NY; The Kitchen, NY; Nimes Museum of Contemporary Art, France and The Jazz Gallery, NY; Sarajevo Jazz Festival, (Bosnia); TanzFest, Berlin; Institut Valencià D'Art Modern (IVAM) curated by Robert Wilson Valencia, (Spain);; River To River Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY; and Summergarden 2009 (MoMA), NY.

In 2010 she established the JSR Company in New York City, focussing on multidisciplinary and site-specific performances. JSR has been awarded grants by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The American Music Center’s Live Music for Dance program as well as the Baryshnikov Arts Center: Martha Duffy Resident Artist Spring amongst others. Dance Magazine ’s “25 to Watch” in 2010.

Since 2012 she has been doing a choreographic collaboration with Mozambique performer Edivaldo Ernesto. 'There is a name for it' toured 2013-14 presented at: Radialsystem, Berlin. Germany; Tanzfestival in Kulturzentrum Tempel, Karlsruhe, Germany; Offestival, Garage 29, Brussels. Belgium; BOUGUE B, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium; Gdansk Dance Festival, Gdansk, Poland. 'NOISE' her new duet, premiered at Tanz House Festival, Salzburg, and Tour Argentina, with workshops & Performance, 16o Festival Internacional El Cruce 2016, and Porton de Sanchez Bs. Ar, Argentina. Fall 2016.

JSR Company premiered in Europe: 'Micro Revolution'. A Site-Specific dance in collaboration with ACUD MACHT NEU, (Berlin) 2015; 'Sebastian Schunke Meets Judith Sánchez Ruíz' a collaboration with German Pianist Sebastian Schunke, Pavillon Hanover, Hanover, (2016); 'Mirror Equation' An Improvisational Performance. Berlin, (2016); 'Como Las Olas' a repertory piece is in production 2017.

Sánchez created works for different companies and dance institutions and taught workshops and master classes throughout the world, her class 'Functionality and Perspective in Dance' has been invited to teach more recently: Summer Melt:Movement Research, NY; Guanzhou, China and SEAD Salsburg Experimental Academic, Salzburg, as well as the re-staged 'Set and Reset', Trisha Brown, at the Paris Conservatoire, France.

'ENCAJE or LACE' her new solo is a combination of meat, blood and what means to be feminine these days. A dance piece about hypocrisy, targeting how unbalanced of our own belief and actions we are.

THOMAS PROKSCH
Performer, soundformer, DJ
Co-founder of the Doomwop collective 'BOYZ IN THE WOOD$' together with Balz Isler, Gael Cleinow and Justin F. Kennedy (AuAvirleben Festival Bern 2015, Tanztage Berlin 2015, Art Basel 2014). Have worked with Tino Sehgal in the works 'YET UNTITLED, THIS VARIATION, KISS, INSTEAD OF ALLOWING' (eg Documenta 13 Kassel, Venice Berlinale 2013, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin 2015, Staedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2015). In addition, interpreter of a new project of the artist, presented in May 2016 in Marrakech at Jemaa el-Fna square and the building of the al Maghrib Bank. Numerous collaborations with choreographers and directors as dancers and performers, eg. In the Harold Pinter play 'BETRAYAL' directed by Mesut Arslan (Toneelhuis Antwerp) or as a performer for Rita Vilhena in 'EMERGENCY PLAN' (Impulstanz Festival 2015 Vienna).
Thomas Proksch has also been working with sound for many years under the name GODMEDAL. For a group choreography of the dancer Arkadi Zahires in the context of the Tanzbiennale 2013 Venice the sound.

Thomas Proksch has been living in Brussels since the beginning of 2016, curating the alternative studio space VOLKSROOM together with the performers Sophia Rodriguez and Micha Goldberg.

EDUARDO ABDALA
Light Designer
Eduardo Abdala (Mozambique). With the beginning of his studies of Lighting Design he came to Portugal in 2006. In his professional career he accompanied productions by Romeo Castellucci, Constanza Macras, Katie Mitchell, Thomas Ostermeier and others. He worked in different theaters such as Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (DE), Théâtre de l’Odéon (F), Théâtre de la Ville (F), Théâtre National de Bretagne (F), Barbican (UK), or Teatro Maria Matos (PT).

As Lighting Designer he collaborated with the company from Schaubühne in Berlin (DE), with Malavoadora from Lisbon (PT), and with Third Angel from the UK, furthermore he designed for directors like Ana Luena, Nicholas Mockridge, Mina Salehpour, Ingo Hülsmann, Anne Schneider, Vera Mantero, and others. Besides he regularly works as lighting technician in spaces like Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE) and Berliner Festspiele (DE).

More lately he collaborated with Mozambique Choreographer Edivaldo Ernesto with the piece 'Tears' premiere at Grand Atelier E.V.E in France, November, 2015. As well of made the light designer of 'Sebastian Shunke Meets Judith Sánchez Ruíz', premiere Pavillon Hanover, February 2016.
Eduardo Abdala lives and works in Berlin since 2012.