cie. toula limnaios & Giacomo Corvaia: »we are made« & »outro pais« (Meeting on Video-Dance and Video Performance)

we are made –
a dance film by cie. toula limnaios and Giacomo Corvaia

»we are made« is the first ever dance film made by the cie. toula limnaios, in collaboration with Giacomo Corvaia. After four years as a dancer in the ensemble, he was now behind the camera.

Choreographic miniatures from pieces, filmed with dancers of the ensemble, are placed in alternative contexts outside the stage. These worlds are transformed and modified for the film. The camera emphasizes details and like a witness of time passing recounts the stretch of almost an entire year.

The micro-worlds are filmed in places that seem to have fallen out of time – monuments of history or places in constant transition - thus creating alternate contexts. The movements are thus read in new ways, putting them into new perspective in a interweaving of images.

»we are made« is a series of portraits connected to one another, that contradict, harmonize and enter into a dialog with each other …. The images chase one another. The figures explore landscapes that are both distinct and obscure at the same time, like in a daydream –
apparitions from dreams, memories rooted in daily life, filled with beauty and poetry.

Idea/ Choreography: Toula Limnaios
Film/Camera/Editing: Giacomo Corvaia
Music: Ralf R. Ollertz, Paul Tinsley
Dance/ Creation:
Daniel Afonso, Leonardo D´Aquino, Daeho Lee,
Katja Scholz, Hironori Sugata, Karolina Wyrwal, Inhee Yu
Costumes: Antonia Limnaios/ Toula Limnaios

A cie. toula limnaios production in co-production with the HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN supported by the Cultural Department of the
City of Berlin.

outro país –
a dance documentary by Giacomo Corvaia and the cie. toula
limnaios

“outro paìs” is a dance documentary commissioned by the cie. toula limnaios, shot and directed by Giacomo Corvaia. In 2014, on invitation from the Goethe-Institute, the cie. toula limnaios travelled 6 weeks throughout Brazil as a German Dance Ambassador. The film portraits an encounter of two cultures, pictured through the scenes from the performances, workshops, voyages, meetings and beautiful landscapes.

Direction/Editing: Giacomo Corvaia
Camera: Giacomo Corvaia, Louis Felipe Tortoro, Joanna Rizeiro
With: Toula Limnaios, Ralf Ollertz, Samuel Minguillon,
Victoria P. Miranda, Antonia Limnaios, Hironori Sugata,
Julia Göller, Karolina Wyrwal, Marika Gangemi,
Giacomo Corvaia, Inhee Yu

A cie. toula limnaios production, supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Berlin. A cie. Toula Limnaios production supported by the cultural department of Berlin. The cie.toula limnaios in Brazil, on invitation of the Goethe-Institut.