Choreography

EPHEMEROPTERA

2023
Choreography, Concept, Performance

Giuliana Corsi & Melissa Figueiredo
Music
Carla Boregas

Funded and Facilitated by Tanz im August, performed under the frame of Interconnecting Dance & Ecology, at Park am Lichtenberg. Berlin, August 2023.

The Mayfly is an insect with a larval stage that lasts months to years. The only visible stage for humans is the last one, as an insect, and it lasts 24 hours. The duet “Ephemeroptera” reflects on ephemerality, connecting the cycle of the Mayflies with human relations with existence, leaving trace, the past, present, and future.

Under the veil of existence
I live the invisible
time
to catch light is to touch
what you don’t see
life is immense and ephemeral
Just let me burn
High world's away
for I live
what you don’t say

ZUSTAND/
ENTROPY

2022
Choreography, Concept, Performance

Giuliana Corsi
Music
Giuliana Corsi, Mixing by Pedro Oliveira
Filming & Editing
Elissa de Brito
Programming
Bruno Gola
Facilitated & Funded by
Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Dis-tanz SOLO, Neustart Kultur. Thanks to PSR Kollektiv, Cordillera Berlin, Tanzfabrik & Uferstudios.

A movement performance that explores an ever-present state of stasis in a long and distorted moment, an impatient complacency as the feeling of an imminent end: a state of doom. Doom is a constant in the perception of existence - the long moment before the end.

TAHANGUENTAR

2024
Choreography, Performance

Adela Maharani, Giuliana Corsi
Direction, Music
Ariel Orah, Pedro Oliveira (Soy Division)
Filming & Editing
Asarela Dewi
Featuring
Marcioz, Bintang Manira Mani
Facilitated & Funded by
Initiative Neue Musik
Performed at
Sinema Transtopia Berlin (2024)

TAHANGUENTAR is a multi-channel sound performance and dramaturgical narrative stemming from research been conducted by Soy Division since 2020 as „Jendela Sonorama“, a communal listening and lecture-performance series in which they host and present listening as a form of collective sharing and learning. In it, they go through records and songs as snippets of personal histories that speak of larger political issues connecting our home countries (Brazil and Indonesia), trying to de-essentialize certain concepts and assumptions and play around with the idea of "national identity" and what it means to be in diaspora together. Tahanguentar focused in how two so-called “national rhythms,” Samba and Jaipong, have become an expression of a fabricated and fractured notion of "national identity" in Brazil and Indonesia respectively. The performance was a sonic choreography of the archive by mixing different traditions – from the building blocks of Jaipong and Samba to gestures of New Music and Postmillennial Collage –, while at the same time fracturing and reassembling them anew. TAHANGUENTAR (a composite of Bahasa Indonesia and Portuguese words for “Endurance”) is a choreographed sonic performance, which blends bits and pieces of theatrical dramaturgy with musical improvisation, electroacoustic composition, and archival work.

DAYDREAM

Daydream is a reflection on how modernity contributes to dehumanizing us. Through devaluing time and human relations, we end up in a psychological sinkhole, where solitude and shallow conversations prevail.

2023
Choreography, Concept, Performance

Giuliana Corsi
Music
Alessandro Cortini, Pedro Oliveira
Facilitated by
KNOTTED, performed in Katapult Berlin in September 2023. Independent work curated by Kristi Cole and Madeline Robertson.

2023
Choreography, Concep
t, Performance

Giuliana Corsi
Music
Alessandro Cortini, Caterina Barbieri & Pedro Oliveira.
Facilitated & Funded by
Chance Tanz, Bad Honnef tanzt and Anna-Lu Masch, Peformed in Bad Honnef, June 2023.

2021
Choreography, Concept

Giuliana Corsi
Performance
Frederikke Schultz, Jacob Borchert, Stephanie Zaharova, Giuliana Corsi
Music
Pedro Oliveira & Giuliana Corsi
Facilitated & Funded by
Shibak Sharqi as part of TOMORROW, a festival performed in Uferstudios Berlin in March 2021.

This is a study on time that conveys a vivid dream's sensation, and brings a contemplative state of a day that repeats itself and never ends.

ENTROPIA

2023
Choreography, Concept, Performance

Giuliana Corsi & Carla Boregas
Music
Carla Boregas
Facilitated by
Lange Nacht des Tanzes Bleiburg, Center for Choreography Bleiburg, Austria.
Curated by
Mirjam Sadjak, Anna Hein, Julian Gamisch

FALHA / dissidência

2021
Choreography, Concept

Giuliana Corsi
Rehearsal Director
Roosa Nirhamo
Performance
Emma Hedemann, Frederikke Schultz,
Pamela Moraga, Saja Noori, Stephanie Zaharova
Music
Nadja, OLVRA
Facilitated by
ShibakSharqi, Christine Schmidt

2020
Choreography, Concept

Giuliana Corsi
Performance
Emma Hedemann, Roosa Nirhamo, Giuliana Corsi
Music
OLVRA
Funded independently

Womxn are expected to act and behave a certain way, and when we don't, this is considered a flaw. This work is about the constant failure that womxn are conditioned to. We are forced impossible patterns and concepts, until we break.

THE CHALICE 
OF EXHAUSTION

2022
Choreography, Performance

Giuliana Corsi
Filming, Editing
Piet Truhlar
Music, Direction
Reveree
Costume
Stephanie Franzius