Mirjam Sögner: ROOOMS Event Series

ROOOMS

an event series for performative spaces

ROOOMS is a four-part series of events in various Berlin venues and formats, generating spheres of experience beyond the traditional, performer-oriented theatre context. Initiator Mirjam Sögner collaborates with a different choreographer on each edition.

ROOOM #1
created by Emmilou Rößling & Mirjam Sögner

2.4 // 17-21.00 at Vierte Welt Berlin

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In ROOOM #1, we devoted ourselves to fleeting and fragile atmospheres by zooming in on nothing less concrete than all forms of minerals - creating a space that seeks to gently make the elusive tangible, and the dense matter malleable.
We ask how something intangible like an atmosphere can take root in a body and vice versa how atmospheres can be grasped or even changed.
The visitors are guided through a parkour in which they encounter various materials, traces of previous participants and texts in order to react and continue to weave the space and its composition.

ROOOM #2

created by Fernando Belfiore & Mirjam Sögner
7.5 // 17.30 at Heizhaus, Uferstudios Berlin
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ROOOM #2 was dedicated to transformative encounters with one another.
Questions to fall in love, techniques on how to tap into energies in the room and consciously working with them, remotely controlled cars chasing each other though the space and many more playful instructions will create bubbles of intimacy with oneself, others and devices. ROOOM #2 is a space to meet in unordinary ways, to create closeness with what and who feels strange or unfamiliar.

ROOOM #3

created by Angela Schubot & Mirjam Sögner
in collaboration with Tanzfabrik Berlin
16.9 // 18.00 at Uferstudios Wedding / Studio 5

ROOOM #3 is an audio-installation co-created by Angela Schubot and Mirjam Sögner, which blends and brings to life the narratives of existing and fictional landscapes.

Recorded voices lead the listeners through different climate zones and to remote corners of the earth, to experience vast stretches of land and delicate specimens of plant life. Listeners are invited to dig down into the earth and grow up towards the light. Their attention travels, each following their own individual responses to these real and imagined sensual experiences – meandering, touching and being touched – between far-flung outer spaces and a constantly changing personal inner world within the body.

ROOOM #4

created by Marta Navaridas & Mirjam Sögner
SAT 5.11.2022 // 16.00

Gallery Ship // Hosek Contemporary
MS HEIMATLAND close to Fischerinsel 3 // 10179 Berlin

ROOOM #4 is a choreographic journey co-created by Marta Navaridas and Mirjam Sögner taking place in the belly of a historical boat located on the waters of River Spree right in the heart of Berlin.

The floating vessel is our point of reference when we are out on the shape-shifting waters, detached from the specificity of location.
A tin box that allows us to travel over unspeakable depths, to inhabit the IN-BETWEEN and provides just enough safety to travel the unknown.

In ROOOM #4 we will enter the ship to lose our sense of orientation and to discover a different set of coordinates.
A fire for example - that will be the center of our gathering on a cold November evening.  How could we become each others travel companions navigating the always-transitory and the powers of our own unconscious watery depths.
Or let’s become a ship of fools all together. Unpredictable. Anchoring in the darkness of the margins into strange songs, drawings and letters.

TEAM
Artistic Direction & Concept: Mirjam Sögner
Production: Diethild Meier

Sound: Samuel Hertz

Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ - STEPPING OUT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz.