...is dedicated to expanding the relationship between music/sound, dance/movement improvisation.
...it is amazing to experience how easy and good the abstraction in two fields often fits - for the nature of it, dance and music go together. nothing new, a platitude. seems that instrumental music uses similar abstract forms to communicate as dance does. the moment where there is something more concrete and easier to catch, the recipient associates any action in function and meaning of what the concretest medium describes. grapshade is dedicated to a form of communication which avoids the concreteness. with this it opens spaces to imagination and interpretation in order to work against a populistic way of explanation. simpler: grapeshade wants to explore the field in between black and white, good and bad, rich and poor and millions of other examples of polarization.
...based in Berlin, started exploring the small alternative spaces in the city in 2009, among those are Sowieso, Ausland, Farbfernseher, Das Hotel, Ms Hecker, Exploratorium, Quite Cue, Wendel, Galerie Mazzoli, LaborGras, shared continuously their work with the music and dance followers in informal settings making most of their gatherings public, developed further interest for site specific performances and started touring, performed in a natural cave, billiard hall (read critic: http://www.tanznetz.de/kritiken.phtml?page=showthread&aid=36&tid=21765 ), old water tower, on stage at Radial System V, outdoors at Tempelhof, also at the Elias Canetti Center and the Watertower Festival in Bulgaria in July 2011 with support from the Goethe Institut.
...it is amazing to experience how easy and good the abstraction in two fields often fits - for the nature of it, dance and music go together. nothing new, a platitude. seems that instrumental music uses similar abstract forms to communicate as dance does. the moment where there is something more concrete and easier to catch, the recipient associates any action in function and meaning of what the concretest medium describes. grapshade is dedicated to a form of communication which avoids the concreteness. with this it opens spaces to imagination and interpretation in order to work against a populistic way of explanation. simpler: grapeshade wants to explore the field in between black and white, good and bad, rich and poor and millions of other examples of polarization.
...based in Berlin, started exploring the small alternative spaces in the city in 2009, among those are Sowieso, Ausland, Farbfernseher, Das Hotel, Ms Hecker, Exploratorium, Quite Cue, Wendel, Galerie Mazzoli, LaborGras, shared continuously their work with the music and dance followers in informal settings making most of their gatherings public, developed further interest for site specific performances and started touring, performed in a natural cave, billiard hall (read critic: http://www.tanznetz.de/kritiken.phtml?page=showthread&aid=36&tid=21765 ), old water tower, on stage at Radial System V, outdoors at Tempelhof, also at the Elias Canetti Center and the Watertower Festival in Bulgaria in July 2011 with support from the Goethe Institut.
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