Frauke requardt biography

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Makiko's Shed

Synopsis:

Makikos Shed is a surreal and mesmerising dance choreographed by Frauke Requardt

Notes:

part of Simple Things in Life, the

1st Produced:

Latitude Festival, Henham PArk, Southwold, Sunrise Coast, Suffolk    15 Jul

Organisations:

Fuel

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Genre:

short piece

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Daniel is dyspraxic and is too slow. Frauke has ADHD and is too quick. They are married and have kids. This performance is rooted in their experiences of their bodies as neurodivergent lovers, parents, and weirdo performance makers.

This sharing is directly followed by a participatory ‘Rong Table’ event, raising questions around family, fidelity, monogamy, and being experimental performance makers onstage. (see website for further details). 

Frauke Requardt is a German-born, London-based choreographer whose work is characterised by physically challenging choreography, theatricality and overall sense of surrealism.

Daniel Oliver is a performance artist creating awkward participatory worlds, they are unashamedly dyspraxic, embracing his lightly off-kilter relationship with co-ordination, social interaction and executive planning.

Connect on social media@canibedaniel #Neurodiversity #Parenting #MessyMessing 

Frauke Requardt and David Rosenberg have won much acclaim in recent years for their rather experimental, outdoors, site specific collaborations, so you will have probably seen &#; or at the very least heard about &#; one of their inventive co-creations: the likes of &#;Electric Hotel&#;, &#;Motor Show&#;, and &#;The Roof&#;.

Their latest work, &#;DeadClub&#;, opens at The Place this month. To find out more about this, and their creative history together, I arranged a quick chat.

CM: Can you start by telling us what to expect from DeadClub? Does it have a narrative? What themes does the show explore?
R&R: It’s an up-close dance theatre experience for a limited audience all taking places around a specially built stage which the audience will stand around. There’s less of a narrative, more of a series of interlinked events. It’s an absurd arena in which we try and fail to remember something that is yet to happen. Our lives are strange and we are strange and it’s probably okay.

We’re working with five incredible and skilled dancers: Jordan Ajadi, Ruben Brown, Neil Callaghan, Owen Ridley-DeMonick and Valentina Formenti. We have worked with Valentina and Neil on a number of previous projects, and Owen, Jordan and Ruben are with us for the first time and it has been a pleasure to be in the studio with them. Our work is made in collaboration with the dancers and the creative contribution that the cast have generously and tirelessly offered in rehearsal has absolutely made the show.

CM: What inspired the show? What made you want to create a show with these themes?
R&R: We began working on this project about five years ago with an upbeat interest in our existential fears of death and meaninglessness. Our imagined audience were lying under a glass floor, buried alive as the world turned above them. Our research led us towards the work of Elizabeth Loftus and the malleability of memory. What if you were told that the red tricycle that you clearly rememb

FRAUKE REQUARDT

Frauke Requardt is a German-born, London-based choreographer. Her choreographic work is characterised by physically challenging choreography, a strong theatricality, dark humour and an overall sense of surrealism. She uses text and live music and a mixture of abstract and emotionally based movement to deliver highly engaging work. Frauke trained in Germany, New York and London. Although her main pursuit is choreography, she has also performed in Lea Anderson’s work as a Cholmondeley for several years.

 Frauke is a Work Place Artist at The Place and is also an associate artist at Greenwich Dance. Frauke has presented her work in the UK and internationally, having enjoyed residencies in Colombia, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland and Germany.

Her full-evening works to date include Jammy Dodgers, a fantastical world, with a rolling line up of bands from the London contemporary Jazz scene; the Lynch-esque Roadkill Cafe; and Pequenas Delicias, an absurdist site-specific piece, Episode premiered at The Place (June ) and most recently Mothers () an anarchic response to her experience of being a new parent.