renae shadler
renae shadler

TRAILER

DATES
See CALENDAR for upcoming Labs
Series 6# 2022: September-November // LOCALITY
Series 5# 2022: May-July // QUEERING
Series 4# 2022: February-April // EMERGENCE
Series 3# 2021: April-June // INTERRELATION
Series 2# 2021: January-March // ECOLOGY
Series 1# 2020: October-December // LOWERING THE THRESHOLD

FESTIVALS
26-27 November 2022: TIDAL SHIFTS, Perform[d]ance, Stralsund (DE)
23-24 April 2022: FOREGROUNDING THE BACKGROUND, Sense Festival, Radialsystem, Berlin (DE)

TEAM
Concept, Curation, Facilitation: Renae Shadler
Creative Companion: Susanne Schmitt
Collages, Festival Companion: Judith Förster
Communications: Flupsi Upsi
Documentation: Stella Horta
Production: Sofia Fantuzzi
2021 Communications: Katie-rose Spence
2020/21 Production: ehrliche arbeit – freelance office for culture.

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, Aid Program Dance. 2020/21 activities with additional support from Marten Bequest Theater Fellowship (Perpetual Trust, Australia).

Moving across Thresholds (MaT) is an event series that explores how the perceived limits or edges within experience - whether physical, structural or otherwise - can be approached as thresholds of potential that invite us to think and move in different ways. At MaT humans and nonhumans research thresholds as generative places of encounter where entities such as people, gasses and entire ecosystems can interact.

Conceived as an experimental space, participants explore with full physical commitment what is foregrounded and what is pushed into the background. This is not accidental, but the result of historical processes, dominant pedagogical practices as well as systematic relations of power and oppression. Curated by dance artist Renae Shadler, MaT events combine movement, philosophy and activism, bringing together artists and researchers from neurodiverse and international backgrounds (Europe, Africa and the Global South). Together we ask:

What happens when the background comes to life and makes its presence felt?

What if the landscape becomes a part of us, just as we are a part of it?

What are the invisible thresholds of power?

What if we center the periphery?

Since 2020 the MaT series has been hosting regular hybrid events at bUM in Kreuzberg, Berlin and online within an interactive Gathertown world where each participant can move freely with their avatar in a textured landscape, interact with those close to them through video and voice chat as well as participate in the creation of online/offline documents.

Bespoke festival events include: a two-day event in April 2022 as part of the SENSE series at Radialsystem in Berlin (DE) focusing on geographies of perception, and in November 2022 entitled Tidal Shifts at Perform[d]ance in the regional city of Stralsund (DE).

MaT aims to provide a democratic and safe space where all material generated is open-source. Whether participants join for one or more events, whatever they discover, they are encouraged to take it and explore it further. All events are free and attempt to be suitable for all bodies. 

The interactive MaT archive includes: open documents, full-length videos of past events, a library of worded-companions and commissioned essays by past facilitators.

To stay up to date, send an email with 'Subscribe' to movingacrossthresholds@gmail.com

Find out more at https://movingacrossthresholds.com/

ONLINE LIBRARY

COLLECTIVE DOCUMENTS

Our reference texts and commissioned essays are available for everyone to read, download and/or add. It's easy and simple to use. Please add texts with 'First name, Last name_Title'.

You can add/read texts HERE

Our collective documents are available in Google Drive and growing with a temporality and life of their own. You can access them anytime and are welcome to add, edit or create new ones.

Access the documents HERE

renae shadler
renae shadler
renae shadler
renae shadler

SELECTED VIDEOS OF PAST EVENTS

Video Channel: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8223414/

TRAILER

DATES
See CALENDAR for upcoming Labs
Series 6# 2022: September-November // LOCALITY
Series 5# 2022: May-July // QUEERING
Series 4# 2022: February-April // EMERGENCE
Series 3# 2021: April-June // INTERRELATION
Series 2# 2021: January-March // ECOLOGY
Series 1# 2020: October-December // LOWERING THE THRESHOLD

FESTIVALS
26-27 November 2022: TIDAL SHIFTS, Perform[d]ance, Stralsund (DE)
23-24 April 2022: FOREGROUNDING THE BACKGROUND, Sense Festival, Radialsystem, Berlin (DE)

TEAM
Concept, Curation, Facilitation: Renae Shadler
Creative Companion: Susanne Schmitt
Collages, Festival Companion: Judith Förster
Communications: Flupsi Upsi
Documentation: Stella Horta
Production: Sofia Fantuzzi
2021 Communications: Katie-rose Spence
2020/21 Production: ehrliche arbeit – freelance office for culture.

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, Aid Program Dance. 2020/21 activities with additional support from Marten Bequest Theater Fellowship (Perpetual Trust, Australia).

Moving across Thresholds (MaT) is an event series that explores how the perceived limits or edges within experience - whether physical, structural or otherwise - can be approached as thresholds of potential that invite us to think and move in different ways. At MaT humans and nonhumans research thresholds as generative places of encounter where entities such as people, gasses and entire ecosystems can interact.

Conceived as an experimental space, participants explore with full physical commitment what is foregrounded and what is pushed into the background. This is not accidental, but the result of historical processes, dominant pedagogical practices as well as systematic relations of power and oppression. Curated by dance artist Renae Shadler, MaT events combine movement, philosophy and activism, bringing together artists and researchers from neurodiverse and international backgrounds (Europe, Africa and the Global South). Together we ask:

What happens when the background comes to life and makes its presence felt?

What if the landscape becomes a part of us, just as we are a part of it?

What are the invisible thresholds of power?

What if we center the periphery?

Since 2020 the MaT series has been hosting regular hybrid events at bUM in Kreuzberg, Berlin and online within an interactive Gathertown world where each participant can move freely with their avatar in a textured landscape, interact with those close to them through video and voice chat as well as participate in the creation of online/offline documents.

Bespoke festival events include: a two-day event in April 2022 as part of the SENSE series at Radialsystem in Berlin (DE) focusing on geographies of perception, and in November 2022 entitled Tidal Shifts at Perform[d]ance in the regional city of Stralsund (DE).

MaT aims to provide a democratic and safe space where all material generated is open-source. Whether participants join for one or more events, whatever they discover, they are encouraged to take it and explore it further. All events are free and attempt to be suitable for all bodies. 

The interactive MaT archive includes: open documents, full-length videos of past events, a library of worded-companions and commissioned essays by past facilitators.

To stay up to date, send an email with 'Subscribe' to movingacrossthresholds@gmail.com

Find out more at https://movingacrossthresholds.com/

ONLINE LIBRARY

Our reference texts and commissioned essays are available for everyone to read, download and/or add. It's easy and simple to use. Please add texts with 'First name, Last name_Title'.

You can add/read texts HERE

COLLECTIVE DOCUMENTS

Our collective documents are available in Google Drive and growing with a temporality and life of their own. You can access them anytime and are welcome to add, edit or create new ones.

Access the documents HERE

renae shadler
renae shadler
renae shadler
renae shadler

SELECTED VIDEOS OF PAST EVENTS

Video Channel: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8223414/