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David Lakein
(USA / Berlin)
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| Photo:
Nada Zgank |
Director, Choreographer, Performer, Teacher, Writer
Studied Philosophy, Literature, and Theater at Wesleyan University,
USA.
Trained in Composition, Release-Technique, Improvisation,Body-Mind-Centering, Contact, and Acting & Directing in Berlin,
San
Francisco, and at the School for New Dance Development in
Amsterdam. Other strong influences include Aikido,
Alexander Technique, Physical Theater, Butoh, Stand-Up, Books &
Bars, Spirits & Streets.
Performs in venues and festivals across Europe and
in the United States.
Artistic Work : covers a broad spectrum of
approaches, forms and
situations. Whether completely set or entirely improvised, a solo
performance or community gathering, on stage or in the back bushes, the
work embraces and confronts the edge between the profoundly serious and
ridiculously silly. It often includes a significant (potential) degree
of interactivity, inviting and illiciting participation from the
viewing-listening-reading audience.
Theater Making : is at its core an interdisciplinary practice,
inhabiting the border areas between theater, dance, cabaret and
performance art. Main aspects include locating and developing a
specific intention and physical attitude, using costume, objects, text,
and video to create narrative context. Lakein believes deeply in the
collaborative process, and works extensively with other artists, a.o.,
the composer Toek Numan (NL), musicians Richard Scott (GB) and Dirk
Bruinsma (NL), performer Eric Zobel (F), and light designers Jeroen
Maasland (NL) and Nils-R. Schultze (D). Current
projects include:
The Breath Series − an
improvisational solo about {abandoning} responsibility, {embracing}
failure, and {muddling} meaning & mystery.
Café Urgency − a salon happening about the
sense of Urgency in people's lives.
Planet Hope − an ongoing research-,
performance-, and documentation-laboratory about the role of hope/Hope
in varied facets of personal and collective living.
Magnificent Stereo − an encounter in sound
& space with musician Richard Scott.
Teaches
across Europe in studios, schools and festivals, including in
University of Music and Performing Arts (Frankfurt), Academy
of
Art Weissensee (Berlin),
University College of Dance (Stockholm), Studio Seven (Amsterdam),
Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Arts en
Scéne (Lyon), L'Association Metanoia (Bordeaux), and the Easter Improvisation Festival (Göttingen),
Ponderosa
TanzLand Festival
(Stolzenhagen), International
Contact Festival (Freiburg), International Festival of
Contemporary Dance (Kalisz, Poland), and Leaving the Route 2: The Role
of
the Audience in Theater (Frankfurt).
Organizes and facilitates festivals, labs and discussions,
including the Ponderosa TanzLand Festival (Berlin), MAD Improvisation
Festival (Amsterdam), and "HereNow&Again" Improvisation
Laboratory
(Berlin).
Artistc Director of paradox
bay - an artistist platform initiated in 2008.
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