Bruno Brandolino | Meghna Bhardwaj | Sina Saberi | Yolanda Morales

THREADS: OPEN STUDIO

The new choreographers in residence at K3 bring new energy to the K3 studios and the Hamburg dance scene. While they are researching, dancing and choreographing, the studio doors will be opened for a moment to allow insights and to try things out together. While Meghna Bhardwaj combines the gestures of weaving with dance, Bruno Brandolino will explore his personal archive of melodramatic material. Yolanda Morales researches dying landscapes and ecosystems, while Sina Saberi explores traditional and contemporary forms of movement in Iran.

Participation is free of charge, tickets must be booked in advance

Bruno Brandolino

is a Uruguayan choreographer and performer based in Lisbon. He develops choreographic work individually and in collaboration with artist Bibi Dória (BR/PT), between Latinamerica and Europe. His artistic work delves into questions of choreography, fiction and dramaturgy, through vocal and physical experimentation. He has collaborated as a performer for several artists in Portugal and Uruguay. In Montevideo, Uruguay, he graduated from the acting program at EMAD | Dramatic Arts School, completed inDANS dance program, and was granted a scholarship by the Ministry of Education and Culture to study at Forum Dança's Advanced Program in Performing Arts.
Bruno’s project for K3, Melodrama, proposes the creation of a choreographic fiction that moves between the limits of a small concert, a drag performance, and a dance piece. Drawing on a personal archive of campy and melodramatic materials, only performed in his own intimacy, he will work on the notion of identity and its relation to his experience of immigration.

^{(Status: 2023)}

Meghna Bhardwaj

(Delhi) has developed her dance practice over several residencies- The Esplanade Residency & Dance Nucleus, Singapore; FACETS Attakkalari, Bangalore; Dance Journey Program, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Israel; ADF China; Marameo Berlin; Taipedia Dance Festival, Taipei. She has been a repertory dancer at The Danceworx, New Delhi, and has danced in projects by Mandeep Raikhy, and Ahn-Ae-Soon. Her works have been shown at 4BID gallery, Amsterdam; Attakkalari Biennial Bangalore; March Dance Chennai; DRT 2018 Taipei; Dance Bridges Kolkata. She holds a PhD. from School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has presented her writings in dance studies at various international conferences and journal publications.
At K3, Meghna will develop her ongoing research titled Yarning that links gestures of weaving with dance. She will trace connections between rhythmic and textural qualities of a yarn and moving bodies. The key inquiry is to find ways to weave a space of collective remembrance while simultaneously exploring how to generate occasions of gathering/communitarian intimacy and play.

^{(Status: 2023)}

www.meghnabhardwaj.com

Sina Saberi

is an Iranian performer, choreographer and cultural manager. He studied Literature in Tehran and then began working in the Performing Arts. He is the Artistic Director of Kahkeshan Dance, an initiative that promotes the Iranian dance scene. His previous works have been shown at Fajr International Festival in Tehran, Rencontres Chorégraphiques in Paris, Hellerau in Dresden and BIPOD in Beirut, among others. He has also been in residence at or was supported by Maqamat Dance in Beirut, DanceWeb in Vienna, Dancing on The Edge in Amsterdam, Tanzfabrik Berlin and BIT Teatergarasjen in Bergen.
At K3, Sina will engage in an exploration of traditional as well as contemporary forms of movement within the context of performing arts in Iran. Various unfulfilled states of being and the desire to fulfil them through embodiment serve as a starting point to develop a personal choreographic narrative that considers dance as an alternate state of being.

^{(Status: 2023)}

Yolanda Morales

(Hamburg), born in Chiapas Mexico, is a choreographer, dancer and performer. She trained in dance in Mexico and completed a Master's degree in Performance Studies in Hamburg. Her projects in Hamburg have been developed with K3, Lichthof Theater and MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum, among others. In her choreographic works she deals with imaginative bodies in utopian and dystopian spaces that are interwoven with current political and social realities. Her productions have been invited to HundertPro Festival at Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, OUTNOW! Bremen, EPICENTRO in Oaxaca (Mexico), IAPAR Festival in India and Hauptsache Frei in Hamburg.
Inspired by the worldview of the Amerindian peoples in relation to nature Yolanda will research how to remember still existing landscapes that are in danger of extinction. She will explore and celebrate a North German moorland landscape, an ecosystem threatened by destruction. There she remembers herself as a being with multiple subjectivities, able to relate with other elements on nature.

^{(Status: 2023)}

www.yolandamorales.net