The Body That Moves
Performance & Lecture Program

Platform 82 | Goethestraße 82, 10623 Berlin

27.04.2024, 19.30h
performance
Andrège Bidiamambu
In the mood for harmony

Platform 82 presents a performance program exploring (body) politics, colonialism, love, and destruction, where sensory experiences intertwine with political statements. The performance space requires presence: eye contact, movement, an encounter between artist and audience. For performance artists in the 1970’s, the personal was political. Invited to The Body That Moves are artists and lecturers who consider our current interactions and power relationships. How do they influence our sensual experiences? The contributions, while different in approach and form, concern the battle between exaltation of individual autonomy and acknowledgment of human dependency. 

The Body That Moves features performances, lectures and lecture performances by Heba Y. Amin, Ekin Bernay, Andrège Bidiamambu, Rose Lejeune, Judith Raum, Margarita Tsomou, Erinç Seymen and Lauryn Youden. 

Andrège Bidiamambu is a Congolese-French performer based in France. He started dancing in 2008, attracted by funk style dances and mainly by locking. Through the years, he has developed, finessed and mastered a distinctive motion, fed by diverse styles like Contemporary Dance, Capoeira, Congolese traditional dances and Tai Chi. Andrège is internationally recognized in his main style of Locking and he has participated in numerous international competitions in China, Japan, France and Amsterdam. Additionally, he is teaching and judging in dance competitions. In the mood for harmony is Andrège Bidiamambu’s first solo piece accompanied with a soundscape by Mackenzy Bergile. It is the first essay of a decade-long research on movement, an introspective journey, a quest of the self following the ability to unfold the intricate dimension of being.

Thanks to Thomias Radin & Savvy Contemporary

Program by: Marjolein van der Meer & Nazlı Yayla

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