House Room: My Remedy

For the second edition of  SENSITIVITIES OF DANCE we welcome chorerographer Stephane "Peeps" for his lecture "House Room: My Remedy" which will be followed by a demo and jam cypher with Moyah 'Leven. 

HOUSEROOM is a educational program about house dance and the history of its origin within a musical and cultural context. House dance has its roots in the underground club scene of New York in the late 1980s. The mostly improvised moves stem directly from the bass, rhythms and riffs of House music and concentrate on foot steps (Footwork), fluid groovy movements of the torso (Jacking) and floor work (Lofting). Taking influences from different dance styles like Jazz, salsa,tap-dance, afro and more, this movement research will make you visit and understand the origins of this social dance and go deeper in his roots. We will fly over different dance and music areas to understand more how this dance is born. Acceptance, freedom, spiritual and the joyfulness being fundamentals of this dance Houseroom is a moment to share, be together and closer of our culture.

Stephane ‘Peeps’is Berlin-based dance choreographer and movement director as well as the founder and creative director of FAAM Studio. He grew up with African movements and learned the art of Hip Hop in Paris in the early 2000s. Inspired by this art of movement, he learned and developed his classical basics in jazz, modern and tap dance in New York starting in 2004. He won numerous international dance competitions such as WDC in Japan, Juste Debout in Italy, New Skool in Korea, Circle Underground in Paris and many more. He has been judging solo & dance choreography competitions worldwide. Since 2010 he teaches dance workshops and trains individuals in choreography, rhythm, body awareness techniques in Paris, Berlin, Italy or Korea.

He also collaborates with the famous Flying Steps from Berlin since 2011. He has been a performer with Ian Kaler in "Incipient Futures" 2016/17, "oT | (Incipient Futures)", as well as the coach and movement director at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. He set up a dance lab workshop on different forms of movement in Brazil for the XII. Biennale Internacional de Dança do Ceará in Fortaleza, 2019 and he is a professor at UDK/HZT.  

Peeps’ mastery of dance combined with his love of fashion pushed him into new domains as he took on projects in fashion and costume design like “On the Cusp” at the Cullbergballetten from Stockholm as well as “LVFE” and “Incipient Futures” by renowned choreographic director Ian Kaler from Vienna. He was the creative director of the fashion brand Belans Berlin from 2014 to 2016 and designer for the label A.Fatti, before founding FAAM STUDIO (Fashion Art And Movement). 

Nate Wendellplays records with the same unbridled passion and energy since '98. His connection with gritty, bass heavy sounds has been visceral, they demand you dance. That means that the clubs he plays are always filled with energy and wholly locked into his groove. His up-tempo sounds draw on real emotions and feelings that always keep heads as busy as heels. From the deeper end of House to more physical Techno offerings, he reaches for music that mirrors his own emotions and that never fails to hit the mark. He translates these experiences of seeing how and why music moves people – as well as the lessons picked up on his worldly travels, to inform the music he makes. It is hardware-based machines that allow real and raw, hands on approach where Nat teases out subtle new sounds, refreshing textures and compelling grooves.To date his music has been released on essential labels like Courtesy of Balance, Depthof My Soul & King Street Sounds, with much more on the way. Informed by his carefully curated Jazz and Soul collection, profound love for the genres Jungle, House, Garage & Broken Beat, Nat Wendell aims to lower inhibitions, connect people through music and simply express the true love he has for this culture

Sensitivities of Dance highlights different contemporary approaches to encoding or decoding the art of dance, movement and sound by opening up conversations about the complex construction of interdisciplinary, cultural, movement identities. It looks at how capturing different layers of hybrid identities through the dancing body and associative sounds can lead to a counter-discourse on sociological, political, philosophical and physiological differences. Each month 2-3 invited dancers and one sound artist from different disciplines en/ decode their individual movement art practises together. Moderated by Jumoke Adeyanju and Thomias Radin, profound questions are answered in the form of verbal language, movement language and/ or music.