EXTANZ VOL. 1.5

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Extanz Vol 1.5 is a brutalist representation of a dancer's relationship to her craft: passionate, visceral, metallic, repetitive, enduring.

With intense repetitive choreography, storytelling, and heavy metal we aim to represent the dancer's resilience.

A brutalist set design by Braden White, text and concept by Katrina E. Bastian, and dynamic choreography expertly executed by Olivia McGregor make for a visceral dive into what it's really like to be a dancer...and ultimately, in the face of pain, what keeps us coming back, day after painstaking day. A descent into the limits of the body and the politics of power.

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THE ARTISTS

  • Katrina E. Bastian

    CONCEPT/ CHOREOGRAPHY

    Katrina is an endurance-based dance artist based in Berlin, DE. Their choreography values the body as a vehicle for authentic expression. Seamlessly navigating between improvisation and set choreographic material she emphasizes the ‘body under pressure’ as resilient and a source of ultimate knowing.

    Katrina makes dance about dance- unpacking the power dynamics in the industry. Their work interrogates binaries in an attempt to ‘muddy the waters’ and trigger an associative athleticism towards a queerer world.

    IG: @kbast.tanz
    WEBSITE

    ADDITIONAL CREDITS

    PRODUCTION: Nahyeon Lee
    SET DESIGN + CONSULTATION: Braden White
    HERO IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY: Petra Migneau

    Big aroha to Ella Rerekura, Paul Bennett, and Dan Goodwin on supporting Extanz’s 2022 development.

  • Olivia McGregor

    PERFORMER/ CHOREOGRAPHY IN COLLABORATION

    Olivia McGregor is a dance artist from New Zealand. After graduating from the New Zealand School of dance in 2010, Olivia joined Footnote Dance Company (2011-2014) performing in works by choreographers Lisa Densem, Kate McIntosh, Jo Randerson, Ross McCormack and BodyCartography Project among others. Since moving to Berlin in 2016, she has been working around Europe in film, performance art installations and dance works with artists including Jeremy Shaw, Julian Weber and Constanza Macras (Dorky Park). Her practice often works with improvisation based on somatic movement material combining embodiment of sound, space and body.

    IG: @livmcgreg