Renae Shadler & Collaborators

SKIN

Germany The Twenty21

Each of us has our own identity in relation to the skin. The texture of the skin changes and is constantly transformed through contact with others. This applies to everyone, from people of different abilities, different ages and even to the surface of the earth, which is shifting ever faster in the current age of the Anthropocene.

Performed by Roland Walter, a dancer with full-body paralysis, and Renae Shadler, an able-bodied dancer/choreographer, SKIN creates a universe of its own in which their two different bodies come close to each other. This intimate duet transcends the two performers’ physical borders to imagine a shared movement language inspired by sea anemones, liquids and earth’s surfaces.

SKIN explores new ways of relating to each other, deepening our ability to glide back and forth between different types of experience and embodies how our environment both shapes us and is shaped by us.

Biography

Renae Shadler is a choreographer, performer and researcher based in Berlin. As founder of RENAE SHADLER & COLLABORATORS, a project-based collective creating multidisciplinary performances with touring artists and non-professional participants, she has created work for theatres, train stations and city squares. Since 2015 she has been developing her ‘world-ing’ choreographic practice which is anchored in post humanist discourse and explores the reciprocal process of how we are both shaping and being shaped by our environment. Her original works weave together detailed physicality, voice and the larger dramatic gesture with warmth and sensitivity.

Roland Walter was born in Magdeburg (Germany) in 1963. He works as a performer, model, photographer and writer with one special feature: he has full-body paralysis. Walter lives with full-time assistance in Berlin. As a performer he experiments with his body, showing the audience a change of perspective. By expressing his thoughts through art he shares his message with the world: Nothing is impossible. No matter who you are, life is a gift which should be embraced.

Performances

16 July 2021 SKIN at Radialsystem in Berlin Berlin, Germany Find out more