Étape Danse is a trilateral European residency programme that supports three selected new dance productions from France, Germany and Italy each year. In an open studio the fabrik Potsdam presents this year excerpts and works-in-progress byDalila Belaza, Stefania Tansini und Yotam Peled & Nitzan Moshe. A bus shuttle between Berlin and Potsdam is available (with registration - see price information).
UN PEU POUR MON COEUR...
Dalila Belaza (Paris)
Dalila Belaza has long been interested in looking at Algeria and its song and dance heritage. Convinced that dance can be listened to in the same way as music, she is interested in exploring the ‘chorality’ of body and voice. In Un peu pour mon coeur... her aim is to create an experience based on the need to draw on a common frequency between body, voice and sound.
Dalila Belaza is a choreographer, dancer, and storyteller whose work emerges from deep body memories and inner landscapes. After 20 years as a performer and artistic partner in her sister Nacera Belaza’s company, she founded hiya compagnie to pursue her own path. Her dance, a mystery in motion, seeks to give form to the invisible and create a reinvented human story.
MADELEINE
Stefania Tansini (Turin)
Madeleine is a choreographic project exploring the relationship between places and the human figure. By following a body that moves through everyday landscapes and spaces, it develops a sensitivity to what surrounds and welcomes the body, creating connections between seemingly separate boundaries.
Stefania Tansini is one of the most appreciated dancers and choreographers of Italian contemporary dance in recent years. Winner of several prizes including the Ubu 2022 Award as Best Performer Under 35, she deeply investigates in her productions the concept of the body and its ability to transform itself through the concreteness of matter and the use of voice.
ONE STRIKE SALVATION
Yotam Peled & Nitzan Moshe (Berlin)
One Strike Salvation is a contemporary memorial ceremony blending dance, text and song. Performed by two migrant artists, it explores the tension between belonging and displacement, nostalgia and identity. Through the use of objects charged with collective memory, it deconstructs tradition, heroism, and the body’s role in grief and celebration.
Yotam Peled, born in 1989, is a choreographer and performer with a background in visual arts, athletics, and capoeira. He began dancing at 21 and later studied contemporary circus. Since 2015, he has been based in Berlin, working internationally as a freelance artist and leading the ensemble Yotam Peled & the Free Radicals. Nitzan Moshe, born in 1994, began her dance training at a young age, and accomplished a one-year internship in Bat-Sheva Ensemble. She worked in Vertigo Dance company, and as a freelancer with makers such as Roy Assaf, Sita Ostheimer, and company Idem. In 2019 she relocated to Berlin and began her collaboration with Yotam Peled, first as a dancer and recently as a co-choreographer.
