YAS, FASCIA and VEDO / contemporary dance

Cecilia Bartolino / Hannah Stein / Patric De Jesus /

YAS, FASCIA and VEDO is a full evening of three dancers connecting with each other, three different creations blending one into another. We are researching the significance of belonging, identification and adaptation, it is about connection as much as it is about separation. We see and perceive everything around us.

In this solo YAS I’m researching the significance of belonging, identifying, and adapting. I ask myself; can we adapt to the ideas and practices of the outside situation without feeling alienated from ourselves? How do the many factors such as religion, gender and culture connect all of us, while we find our personal identity? Why is it so important to feel accepted? Will this make us more lost? We are breaking stereotypes, we pursue freedom, but why? Then this common need of belonging to a place, a definition, a word, a label, a group of people. Maintain the same beliefs, dreams, and passions? I sense a dualism, which is where my research starts.

FASCIA is a duet about connection as much as it is about separation. It’s about the substance that binds us both to ourselves and to each other, a biological fabric under skin, that fills unoccupied spaces. It’s inevitable, inescapable and malleable, it stores and releases elastic potential energy. We are fascia; stretching and supportive, surrounding and stabilising, strong and sensitive.

VEDO. Just another dance about Transitions, Insomnia, Hope, Resilience, Love. We decided to let go. I sense you. I open my eyes and I see you. I perceive everything around us.

By and with Cecilia Bartolino, Hannah Stein, Patric De Jesus Musical collaboration Eric Amadeus Joseph Residency space Cordillera, Berlin Original Music Score and Sound Design Theodore Shapiro Fabrizio De André Natureboy Flako Messages

Cecilia Bartolino is a contemporary dancer based in Berlin, Germany. She joined the masa with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel, and continues to work as a freelance dancer in projects across Europe, with artists and companies such as;Sasa QUeliz, Irina Osterberg, Wang Ramirez company, Patric Lindstrom, Oxymoron Dance Company, Ryan Mendoza, Timothy Nouzak,Tchekpo Dance Company and Animi motus Her own choreographic works have been shown at PAF Berlin, Raw and Polished Festival Nuremberg, Solo Coreografia Roma, Florence Dance Festival 2021 and CORPOMOBILE Festival Rome 2020, Tanzhalle, Berlin and Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company.

Hannah Siobhan Stein is a contemporary dancer from Toronto, Canada, and a graduate of Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In addition to working as a dancer with Theater Plauen-Zwickau (Germany), DOX in Utrecht and with Aya Danstheater in Amsterdam, Hannah is has worked on a variety of multi-disciplinary dance projects involving film, photography, and music with artists such as Wolfgang Gray, Adi Halfin and Felix Raeuber. She is invested in furthering collaborations and creative processes between artists across disciplines; challenging notions of performance and performative spaces and striving for the increased access and visibility of artists and audiences.

Hannah & Cecilia have been collaborating since December of 2020; creating choreographic work which embodies their experiences of a pandemic world, of discovering womanhood, the challenges of artistic freedom and responsibility and finding our way as individuals in a turbulent and crisis ridden world. We are opening up from a place of vulnerability and genuine desire to share our deepest fears and desires to connect and find compassion and understanding in our world. We hope that by sharing our creations, we invite others to do the same.

Patric de Jesus is a freelance artist, he’s youth was influenced by athletics, urban dance styles and painting. Upon realising he wanted to pursue performing arts as a professional, he moved to Los Angeles and studied physical theatre. Added ballet training in 2013 (Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School)and continued his studies in Essen (Folkwang University of the Arts), but moved to Berlin to join the Sita Ostheimer Company in 2018. Recently he was an artist-in-residence at Site Stockholm and has been collaborating with companies in Greece and Belgium.