A Space InBetween
Leila Marie Patzies
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Maddi Fuente Ubani
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Savina Casarin
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Miriam Salvador López
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Jonathan Batomene Braun
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Photo: Patrick Tjorven Stein
A sensory play with time, space, and perception between presence and absence.
In a city shaped by the constant flow of moving bodies—agitated, tense, controlled—A Space InBetween by Leila Patzies invites a shift in the perception of time and space. Inspired by Fred Sandback’s minimalist installations, Patzies applies an onion principle, layering and removing sound, light, and movement to explore the interplay between absence and presence. In collaboration with three dancers and a saxophonist, the work investigates internal bodily spaces—skin, fascia, bone—and uses the voice as a dancing organ through the Six Healing Sounds of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Through live instant composition, silence, raw body sound, and site-specific materials reshape spatial boundaries, inviting the audience into shifting states of presence, absence, and transformation.
By Leila Marie Patzies in close collaboration with
Dance: Maddi Fuente Ubani, Savina Casarin, Miriam Salvador López
Sound: Jonathan Batomene Braun
Texts: Thich Nhat Hanh, Yuliya Tsukerman
Dramaturgy: Hadrien Daigneault-Roy
This is the first collaboration in this constellation, bringing together freelance dancers and musicians based in Berlin under the artistic direction of Leila Marie Patzies (born 1994). Patzies is a choreographer, dancer, and educator trained at Iwanson International (Munich), Varium (Barcelona), and CobosMika Seeds (Girona), with a focus on improvisation, acting, and partnering.
She has worked with internationally renowned choreographers and created Why Death Was Just Death, shown in Berlin and Italy. She received two grants from Dachverband Tanz (2021, 2023) to support artistic growth and dancer rehabilitation and one grant from ChanceTanz to work with young audiences in 2025. In 2023, she founded the Berlin dance collective Pieles Permeables.
Currently, the group is expanding its collaborative practice through A Space InBetween, an interdisciplinary, improvisation-based project that bridges somatic research, live music, and spatial experimentation — and will serve as a foundation for future joint creations.
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