NEWS

May 2025

THE YELLOW BOAT 
A Contemporary Danceartproject for two dancers, one vocalist and one life electronic music artist.

​The piece THE YELLOW BOAT consists of five Acts that deal with the five human senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. 

Act I: TOUCH
What attracts us to explore the five human sensory experiences? Our senses are the channels through which we perceive the world; the filters through which external information penetrates and our own impulses reach the outside world. Where do our senses take us? What dynamics are they tuned to from an evolutionary point of view? What have they been developed for?

Our senses and our brain have evolved to reduce the uncertainties in our lives, to minimize dangers and unfamiliar situations. They transform the inherently uncertain into certainty – every moment, every day. The biological motivation behind many of our habits and social, cultural, even political or religious automatisms is the desire to reduce uncertainty by following rigid rules in a futile attempt to disconnect from a world that is alive precisely because it is interconnected and constantly in motion.
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In their first study “Act 1: TOUCH”, Company STEVE explores the human sense Touch. Accompanied by live music by the composer Stefano Ciardi and together with the voice artist Daniela Marcozzi, the dancers Tea Nadir and Verena Steffen move through tactile metaphors in a dynamic, poetic way. The piece swings in and out of our skin, transforming the stage of Theatre Expedition Metropolis into a place of gentle touches, violent clashes, vivid encounters and surprising recognition.

Artistic Direction: Stefano Ciardi, Daniela Marcozzi, Verena Steffen
Choreography: Verena Steffen
Dramaturgy / Body Voice Performance : Daniela Marcozzi
Composition / Life Electronics: Stefano Ciardi
Dance / Choreography: Tea Nadir, Verena Steffen
Length approx. : 40 min

Reopening:
When: 30. May 2025 / 8pm
Where: Theater Expedition Metropolis, Ohlauerstr.41, 10999 Berlin
Ticketlink: coming up! Reservation: [email protected]
Prices: 16€ / 10€
Infos: expedition-metropolis.de/


PREMIERE  
When: 13. , 14. , 15., Dec. 2024  /  7pm, 7pm, 5pm 
Where: CLB Gallery Berlin, Prinzenstrasse 84.2, 10969 Berlin Moritzplatz
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com  plus box office
​Information: www.clb-berlin.de

NOTE: The performance follows on from the existing visual sound installation in the gallery by artist Eiji John Infante Mitsuta and takes up elements of it in the piece. 
Gallery doors open for the installation on Friday and Saturday at 6pm and on Sunday at 4pm.
Subsequent performances begin on Friday and Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 5pm.​

Fotocredits: Lea Friedrich

Rezension / Claudia Niemann:

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June 2024

Company STEVE is very excited to have found two new members that, together with the artistic director Verena Steffen, now build the ARTISTIC TRIO of the Company!

Daniela Marcozzi (Dramaturg/Body-Voice Artist) -has been working professionally in the performing arts for at least 15 years as a performer, director, trainer and university theater researcher. She also works with voice and body-resonators - inspired by the body-voice training from Peter Rose, Grotowski's former student. 
She is highly experienced in staging existing texts, and with working on textual, stage creation based improvisation and devised theater. Her special interest lies in the interplay between movement and sound, music, voice, and drama.

Stefano Ciardi (Musician) - is an Italian Musician, Composer, Sound Designer and Sound Engineer based in Berlin (Germany). He began studying classical guitar from the age of 14 and electric bass and double bass from the age of 16, subsequently playing in numerous musical projects, both in Italy and in EU. In 2003 he began his studies at the University of Florence, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy. At the same time, he began studying Electronic Music and New Technologies applied to the audio with, among others, Giancarlo Lanza (focused on Ableton Live Software).
As a founding member of Zaches Teatro he has made numerous artistic Productions of Contemporary Dance and Theater for Adults and Children and won numerous Awards over the last decade.