Angela Alves & Claire Lefèvre
In Bed with Angela & Claire
After their first collaboration, in which they dedicated themselves to the topic of resting within institutions, Angela Alves and Claire Lefèvre meet again a few years later in Vienna. At brut nordwest, they now continue their exploration and research on care and rest as forms of resistance.
In a two-day workshop, drawing from their individual experiences, they open a reflection and movement space for exchange and shared inquiry: How can softness become a strategy of resistance? Which forms of care, rest, and access are essential for (neurodivergent and chronically ill) artists to produce and work in an accessible and equitable way? What concrete steps can institutions take to enable these conditions? And can one work from their bathtub?
The workshop is aimed at artists, curators, and dramaturges, inviting participants to develop tools and conditions that foster softness in artistic and institutional collaboration.
Angela Alves lives in Berlin with a chronic neurological illness and works as a choreographer, dancer and cultural worker at the interface of art, body and politics. In her work, she questions dominant social narratives of “healthy” and “sick” and brings her sensitive and intelligent nervous system to bear in her exploration of voids and contradictions. From the perspective of “lived experience”, she creates anti-ableist performances and sound installations as well as a cultural practice of mutual care and solidarity, which Angela Alves trains in collaboration with others. Angela Alves studied dance at ArtEZ (NL) and dance studies at the FU Berlin. Since October 2023 she has been working as an artistic collaborator in Prof. Claire Cunningham’s project team at the Hochschulübergreifenden Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT), where she researches, teaches and practices neurocrip-feminist practices such as resting, cessation and pleasure.
Claire Lefèvre is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer, and reality TV enthusiast. In her stage works, she likes to think of herself as a hostess with the mostest, welcoming collaborators and audience members into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetics are gently interwoven. Her work with text spans from stand-up comedy to grant applications, flirting with queer feminist theory or performance criticism. She also works as a ghost writer, mostly for the spectral appeal of the job title.
Accessibility
The workshop takes place in a room on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible.
Registration for assistants, accompanying persons and assistance dogs is possible via the registration form as well as at brehm@brut-wien.at or via WhatsApp +43 676 587 8723.
We offer a pick-up service so that everyone can find their way to brut nordwest. Please let us know at brehm@brut-wien.at or by phone and WhatsApp on +43 676 587 8723 and we will be happy to pick you up.
Tactile guidance system
Contact persons wearing yellow waistcoats with small ringing bells are on site and are available if you have a concern or are looking for guidance in the theatre.
Alternative seating and lying options
If you have any questions, please contact Katrin Brehm (brehm@brut-wien.at and +43 676 587 8723).
