Exploring the Psychology Of Space
Interdisciplinary Artistic Research
Following my fascination with space and resonance, I created a platform for interdisciplinary performance and artistic research in 2022. The site-specific performances engage with the architecture and social context of the spaces, questioning hierarchies, inviting forms of participation and proposing new visual languages and social narratives.
At the heart of every audiovisual experience, a dialogue emerges between the body and sound, dance and space, and between performers and audience, weaving temporary webs of connection and moments of contemplation. The project-based collaborations grow like a collective think tank in motion, grounded in a process-oriented, experimental approach.
The Art of Play: Concrete Ballet • Performance 2024 • Brandenburg Gate Berlin
The Art of Play explores the vibrant relationship between the body, sound and the magic of collective experiences in public spaces. Created for the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship in Berlin, the piece celebrated the beauty and elegance of play, proposing sustainable and inclusive ways of sharing art in urban environments. Performed live in front of the Brandenburg Gate and broadcast throughout the area, it reached an audience of over 1,600 people.
Blending contemporary dance, live video and sound performance, the piece navigated the tension between stillness and motion, inviting intimacy within a large-scale public setting. It gave a stage to afrodiasporic dance traditions such as Bruk Up, ballet, hip hop, krumping and Latin ballroom. Digitally distorted audio and synthesizer textures shaped immersive soundscapes, culminating in a one-hour after-show set that transformed the location into a vibrant community space.
TEAM→ Producer/Curator/Creative Director: Milena A. Kraft→ Dance performance: Gary Clarke, Vasiliki Papapostolou and Jamal Sterrett→ Sound performance/ music: Art Donor and Xarli→ Visuals: VOJID→ Costume: Milena A. Kraft x Haderlump → Production live screening: Sebastian Brunnlechner→ Camera: Luna Zscharnt and Sanipt Palakkal→ Support camera: Zair Stolik and Solene Vangout→ Project assistance: Eva Hüster→ After Show Set: Inken→ Video documentation: Edlin Jap→ Photography: Alexander Rentsch, Kulturprojekte Berlin
ALCHEMY PART I & II_ SUBVERSIVE TENDERNESS • Performance 2023 • Teufelsberg Berlin
ALCHEMY PART I & II is an interdisciplinary performance and poetic dialogue between art forms asking: what if the stage were an altar and the performance an offering?
Created in collaboration with a diverse group of artists for the Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2023, this piece offers an ethereal audiovisual experience, weaving together sound, movement and language. At its core is a conversation between spoken word and body, where poetry, dance and sound interact to explore tenderness as a subversive force. The performance unfolds at the intersection of dance, theatre, music, spoken word and performance art. It shines a light on marginalised perspectives and explores themes of intersectionality, identity, queerness and belonging, offering a space for vulnerability and resistance through embodied storytelling.
TEAM→ Producer/Curator/Creative Director: Milena A. Kraft→ Dance performance: Jamal Sterrett and Christina Negucioiu→ Spoken Word: Awa Faridah Ndiaye→ Sound performance: CHAT1→ Music performance/ violine: Eli Wenentxu→ Visuals: VOJID→Costume: Milena A. Kraft x Assembled Half→ Camera: Sebastian Brunnlechner→ Photography: Reza Khodaveisi→ Project assistance: Eva Hüster→ Assistant event management: Joey Steffens→ After Show Set: Azadeh Zandieh→ Stage hands: Fiona Con and Elisabeth Gregor
We welcome inquiries from cultural festivals and organizers of events. If your aim is to create innovative ways for the audience to experience your venue or context of your festival trough contemporary artforms, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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