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Gravity as Belonging is the title of the Performance Project Melissa will facilitate every Monday and Wednesday evening at Tanzfabrik Schule in Berlin, starting on Wed, 19.02.2025 and culminating in a sharing of the process on Wed, 02.04.2025.
Gravity as Belonging Berlin
:SECOND HALF: is a multifaceted vessel for practice, critical reflection and care.
Events span a wide range of curated themes.
We hold a firm belief in holding space for people and ideas to intersect. :SECONDHALF: expressely encourages practices and projects revolving around cross-disciplinarity, decoloniality and sustainability.
:secondhalf: Berlin
Melissa is part of Generation 11 (ws 2024/ss 2026) of students of the Master Programme in Contemporary Dance Education (MA CoDE) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
MA CoDE at HFMDK Frankfurt am Main
ABYSSEA-THRU: Alien and Alive premieres at Uferstudios in Berlin on the 15.08.2024.
It is a multi-disciplinary performance created by choreographer Gizem Aksu (TR) in collaboration with performers Leyla Postalcıoğlu and Melissa Ugolini, funded by the Berlin Senate.
ABYSSEA-THRU: Alien and Alive Berlin
TRIBALE presented in its performative format on 06.04.2023 at ARGEkultur Salzburg (AT)
Tribale @ PERFORMdANCE Festival 2023 - Salzburg
Cie7273 celebrate their 20 Years Anniversary with a new version of TARAB presented at Salle du Lignon, Geneva (CH)
Tarab Anniversary - Cie7273
Geneva
TRIBALE screened at Videobox 2023 at Cinema Astra in Pesaro (IT)
Tribale at Videobox 2023 - Pesaro
INTERMEZZO is presented on the 17.09.2022 in its site-specific set up at Atelier Camponi Pesaro (IT)
Intermezzo premiere @ Hangartfest 2022 - Pesaro
IN YOUR HEAD the new creation of Swedish company Art of Spectra is presented in Vara (SE) in October 2022
In Your Head premiere - Art of Spectra - Vara
TRIBALE is presented on 10.09.2022 at Teatro Maddalena in Pesaro (IT)
Tribale @ Hangartfest 2022 - Pesaro
Article on Italian Newspaper
Intermezzo
Research promoted by Arts Council UK and Aakash Odedra Company in collaboration with choreographer Gizem Aksu dealing with virtual and augmented reality
Cosmoception
Article published on fictivemag.org written in collaboration with Matt Hanson
Movement Archive from Iran
#jesuis from Aakash Odedra Company is presented throughout Germany in 2019
#jesuis Germany tour
How Movement Makes Meaning, reportage interview by Ivy Akinyi and Nandini Kochar for New York University Abu Dhabi
Movement Archive NYUAD
#jesuis wins award during Edinburgh International Fringe Festival
Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2017
Article on Italian newspaper
One by One review
Article on Italian newspaper
Olympic Games Opening Ceremony 2012
Article on Italian newspaper
One by One review