BernarDo
San Rafael
I’m a dance performance artist. Born in Costa Rica, raised in Germany. I dance with swans, shopping bags, teddies, in a landfill in Africa and in a lake in Switzerland
AGBogbloshie/
ist ein Ort in Europa
Dance performance about the strongest human beings on earth-Agbogbloshie is the electronic landfill Europe. It is situated in Ghana, Africa and in your home
„Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ - STEPPING OUT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR.
Shopping Bag
We swim in an ocean of thousands shopping bags looking for happiness.
This nonsensical phenomena change our behavior, our body perception and environment till we get obligate to leave this place called earth.
„Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ - STEPPING OUT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz.“
Mutter
HST (Stralsund): JUNI 2022
„Unterstützt durch das Fond Darstellende Künste, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz.“
Teddy
What about you, your dreams and your childhood? Who are you now and what do you wanted to be?
SEA URCHIN
"Sea urchin” started on the island of Skiathos,Greece as a very spontaneous performance in a bar. I began to collect all the used straws I founded in the city and installed them as a part of my body. It’s remember the beautiful but dangerous and sometimes painful sea urchins around the beaches from the island.
At the same time, I use the performance to make attention to the irrational use of plastic in our daily life.
How do I feel if I have to live with plastic in or on my body as many animals in the ocean?
Since Sommer 2019 I use to do this small action in every city I visit .
Swan Lake
As a testimonial about the situation from artists in Covid times, this performance at the Lake Zurich combine ice swimming with dance and the interaction with real swans and the environment.
Tension
In cooperation with the sound composer Matthias Rosenkranz (59perlen) , “Tension is an installation and a performance about the relationships between humans and humans and the urban environment they are living. The threads as a symbol for fragility and distance, connections and ruptures.
Watch the video below :
PRESSE
Here you can find some of the various newspapers publications about the performances.
About me
Born in beautiful tropical Costa Rica I started my artistic education at the age of 8 at the Conservatorio de Musica y Artes de la Universidad de Costa Rica and finished my studies at the Ecole Professionelle Superior de Danse in Montpellier in France.
I worked as a dancer for Stadttheater Freiburg, Deutsche Rheinoper Düsseldorf / Duisburg, Theater Dortmund and the Oper Bonn and as a performer for Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser in Cologne.
As a teacher I have been invited to give classes in Istanbul (CATI), Skiathos ( ERASMUS), Athens (ECHODRAMA) , Freiburg (Bewegungsart) and Düsseldorf ( Tanzhaus NRW)).
Actually I’m working in Düsseldorf for Plöger/Winkler/Becker and became a member of the theater company Lokstoff in Stuttgart.
Contact me
E-MAIL Adress
me@bernardosanrafael.com