At the next weekend we are gonna open a new place for creation and work at the german capital, Berlin. Together with a team of graphic designers, film makers, web programmers and photographers we share our know how and working space. We have a trick film studio, a dark room and all we need to be creative in your fields of art. The Name: Studio9

And here are the members:

23.OUT. 09

Come dance with us as we celebrate one of the greatest Contemporary Theater Festivals of Brasília !!!! And congratulations Cena Contemporânea for extending this great spectacle to São Paulo. It is incredible to be invited to appear on a venue that includes consecrated artists of Brasil like HAMILTON DE HOLANDA  and international masters such as RICHARD GALLIANO and the grammy winner of 2008, ANGELIQUE KIDJO !

To keep the party going DJ BARATA and DJ OOPS, so put on your dancing shoes !!

Hey, after working for two months in Berlin, we are back, full of energy and new ideas !!! We are intensely developing our dance section and focusing our creativity on the creation of a full-length theater show. Rehearsals are going on full schedule and we are working on the business side of our project to get our show on the road as soon as possible.

Even though this is not a performance tour for us, we will do some shows around to keep up with you all. And of course, we enjoy Brasiiiiiiiiiil:o)))))

Teresa de Castro

Benjamin Weiß

Konrad Küchenmeister

Elli Küchenmeister

BerlinLOOPBrasil´s artist exchange: The best of both worlds!!!

Welcome Zoe

Coming to join Teresa on the creative dance front, we saved up and flew in Zoe. A talented and professional dancer/choreographer in Hip Hop and Contemporary dance, Zoe came from Berlin to join BerlinLOOPBrasil. Teresa and Zoe are totally harmonizing on the dance floor and creating some awesome choreos and dance sequences. Their bodies full of passion for dance ( and full of bruises ;o) ), together with live music and live visuals, fills our dance and rehearsing studio with lots of creative energy. New sounds and ideas for visuals inspired by the dancers and their interaction makes for a perfect fusion of the arts and our artists. We are proud and happy to have Zoe on Board!!!:o)

Welcome Zoe

Wesley Messias, the kick ass dancer from Brasil

The dancer´s section is getting fatter and fatter!!!

Wesley is a Brasília kick ass Dancer and Choreographer, and we are proud and honored he started to work with us. His unending energy and professional background from his studies in New York mixed with Teresa´s and Zoe´s styles and skills, takes the dance where we want it to be inside the BerlinLOOPBrasil Show. When u put these three dancers in one room, u need to record their moves and replay it in slow motion to realize what´s going on… Craaaaaaaaaazy;o)

Workshop in Dance

Wesley offered Zoe to give a Hip Hop workshop here in Brasilia at the Tribo das Artes dance studio. Wesley and Zoe made a dynamite choreography and many young dancers showed up and learned the steps so damn fast. We were impressed.

BerlinLOOPBrasil bringing artists together, worldwide, yeah:o))))

Getting Set

Going back and forth between Berlin and Brasília with all our equipment can get $ heavy. 113 kg of the finest multimedia equipment did make it safe over the Atlantic, but shakers, drums, guitars and didgeridoos are still crying at the gate in Berlin. So, this is how we came to meet all the nice people at Condor Music. Thank you guys for the grand tour and for showing us Guitar Heaven!

And a special thanks to Mc Gyver! Because of you we now have the first didgeridoo made out of … sewer pipes.

The first show this round in Brasil

We performed our first show at the Calourada da UNB in the Centro Comunitário. 3000 people showed up and enjoyed a 5 Band Concert Night. We were so glad to share the stage with bands from Brasília like Posto 9, Hakkazora,

Brown Há .

As the second last act, we opened for B Negão e os Seletores de Frequência, who by the way, funked us out! :o)

Live visuals on the screen and the roof of the tent, live dance on stage and the live music… what a rocking venue! Teresa, Zoe, Ben, Konrad and Elli (his sister, making the stage cam operator) on stage, all together at the same time, giving the audience the art fusion result we are all about, gave us the familiar feeling we enjoy so much and turned a music venue into an art adventure tent…

A small step for us, but a giant step in the direction of the BerlinLOOPBrasil Show…

Yeahhhhh, we rocked!!!:o)))

Berlin is a city with a quite long history. After the Wall broke down between the east and the west part several factories had to close and stayed empty up to our time. One of these is the “Eisfabrik” in the center of berlin. Near the River it was one of the production places for industrial ice.  We choosed this historical building to change it to a cinema and cultural place. City intervention …..

Reclaim/Explore your City

PechaKuchaNight here on the PLATOON.area. it has been an incredible night and the presentations were all very interesting and diverse…

You can listen to the speach here (german):

http://pechakucha.de/webplayer/PK_14/09_KKuechenmeisterBWeiss.html

Fotos:

http://www.radioakud.org/akud/PechaKuchaVol14PLATOON/

Pecha Kucha Night is an event in which presenters give brief presentations accompanied by 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds. Presenters are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art, music and other creative fields.

Giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds for each speaker, it’s hard to become bored.

We were invited to talk about BerlinLOOPBrasil. Benjamin Weiß made this Job and he was happy to reach 200 interested people from all kind of different backrounds.

A great night, thanks.

BerlinLOOPBrasil goes Pecha Kucha Vol 14. Berlin Platoon

Another great piece by stopmotion artist Stephan Müller: The music video of Konrads song Traffic Lights. 3000 single photos were used to shoot this clip in the summer of 2008. During the photo shooting the civil police showed up twice thinking we were gangsters robbing the car. With their guns they pointed right at our heads they really scarred the hell out of us. Thank god we survived and are now able to present you the results of our work! Enjoy!

On April 4th we are proud to present the first Konrad Kuechenmeister concert of this year in Berlin. The party will take place at the Lovelite (Simplonstr. 38/40 in Fhain) and Konrads performance will be supported by live visuals and short movies. This will be the only chance to listen to Konrad and his new songs in Berlin for quiet a while as he is going to go back into the studio after this concert to work on his second CD.

At the turntables: DJ Pyroman is know for his all-in philosophy. He mixes basicaly every kind of music (electro / minimal / techno / hiphouse / balkanbeats / breakbeats / grime / soul / funk / mashups / hiphop-classics / dancehall / reggae / soca / reggaeton) in never before heard variations.
DJ Cosai and György de Val (both spur1 from Dresden) will remind us of the good times we’ve had in the Brazilian clubs when the music that just makes you dance no matter what (Reggae, Ragga, Funky Breaks).

We finally uploaded some new photos of our trip to Rio and of the “Criolina y Funfarra apresentam BLB”-party! Check them out >>here<<.

On febuary 16th we had a concert in front of the biggest crowd yet. Three thousand people were watching the show on febuary 16th as we were playing as the supporting act of Manu Chao at Arena Futbol Club. What can i say? Of course it was an unbelieavable night. Let the pictures talk:

3000 People were watching Konrad when he was performing as the supporting act for Manu Chao at Arena Futbal Club in Brasilia on Febuary 16, 2009.