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BREAK ALIVE brings together the results of a three-year dialogue between breakdancer Bboy Khaire and visual artist NEUEREALITAET.

The artists discuss the possibilities and limitations of creativity in the midst of our current socio-cultural, political and economic network.

This network organises, shapes, categorises and structures our being alive. Creativity uses this order, the existing forms, categories and structures, builds on them, and breaks them, dissolving old categories and creating new ones.

BREAK ALIVE explores this process as a rhythmic relation between silence, standstill, and structure on the one hand – the paintings – and movement, expression, creative formations on the other – the breakdance. Breakdance represents the creative force and movement, the undoing of existing categories and the creation of new forms of expression, while the paintings represent silence, standstill, form and structure. The performance is accompanied by the following recitative spoken by Alice Bischof:

How long does it take

to break

a life?


How wrong can it be

to be

alive?

 

An innocent flower growing high

attracting butterflies

from the sky...

 

Let us talk to this boy.

 

Your dreams are high –

so high you'd die

if ever you would reach the sky.

 

You break alive,

but life breaks you

before you die.

 

Moments of freedom:

They exist.

But if you want more, you must

exit.

 

The rules of the game

are structure

and blame for those who try

and break

alive.

 

Breaking the rules

won't keep you alive.

Breaking alive can't undo the rules.

Breaking your life –

is all you can do.

 

Throwing the joker, the golden thread –

blowing the show up til I get mad!

Trying to bend

the rules of the game;

distorting the structure

just for your fame?

 

This is not how it works.

 

I have threaded this frame

to make a new game

and all that is free

shall be captured

by me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Artists

Bboy Khaire is a breakdancer from Casablanca, Morocco, living in Berlin. As a member of the internationally successful breakdance group LHIBA KINGZOO, he performed at various festivals and battles in Africa and Europe. His dance style is characterised by precise footwork and innovative musicality.

NEUEREALITAET is a painter living in Berlin. In her works, she materialises the immaterial, invisible, inaudible and translates it into our shared physical reality. The result is what she calls "new reality": A reality in which material and immaterial things exist at the same level – the painting.
 

Trailer from the première on June 2024 at the art festival 48h Neukölln in Berlin, Germany. Breakdance: BBoy Khaire, Paintings and recitative: Alice Bischof. Video made by the artists.

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