Black Ash

Interdisciplinary dance performance & dances ritual by the choreographer and visual artist Andrea Hackl.

After a Mexican tour last summer, BLACK ASH has travelled to Austria and Bulgaria this year and will now come to the intimate setting Plein Theater. 

The Mystery of Life, of Death and….. LIFE again!

The eternity of Art that overcomes all kind of boundaries,

to embrace everything.

BLASK ASH
BLACK ASH is a raw fairy-tale, inspired by mythology, the figure of the Raven and the legend of La Loba; an eternal wisdom keeper.

The performance speaks of our wild nature and instinct, our inner wisdom to let things die when they must.

It’s a rite of passage, a ritual, a journey of initiation that is as much yours as its mine.

It takes us to a world between worlds, where things have no name and life gets reborn.

ANDREA HACKL
Andrea Hackl is an interdisciplinary artist creating visual and physical poetry. Originally born in Austria, her dance studies have brought her to The Netherlands, after which Amsterdam has become her home base. She works internationally as choreographer, dancer and visual artist / film maker.

Choosing the human body as a main channel of expression, she creates dance and interdisciplinary performances and produces short films that are being presented internationally.

Her work is a celebration of the life force within us human beings, sensorial, kinetic. She wants to share ‘experiences’, a journey. Her artistic and performative practice is influenced by a love for the poetic and fascination for the mystic dimension of life, often inspired by mythology, Buddhism as well as our intrinsic connection to nature.

She equally loves to share her practice & investigation when teaching and is offering her training in studios in form of professional training, workshops or masterclasses.

Touring in the work of other choreographers, she's stood on some of the world's most important stages and her own work has been presented at festivals worldwide.

Her short films [e.g.: SILENT FRAGMENTS & BELE BELTZA] have won several awards for BEST DANCE / EXPERIMENTAL FILM or BEST CHOREOGRAPHY. Her interdisciplinary performance project DREAMER has been awarded BEST LIVE PERFORMANCE at LensDans Festival in Brussels, the jury including distinguished makers such as Michèle Noiret and Isabella Soupart.

Click here to acces a recent interview with the artist, about art, the creative process and the medium of dance film, a conversation between Andrea Hackl and Silja Tuovinen for POOL MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin 2023