Skype Duet

Performed live simultaneously in New York and Berlin via Skype, one woman tries to reach out to the world using a laptop as her only means of communication; a quest for human connection in the modern world. Featuring live online interaction and lots of the unexpected, this piece provides the audience with the opportunity to personally connect with New York City and it's people (and vice verse).

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M.31

M.31 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ari Benjamin Meyers is a haunting musical pursuit based on Fritz Lang’s 1931 film “M. Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder”.  Brina will take part in "M.31", which is being created especially for HAU and Berlin.

21-22 September / Hebbel Am Ufer / Berlin

5 Steps Towards Constructing Resilience

Brina collaborated with dance Artist Ehud Darash on the project "5 Steps Towards Constructing Resilience", A series of workshops, actions, residencies and performances in different contexts and constellations in Israel, that physically practices the principles of resistance, sensizitation and submission, to come in contact with and in resistance to the Israeli political reality. 

This project was supported by the European Cultural Foundation

Operative Performance - “Ctrl+Alt+ESCAPE”

Our workshop title is deducted from the keyboard shortcut used to force-quit computing process gone unresponsive or awry.  Is actual resistance possible under the given circumstances? What role does the body play in a system without touch? How do we render the workings of virtual systems tangible in real space?

7 digital-media and performance artists were invited to come together for a one week intensive workshop, to explore these themes and create a performative or installation response together.

The Lost

Brina Stinehelfer performed original work as a part of "The Lost", the new film project by artist Reynold Reynolds.

"Die Verlorenen" is a fictional unfinished feature film from the 1930's shot in the underground night club "Troika" in Berlin, a venue for avante-garde cabaret and performance similar to Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.  The film captured some of the most shocking performances and characters from the 1930's Berlin performance scene.

Lost Connections Box

This performance installation was presented at the Transmediale Festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of the kom.post collective's offering of mini-performances and micro-conferences in the Open Zone of the festival.  With Connection Box, the spectator is given the opportunity to have a unique intimate connection with a stranger in a far away land- through Skype.

PASS

Presented at Flughafen Templehof in Berlin and le Biennale de la danse de Lyon, Brina performed with the dance theater company Lis:sanga in their production which included 50 dancers from 10 nations between the ages of 4 and 70, exploring identity, nationality, and the power of the passport.

Playing to Win! How to Manipulate Others and Get What You Want from Every Situation

The interactive workshop „How to Manipulate Others and Get What You Want from Every Situation“ teaches you how to coerce, convince, and influence other people to do what you want, and get what you want out of every situation, every time. A funny and disturbing look at modernized trends in human interaction.

Created and performed by Brina Stinehelfer and Justin Beard

The Folklore and Artistic Troupe of Dhalaristan

Developed in collaboration with Meyrick Kaminski and an international collective, the project was an exploration of cultural authenticity and identity, by the creation of a new culture.  The project received a grant from the European Cultural Foundation to tour 9 different Balkan countries in 2010.

CUT Project

Brina Stinehelfer collaborated with Athens based theater company Theatre Entopia on the project, CUT.  The project was developed through residencies in still “cut” territories, such as Berlin, Kosovo, Nicosia, Belfast, Palestine.  which resulted in a final multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary web installation and performance art event.

Berlin Performance: November, 2009 / Tacheles

Athens Performance: March, 2010 / Dipylon Theater

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Roll With It

Brina Stinehelfer worked with Amsterdam based company Stichting Nieuwe Helden in summer and fall of 2009 as a performer and collaborator on their project, Roll With It.  On this tour, SNH explore the identity of varied European cities, and collaborated with the artists they meet there to create performances in public spaces.  Brina collaborated with the company in Berlin, Skopje, Macedonia as part of the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe, and Belgrade Serbia as part of the BITEF Festival.

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Happiness Now!

Are you tired of not getting what you want out of life?  Do you often feel ignored, overlooked, powerless or simply unfit for the demands of everyday life? We can help!

Happiness Now! Is an interactive, site specific performative experience unlike any other. It is designed specifically for YOU to provide instant, easy to use, long lasting results, guaranteed!*

*Terms and conditions apply.

Created and performed by Brina Stinehelfer, Hilde Tuinstra, Andrea Cadorin, Thomas Schütt, and Leonard Bessemer

Mirage - Inter

Brina was selected by Belgrade based company Doplegenger to participate in Mirage-inter, an interdisciplinary project dealing with themes of media manipulation, stereotypes, identity, and communication.  Content was developed through a 3 month process of theoretical exchange between 5 women spread across the world who had never met, or even seen pictures of each other.  They met for a practical phase in Belgrade to create the final presentation, performance and film.

Limitless Joy

A dance-theater epic focusing on the origins of our species voracious desire. Beginning with Genesis and traveling thousands of years to present-day New York, the piece tracks a single aspect of our nature--our ceaseless quest for joy--through human history.

Between The Shadows

Brina collabrated with artist Rania Khalil on Between the Shadows. Stylistically inspired by Film Noir and German Expressionism, Between the Shadows combined object and shadow puppetry with movement and video. Wordlessly, the show commented on apathy and it's particular relationship to war.