Agata Anna Nitecka

- full of energy -

- missing 14 people around me in the morning -

- looking forward to perform and work -

- encouraged in personality -

- I observe certain perspectives grewing up -

- I should start every year like this -

Ines Dunemann

"I think Angelika's and Johannes' concept of "teaching" performance art is as simple as brillant. It is situated in the middle of life: dealing with given situations, finding a balance between personal and group needs, percieving everyday life and transform it into something you can identify with- all in all, it is about creating an atmosphere of trust and freedom, so that creativity can flow and everything else will just happen...this is the way it works for me -a big gift!"

Stephanie Auth

Port Performance - A statement about the workshop which took place in Tallinn and Pärnu 2007. The text is compiled by Simon Häfele.

As a introduction to the following lines, I want to point to the fact, that I have been asked by Angelika Fojtuch and BBB Johannes Deimling to write this.  The asked all workshop members to do so, BEFORE the start to write feedbacks about our works.  Doing it this way seams a bit strange. It sounds to me like this: "If you are writing something nice about us, we are going to write something nice about you."  As far as I got to know the two, they could not really mean it that way.  Maybe the just forgot to think about that fact.  Anyway I am now pretty unsure about how "honest" this my writings could or should not be.  Usually i am a very critical writer.

Being aware of this background my feedback about "Port Performance" is of course a very nice one and therefore sounds like follows:

"Port Performance" is a very valuable project.  I highly recommend it to anyone who want's to become performance artist or work within the field of body expressions.  It is a inordinately didactical experience and helps young artists to grow there personalities expansively.  Group dynamical processes are a essential part of the extraordinary and very detailed planed educative program.  The practical parts of this workshop, the living together and the arrangements made during the creative progresses, makes most of the individuals loosing there ego-many in order to get replaced with his/her own personality.  At the same time excessive group feelings are evoked by the used teaching methods.  Personal assertions are helping young and insecure individuals to find their own strength and power.  The exceedingly fine-tuned feedback rounds along with the offered "tools" of artistic expression are giving this workshop it's ultimate accolade and this special taste of hyper-precise excellence.

What else to say about a perfect work, apart form:  "It is perfect!" ?

Tremendous lovely greetings form binsh to "Port Performance".

Simon Häfele.  One member of "Port Performance" Estonia 2007.

Footnote: This text can be only published as a full pice. The author can not allow to cut parts out of the context. Sorry about this restriction.

Simon Häfele

"aitäh !"

Daniel Kupferberg