Staatsballett Berlin performs three groundbreaking works by William Forsythe, who remounted them with the company’s dancers. The evening offers a lively encounter with ballet as a process to decipher by dancers and audience alike. Premiering at Deutsche Oper on 16 February 2024, it also shows between 19–23 February, 4–14 March, and 1–9 April.
Continue reading “Beyond the joy of the evident”
Alice Heyward
is a dancer, choreographer, dramaturge, writer and teacher from Australia based in Berlin. Her practice develops through diverse collaborations, as author, co-author and interpreter. Through movement-thought, she explores the production of embodied poetics in dance, choreography, bodywork and writing. Her writing is published regularly in various contexts.
Ground Control
Continue reading “Ground Control”Melanie Jame Wolf’s performance More Ballads of Outlaw Feelings on 3 February 2024, as part of her expansive exhibition The Creep at E-WERK Luckenwalde from 21 October 2023 – 10 February 2024, offers a vivid characterisation of the way power patterns become, seemingly, inevitable.
blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire
Continue reading “blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire”This resting, patience by Ewa Dziarnowska, presented from 3-6 pm on 13 and 14 January at Sophiensæle in the frame of Tanztage Berlin 2024, is an emotional passage of bodily tension rising, rupturing, releasing and regenerating through cycles of feeling as dancing.
Loose Trade
Continue reading “Loose Trade”MIKE (2023) by Dana Michel, presented across three afternoons from 1 to 3 December 2023 by the Berliner Festspiele at Martin-Gropius-Bau, creates a sensitive, tolerant and humorous space for contemplations and questions about how bodies are put to work.
