General – tanzschreiber

Anja Goette (1978 – 2025)

6. January 2026, Katja Hensel

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Ehemalige Ko-Leiterin des Tanzbüros Berlin |
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Shifting Truth

5. January 2026, Miriam Taschler

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A Scenario Of A System Off by Ixchel Mendoza Hernández examines perception and reality, both through dance and in words. The piece can be seen from 18 to 21 December 2025 at radialsystem.
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Time Decides (Dance as an Object of Exercise, or Exercise as Dance Object)

17. December 2025, Alice Heyward

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Toil by Sheena McGrandles, premiering at HAU2 from 3–6 December, presents dance as physical training and disciplined repetition—a dancer’s prosaic mode of work.

Between Desire and Destruction. Mixed Feelings

8. December 2025, Johanna Ackva

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Manon Parent and Alma Palacios have been fixated on the author, actress, and resistance fighter Goliarda Sapienza for years. Autobiography of Contradictions (5-7 December 2025, Dock11) is a homage to her.

The Price of Looking Good

8. December 2025, Inky Lee

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Showroomdummies #4, directed by Gisèle Vienne and Étienne Bideau-Rey, had its German premiere on 5 December 2025 at Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The piece raises disturbing questions about East Asian female stereotypes.
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Creatures of the Dark

4. December 2025, Inky Lee

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Wunderkammer, choreographed by Marcos Morau with music by Clara Aguilar and Ben Meerwein and performed by Staatsballett Berlin, premiered on 31 October 2025 at the Komische Oper Berlin. With its striking scenes exploding one after another, it propels the audience through a dark sci-fi dream. The show continues until 23 April 2026.

Berlin as A Home for Queer?

17. November 2025, Miriam Taschler

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The Queer Performance Festival takes place from 12-16 November. In this article, voices from the queer community report on Homecoming – The Grand Showcase, which fired up the Theater im Delphi on 15 November.
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Washed over

13. November 2025, Johanna Ackva

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With the solo performance of DJAM LEELII, a Necroromantic (5-9 November 2025, sophiensaele), Djibril Sall created a ritual that conjured up memories of the ocean for all those who have lost their lives in its torrents.
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Above All, I Am Man

3. November 2025, Miriam Taschler

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The Brotherhood is Carolina Bianchi and Cara de Cavalo’s second piece in the Cadela Força trilogy.It is simultaneously nuanced, vulnerable, and strong. The piece about the patriarchy behind sexual violence can be experienced at HAU from 30 October to 1 November.

Pas de Deux of Tenderness and Harshness

21. October 2025, Maxie Liebschner

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SLEEPWALKING BALLAD, a piece by Symbolic Movement Choir, celebrated its premiere on 9 October 2025 at the Pfefferberg Theater.
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A Totalitarian Kinetic Machine

5. October 2025, Alice Heyward

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la nef des fols (2024) by cie. toula limnaios returned to the company’s own HALLE Tanzbühne Berlin from 24 September to 4 October 2025. The choreography sought to embody a well-known allegory’s tension between order and delirium.
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“Please Don’t Make My Bed”*

5. October 2025, Johanna Ackva

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magicians in bed is about interpreting bed creases. During the Unrenewable Energies festival (15 September – 17 October 2025, Uferstudios), Jeanne Eschert introduced a practice that is otherwise relegated to our homes and mostly to people who rarely leave their beds.
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Flat Yet Full

30. September 2025, Alice Heyward

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MASTEKTOMIE. Ein bittersüßes Abschiedslied (MASTECTOMY: a bittersweet farewell song), a colourful presentation on surgery, care, and affirmation by CHICKS* freies performancekollektiv, returned to Sophiensæle from 26–29 September.
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Happy Hour is Sad

27. September 2025, Inky Lee

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Happy Hour, directed and choreographed by Tomi Paasonen and performed by Queer Church of Ballet, premiered on 25 May 2025 at DOCK 11. It mixes ballet, contemporary dance, and drag to contemplate the notion of happiness.
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Material Girl & Footprints

17. September 2025, Miriam Taschler

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This year’s Tanznacht Berlin, “Vocal Affairs”, took place from 10 to 14 September 2025. The festival was curated by Mila Pavićević and Felicitas Zeeden and showcased a broad selection of formats and feminist voices.
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Marielle Presente! …Humanity is Overrated

8. September 2025, Maia Joseph

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The PLATAFORMA BERLIN FESTIVAL ran from 5 September to 13 September 2025 at Dock 11. BIPoC/Latinx artists were invited to present works that shed light on geopolitical issues, and how they connect to the current and future state of humanity.
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They’re Coming to Steal

3. September 2025, Maxie Liebschner

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Some Thing Folk by Ligia Lewis and the Cullberg Company celebrated its premiere on 28 August 2025 at HAU 1 during Tanz im August.

Symmetrical Creatures, Softly Continuous

2. September 2025, Inky Lee

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Screensaver Series: Sleeper Softwares, a work by J Neve Harrington focusing on access and neurodivergence, celebrated its German premiere at St. Elisabeth Church from 27 to 29 August 2025 as a part of Tanz im August. On the morning of 29 August, Harrington led a workshop for neurodivergent movers under the title Scaffold and Decoration.
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Spitting Out

1. September 2025, Alice Heyward

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In the 2025 SUBMERGE festival at Lake Studios, invited artists presented performance works alongside workshops, sharing practices that shaped their work. Siegmar Zacharias’ I don’t want to swallow anymore was presented on 16 August.
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To A(n imaginary) Cigarette

20. August 2025, Johanna Ackva

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On 15 August 2025 during Tanz im August, Tournament, a collaboration between choreographer Adam Linder, composer Ethan Braun, and the solo ensemble Kaleidoskop, celebrated its premiere – a theatrical battle of symbols.
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Composition as Explanation

29. July 2025, Alice Heyward

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Dance On Ensemble’s invitation to Lucinda Childs to restage works from the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new commission, prompted reflection on history, aging, and their nuanced portrayals. The works were presented at Radialsystem from 24–27 July.
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Crowded Emptiness

14. July 2025, Inky Lee

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Taw’am, meaning “twin” in Arabic, explores the grief of artistic director and performer Jouana Samia over the loss of her twin brother. It premiered on 10 July 2025 at Uferstudios Berlin.
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Sheeeee (…) ppphhh haaa

11. July 2025, Johanna Ackva

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From 8-13 July 2025, Angela Vitovec, aka Angela Schubot, and a mixed ensemble of performers from Theater Thikwa and the independent dance scene will once again showcase Ya!, a performance created in collaboration with yarrow in 2024.
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A Poignant Plea for Climate Justice at the Deutsche Oper

8. July 2025, Miriam Taschler

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With the trilogy Figures in Extinction, Nederlands Dans Theater & Complicité celebrated its premiere in Germany on 4 July 2025 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. This gripping piece about climate change, empathy, and death ran until 6 July.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, is what I see the truth at all?

7. July 2025, Maia Joseph

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In Portrait Performance, Ashley Temba reflects upon the assumptions made about him, and how they have affected the way he sees himself. The solo work premiered on 5 July and ran until 8 July 2025 at Ballhaus Naunynstraße.
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Dough, Stones, Storms

30. June 2025, Alice Heyward

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Studies on Infinity #3 – Caravaggio by Isabelle Schad was performed 27–28 June at Wiesenburg Sommerfest.ival 2025. Inspired by the Baroque painter’s intense naturalism, it blends collective body awareness in cycles of drama without climax or resolution.
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Une robe couleur du temps

25. June 2025, Alice Heyward

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In Aurora, Lina Gómez’s dancing meets the interplay of evolving light and sound by Alejandra Cárdenas (Ale Hop) and Bruno Pocheron at DOCK11 on 22 June as part of soundance festival berlin 2025.
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Dreams of Water

25. June 2025, Miriam Taschler

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The open studio with Julie Peters and Kata Kwiatkowska took place at ada Studio on 20 June 2025. ada Studio’s series “reinkommen (come inside)” gave upcoming artists the opportunity to immerse themselves in their work and share it.
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Washing Machine of Life

24. June 2025, Inky Lee

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Fil Rouge, choreographed and performed by Rossella Canciello, Paolo Cingolani, Ivaylo Dimitrov, Susanna Grob, Annukka Hirvonen, Anni Lattunen, and Jonas Marx during artist residency periods in Berlin and Italy between 2023 and 2024, was presented at DOCK 11 on 20 June 2025, as part of the soundance festival berlin.
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Understanding Body Work

16. June 2025, Johanna Ackva

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On three evenings (12-13 June 2025), six students from the MA Solo Dance and Authorship (SoDA) at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT) present their ongoing research projects. This article reflects on two of these presentations.
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They relate

4. June 2025, Maxie Liebschner

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When I Saw the Sea, choreography by Ali Chahrour, celebrated its European premiere on 2 June 2025 in HAU 1. Performance: Zena Moussa, Tenei Ahmad, Rania Jamal. Music: Lynn Adib, Abed Kobeissy
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Unravelling Expectations

28. May 2025, Maia Joseph

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A Study in Thread by Arada Böhm and Laura Faiß offers a new meaning to women’s craftsmanship, and challenges societal views on gender stereotypes. The piece premiered on 22 May and ran until 25 May 2025 at Brotfabrik.
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Laughing at Ourselves

27. May 2025, Inky Lee

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A Year without Summer, directed and choreographed by Florentina Holzinger, premiered on 21 May 2025 at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, featuring an all cis-female, naked cast—Holzinger’s signature—who display a range of diverse and at times visceral talents.
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For All the Tired Horses

27. May 2025, Alice Heyward

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Dawn by Adam Seid Tahir, which premiered at MDT Stockholm and was presented at Sophiensæle from 23–25 May in the festival Making Life in the Ruins, creates inspiration, reviving ancient runic symbols.
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Embodiment at Arm’s Length

25. May 2025, Alice Heyward

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An excerpt of her upcoming piece developed through the Master’s program in Choreography at HZT Berlin, Vera Shchelkina’s Everyone here is a bit of a horse, which played in the Potsdamer Tanztage festival from 22–23 May, directs encounters through manual contact.
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Art, Bullets, Cold Blood

19. May 2025, Johanna Ackva

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On 16 May 2025 at the Forum Theatertreffen 1965-2025 in the foyer of the Berliner Festspiele, choreographer Carolina Mendonça offered insight into Something Is Approaching, a new piece that will celebrate its premiere in June.

Where Am I?

2. May 2025, Inky Lee

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On Stage, a performance by Maria Hassabi, had its German premiere at Radialsystem on 25 and 26 April 2025.
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In Search of Your Own Voice

28. April 2025, Maxie Liebschner

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“Inner Mining – experiment #1: voice” is a piece by Jule Flierl that celebrated its premiere at Dock 11 on 24 April 2025. It is performed by bottom up productions: Chihiro Araki, Felipe Fizkal, and Julek Kreutzer.
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She’s always on the move

22. April 2025, Miriam Taschler

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The series I’M A UTERUS >< PROCREATORS & WARRIORS IN RESISTANCE takes place on three evenings in the CORDILLERA Raum für Körper und Utopien (Space for Bodies and Utopias). I attend the performance ANUNCIA EN EL PEDREGAL by Silvia Ospina on 19 April 2025.
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She Eats Éclairs in Paris

15. April 2025, Johanna Ackva

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Since November 2024, choreographer Mel Brinkmann has been meeting with seven young dancers once a week in Mädchen*zentrum Szenenwechsel. The result is Divas, an expressive dance performance performed from 11 to 13 April 2025 at Uferstudios.
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How can a human also be a rhinoceros? It’s inconceivable.

8. April 2025, Maria Ladopoulos

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Die Nashörner (The Rhinos) is a dance piece by URSina Tossi with integrated artistic audio descriptions. It’s geared towards viewers aged 14 and up and transports a theater text written by Eugène Ionesco in 1959 to the present day. Following its premiere at Theater an der Parkaue on 3 April 2025, there will be additional performances in April and June 2025.
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Cutbacks, Diversity, and Accessibility in the Berlin Cultural Sector – An Interview with Representatives from Diversity Arts Culture

31. March 2025, Miriam Taschler

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Art and culture should be available to everyone. To accomplish this, barriers have to be dismantled and perspectives from groups that have been thus far un(der)represented introduced to the cultural sector. Diversity Arts Culture is driving diversity development in (Berlin) cultural institutions. Their numerous consulting services, workshops, events, and publications target artists as well as institutions and those active in the cultural scene.
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Touch me like…

28. March 2025, Miriam Taschler

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In On my tongue, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen, and Emilie Gregersen debate queer touch, boundaries, and communication. The piece, which premiered in Copenhagen, is showing from 27-29 March at UFER_STUDIOS.
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Testimonials from a Square

24. March 2025, Johanna Ackva

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Wo alle sind (Where everyone is) is a poetic ritual that explores the practice of (de)scribing and, in the process, the public square in front of Galerie Wedding. From 28 February to 28 March 2025, Adam Man will be sitting on a bench in the gallery from 3-4pm sharing his observations with visitors to the exhibit.
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Depths of Our Bodies

17. March 2025, Inky Lee

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Hey Körper?!, choreographed and performed by Sahra Huby for audiences aged eight and up, was presented at FELD Theater für junges Publikum from 13 to 16 March 2025.
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One Step at a Time

10. March 2025, Maia Joseph

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Ich bin da, trotzdem – hörst Du?, with choreography by Katja Münker and concept/direction by Yael Schüler, takes us on the journey of three individuals’ quest to find a connection. The piece premiered on 6 and 7 March 2025 at ACUD Theater.
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I see something you don’t see. But if we’re quiet, you can hear it buzz.

25. February 2025, Johanna Ackva

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Integrated audio descriptions (AD) are currently being “more intensely developed and perceived” as an artistic medium, says blind author Pernille Sonne. “We don’t want this newly opened door to greater inclusivity to close again.”
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You Culture Vultures!

24. February 2025, Maia Joseph

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In Recess by Alex Piasente-Szymański questions how we can continue to produce meaningful art in a time of crisis. The piece premiered on 20 February 2025 at Tanzfabrik and ran until 22 February.
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When the Body Shines

24. February 2025, Inky Lee

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, conceptualised and choreographed by Edward Clug and performed by Staatsballett Berlin, had its premiere on 21 February 2025 at Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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Another Sort of Encounter

11. February 2025, Miriam Taschler

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In Begüm Erciyas’ “Hands Made”, the audience’s hands are in the spotlight, creating a space for encounter and ambiguity. The piece can be experienced and co-created on 8/9 February at Radialsystem.
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No Time, No Time

6. February 2025, Maxie Liebschner

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For All Intents and Purposes… I’m Somebody, SOMEBODY! by the RAYNE&CEREMONY collective celebrated its premiere on January 22, during the Tanztage 2025 festival in the Sophiensæle Kantine.
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Dancing Full on Empty

6. February 2025, Alice Heyward

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Release the Hounds closed the 34th edition of Tanztage at Sophiensæle as its final act on 24 and 25 January. A solo by Adam Russell-Jones, this performance takes on the dance marathon as space for an erupting body in crisis.
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Fragile Security

21. January 2025, Inky Lee

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STUCK, choreographed by the waacking icon Mounia Nassangar, opened on 18 January 2025 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer as part of the Purple Dance Festival.
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What’s the Limit to Your Love?

20. January 2025, Johanna Ackva

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For a third time, the duet, We Are (Nothing) Everything, by Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud was performed in Berlin (16-19 January 2025, DOCK11). Rightly so!, according to the author of this article, who has rarely experienced such a captivated audience.
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Perspectives on Bodies

13. January 2025, Miriam Taschler

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The double bill WET HOT WOMBS – Bathing into other Bodies by Tentacular Figurings and Super Superficial by Kysy Fischer is a memorable kick-off to Tanztage 2025. The festival takes place from 9 to 25 January at the Sophiensæle.
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Self-Portrait with Eggshells

16. December 2024, Alice Heyward

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No More Eggs for Breakfast, made and performed by Dalia Velandia, is about eggs. Her graduation work from the Solo Dance and Authorship (SODA) Master program at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz was presented at Uferstudios on 13 and 14 December 2024.

Romantic Nostalgia

12. December 2024, Inky Lee

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Four New Works by Lucinda Childs Dance Company, which had its world premiere in August 2024 at International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Hamburg, was restaged on 7 and 8 December 2024 at the Berliner Festspiele.