Interview: Antonia Baehr on “Röhrentier”
For Tanznacht, Antonia Baehr brings back “Röhrentier”, a work of sound, structure, and spiders, created with and for composers-performers Johnny Chang, Neo Hülcker, and Lucie Vítková.
Tanznacht Opens with Memory Loss, Marionettes, and Vanishing Acts
Language: English
Tanznacht opens festival at Uferstudios with six works, including Xavier Le Roy, Julia Rodriguez, and Diego Gil and Igor Dobričić.
Diversity as Divergent Aesthetic Ideals
Language: English
Wayne McGregor brings his virtuosic choreography to Berlin audiences for the first time at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele from August 17th to 19th.
Love as Practice
Language: English
Maija Hirvanen’s ”Art & Love”, a German premiere at HAU3 for Tanz im August, is full of challenge but even more charm.
The Body as a Place of Longing
Thiago Granato presents the final piece of his trilogy “CHOREOVERSATIONS” with “Trrr” at Tanz im August. In “Trrr”, Brazilian dance choreographer Thiago Granato asserts his body as a transcendental archive repository.
Otherworldly Introductions: the Transformative Experience of Ola Maciejewska’s Bombyx Mori
Language: English
In the frame of Tanz im August Ola Maciejewska recreates Loïe Fuller’s form in sound, light, and sociality.
On the Ups and Downs – Tanz im August 2018 Opening
In honor of its 30-year anniversary, the Haus der Berliner Festspiele heads underground from “Trois Grandes Fuges” to post-digital visions for the future. Before this text embarks on the three “Grandes Fuges”, standing ovations, canceled flights, and three outstanding choreographers – Lucinda Childs, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Maguy Marin – I am first drawn […]
Back to the Future
In honor of its 40 year anniversary, Tanzfabrik Berlin invites us to look back at its beginnings – but not without opening the Uferstudios stages to young artists. A review of the program from 17 July 2018.
Costume, Set, and Song Cycles at the Staatsballett Berlin
The Staatsballett Berlin closes its season—and its leadership by Nacho Duato—with a final programme of works from Gentian Doda, Marco Goecke, and Duato
Flashbacks and Fantasies: An hour with Iggy Lord Malmborg
Language: English
Iggy Lord Malmborg’s “Physics & Phantasma” provokes a collective
creation of fiction, fear, and fantasy at the Sophiensaele
Hochzeitssaal.
Act IV: An Expanded View of Manon Lescaut
Language: English
Performing Arts Festival at HAU introduces us to the sights and sounds of Lulu Obermayer; Lulu Obermayer introduces us to Manon.
Plastic Buckets and Silent Speeches: Two Visions from Potsdamer Tanztage
Language: English
This year’s Potsdamer Tanztage brings together another unabashedly diverse programme. While German, Belgian, and Canadian components are heaviest (this year celebrates the fifth anniversary of the frabrik’s residency exchange with Quebec), works range from Yasmin Godder (Israel), Delavallet Bidiefono/Compagnie Baninga (Brazzaville/Paris), and Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi (Budapest), as well as the HZT, who finds its place here […]