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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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Safe With You

24. July 2024, Inky Lee

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A Night’s Game, choreographed and performed by Alleyne Dance, a British company founded by twin sisters Kristina and Sadé Alleyne, was presented on 23 and 24 July 2024 at DOCK 11, as a part of the b12 festival.

Unexpected Encounters

23. April 2024, Miriam Taschler

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The double bill A/way Home / Saudade de ti premieres on 21 April 2024 at DOCK 11. Two duets by Carlos Aller in collaboration with Cecilia Bartolino explore origins and social interaction.

Boy, say something!

13. January 2024, Johanna Ackva

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In Solo for Boy, which premiered at Dock11 on 11.1.2024, choreographer Sasha Amaya in dialogue with dancer Félix Deepen, works her way through Western representations of male beauty in art, fashion and pop culture.
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The Body-Archive and War

21. December 2023, Miriam Taschler

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Every Minute Motherland by the Maciej Kuźmiński Company plays on December 19 and 20, 2023 in DOCK 11 and tells of bodies as witnesses of war, trauma and normality.
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Only Guests on Earth

4. December 2023, Johanna Ackva

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The interdisciplinary evening Terrestrial Transit asks how we can embrace the earthly and finite transition of being as a way of life. With five performances at DOCK11 until December 9, 2023, the company Cranky Bodies concludes a nomadic project that began in Berlin and led via Brandenburg and the border town of Szczecin to the Baltic Sea.
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When the Machine Learns to Dance: From Data to Movement

6. May 2023, Maria Ladopoulos

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In “K L O F. cyberographies of folk,” choreographer Irina Demina uses artificial intelligence to develop a new kind of folk dance: an attempt to reflect contemporary digitalized everyday life. The remount runs at DOCK 11 until 7 May 2023.

Resist. Resist. Resist.

29. April 2023, Parvathi Ramanathan

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The trio “Weaver” choreographed by Anne-Mareike Hess, attempts different weaves of connections of formations for female togetherness. The performance is shown at DOCK 11 from 27 to 30 April 2023.

Flooding in Darkness

1. April 2023, Maria Ladopoulos

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In “HIGH TIDE,” choreographer and performer Pauline Payen addresses the haunting power of grief. The 60-minute dance performance can be seen until 2 April 2023 in DOCK 11.

The Colourful World of Lightness

6. March 2023, Inky Lee

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“LUFT” is a dance performance for the audience from age three and up, created in collaboration between Nir de Volff and Theater o.N. It premiered at DOCK 11 on 2 March 2023. The theatre bustles with the energy of excited children on the Sunday afternoon of 5 March, when Inky attends the last show.

Putting in the Time

8. February 2023, Cory Tamler

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Makisig Akin’s “Asian/LOVE”, premiering at DOCK 11 on 3 and 4 February 2023, is a gift—if one you may have to work for.

Some Uncertainty in the Relationship

11. December 2022, Richard Pettifer

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A certain ‘sliding doors’ approach to interpersonal relationships and the realities they create marks Sita Ostheimer Company’s premiere “The Inevitable and You”, playing at DOCK 11 from 8 to 11 December 2022.

An Odyssey Into the In-Between

16. November 2022, Micha Tsouloukidse

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“between,” the choreographic debut of Jules Petru Fricker (LEGZ) which ran from 11-13 November 2022 at DOCK 11, navigates with remarkable grace the spaces between artistic disciplines, queer performance practices, and narrations of the self—and births magical, touching moments in the process.

Just Another Voice in Berlin: Humble Grass vs. Noisy Landscapes

27. May 2022, Parvathi Ramanathan

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The lush green grass of Berlin’s Körnerpark gives their two bits on the performance “Embodying Landscapes” that took place at the park as part of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin on 25 May 2022.

Scrolling unto Freedom

10. April 2022, Parvathi Ramanathan

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Team Volume & guests present a re-mix of dreams about freedom and love in “Degrees of Freedom”, which premiered at DOCK 11 from 7 to 10 April 2022.

ELEGY TO A HEAP OF CLOTHES HE WAS

19. February 2022, Parvathi Ramanathan

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As well as being a physical exploration and an excavation of the self, “Euphoria” presents Hoyoung Im’s sharp work as a video artist and embodied composer of sound. The performance premiered at DOCK 11 from 17 to 20 February, 2022.

Digitizing the Fleetingness of the Moment

2. December 2021, Jenny Mahla

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On 26 November 2021, Irina Demina streamed her performance “Perpetual Myth” from the basement of DOCK 11 as a real-time event in digital space during which she nimble-footedly took us into the complex and fascinating world of motion capture.

Cosmic Solidarity and Radical Softness

23. November 2021, Evgeny Borisenko

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T.E.N.T. – A Cosmic Drift Mega Mini Festival took place at DOCK 11 from 11 to 14 November 2021. Of the ‘four evenings of evolving stories that share space and collide on a cosmic drift’, I attended two. I was rewarded with two beautiful and dazzling shows and a performance lottery in which I won a cosy and thought-provoking nap in a lace-made tent. T.E.N.T. Festival did not send me to a supernova or take me on an intergalactic trip (the bold promises made in the festival description), but instead made me reflect on the politics of care and softness, and on the necessity of supporting each other in our precarious and uncertain times.

A Dance, a Prayer

6. October 2021, Elisa Frasson

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EN

“New Rear” by Mor Demer premiered on 30^th September at DOCK 11 after many cancellations during 2021 due to the pandemic. Demer, an artist in residence at DOCK ART, creates a sensuous movement and aesthetic landscape that offers space to contemplate.

As if Death Could Shine Like Stardust

28. August 2021, Elisa Frasson

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How can death be imagined? The performance “TodAncestor — dust till down” is a solo dance performance by choreographer Yuko Kaseki and collaborators based on the combination of media, including video projections and live sound recording, with Butoh dance. Containing elements of ritual, it explores diverse aspects of death, such as fear and poetry. This live performance installation is showing at DOCK11 until Sunday 29 August 2021.

Dramaturgies of Entanglement

27. August 2021, Evgeny Borisenko

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Perth-born and Berlin-based choreographer Emily Ranford premiered her most recent work “Forcefields iii” at DOCK11, 19 to 22 August 2021. This skilfully choreographed piece concludes the “Forcefields” trilogy, that explores, as Ranford describes in her programme notes, ‘a network of interdependencies endlessly morphing and curling on itself into previously unseen shapes.’ I searched for the missing link between the signifier and the signified in this piece, which, although beautifully performed, lacked dramaturgical deftness and emotional power towards the end.

Hearing Your Skin: soundance festival is Back in Town!

20. June 2021, Elisa Frasson

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From 11 to 27 June soundance festival Berlin is submerging our senses with an interlacing of digitally presented dance and music works, physically experienced video installations, fully breathed open air performances, as well as a programme of talks and lectures. Led by artistic director Jenny Haack at DOCK 11, the Zionskirche Church, and the garden of EDEN Studios, the 2021 festival edition presents 66 artists in 16 pieces and six dance film videos. The latter can be enjoyed both as a walk-in screening at DOCK 11 and as online streams. With this attractive combination of formats, dance and music works are (slowly) coming back as a physical part of the city’s texture to celebrate the beginning of the Berlin summer!

Filming Utopian Body

3. May 2021, Evgeny Borisenko

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“Vogel | 4 Solos” is a sequence of four solos, directed and choreographed by Christine Bonansea, and filmed at DOCK 11. Led by a powerful blend of stark lighting design and raucous soundscapes, this work aims to embody Michel Foucault’s notion of the utopian body — a daunting task for a string of four separate filmed solos that had been initially devised as simultaneous performances amongst which spectators could carve their own paths. Bonansea faces this challenge with a blast of power and creates a thought-provoking study on the limits of emotional perception.

The Expansion of Joy — An Interview with Anna Nowicka

18. December 2020, Annette van Zwoll

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EN

‘Dear Anna, I hope you are well! […] Due to this second lockdown, we cannot review any performances in the theatres anymore. As an alternative, I would like to interview you on the topic of ‘bodily joy’. It comes from my realisation that, due to the distance, the lack of spontaneity, and the absence of live get-togethers, I find it hard to experience joy in my body myself. And it’s a loss. Therefore it would be great to talk to you about how to keep finding joy in the body in these awkward times. […]. Best, Annette’

Looking Back

18. October 2020, David Pallant

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In “Retrospectrum – 5 solos for 5 decades”, which premiered at DOCK 11 on 15 October, choreographer Tomi Paasonen takes us on a deeply personal journey through his life, and his body of work thus far.

Berlin isn’t a German city / Berlin ist keine deutsche Stadt

7. June 2020, Astrid Kaminski

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No shows, no training, no touch, no perspectives: Covid-19-measures hit the dance scene heavily. Artists and institutions are longing for solidarity – beyond their own needs.

Another Kind of Kinesthetic Empathy Is Transmitted on Screen

24. April 2020, Katja Vaghi

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In the times of corona, when live dance events are (still) not possible, the digital format remains. You can love it or leave it, and not everything is suitable for filming. However, there are dance films, films explicitly choreographed for the camera and the screen: available for viewing until 6 May in POOL 20 – Spring Edition of the Internationales TanzFilmFestival Berlin at DOCK 11 online.

Distance Dance

8. April 2020, Jette Büchsenschütz

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The wide offer of online dance classes demonstrates how we can all stay connected to one another despite social distancing while dancing alone. On the complex interplay between closeness and distance in the time of Corona.

Don’t Wait

24. February 2020, Inky Lee

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Out of the four days of the T.E.N.T. PALACE MINI-MEGA FESTIVAL (DOCK 11, 20 – 23 February, 2020) Inky Lee attends two evenings and relates on the ways T.E.N.T. ‘host dreams, desires, and basic necessities.’

A Tribute to Techno

24. April 2019, Beatrix Joyce

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“Dad & Son #2 (Ribbon Dance)”, by Frédéric Gies is a dance for two male bodies, performed at DOCK 11 by Samuel Draper and Frédéric Gies, to techno producer Fiedel’s relentless beats.

The Escape Artists

7. April 2019, David Pallant

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“Tropical Escape” sees Csaba Molnár and Márcio K. Canabarro explore the politics of utopia, and the power of silliness.