HAU Hebbel am Ufer (EN) – tanzschreiber

Thoughts on Lockdown No. 2

by David Pallant, 30. November 2020

Gob Squad first presented their 12 hour livestream performance “Show Me A Good Time” during the lockdown in June. For the second lockdown, they remade the piece into three parts, and HAU broadcast the first episode on 26 November 2020. I decided to use it as an opportunity to reflect on this latest closure of live performance venues.

Sajan Mani – Tyger von otherspur

by Right Now, 6. November 2020

Review written by Nine Yamamoto-Masson.*

This performance was part of the festival Radical Mutation: On the Ruins of Rising Suns, curated by Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Saskia Köbschall, Tmnit Zere, in collaboration with Wearebornfree! Empowerment Radio, 23.9.–4.10.2020, HAU1+2+4.

Waves Swarm

by Jette Büchsenschütz, 24. August 2020

This year, in lieu of its scheduled stage program, Tanz im August is offering an online selection of talks, films, and sound works, a digital conference, and two works in public spaces. Media and performance art collective LIGNA gives the participants in “Zerstreuung überall! Ein internationales Radioballett (Dissemination Everywhere! An international radio ballet)” an opportunity to practice a dispersed collective with the help of acoustic prompts, while still keeping to themselves.

On Bodies Communing: An Interview with Isabelle Schad

by Jette Büchsenschütz, 16. June 2020

The plan was for Isabelle Schad’s trilogy “Collective Jumps“, “Pieces and Elements” and “Reflection” to be shown for the first time in one stretch at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in June. She talks with Jette Büchsenschütz about contemplation, the collective, and the power emanating from interlocking bodies – and it becomes evident how relevant her pieces are today.

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

by Astrid Kaminski, 7. June 2020

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.

Hello Death

by Inky Lee, 7. February 2020

Enis Turan glamorously stages his own death in “Club27”, a co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

Ashes to Ashes

by Nicola van Straaten, 17. November 2019

As a part of the NO LIMITS Disability & Performing Arts Festival, “Ashed”, performed by Unmute Dance Company at HAU2, takes its inspiration from the petrified figures discovered in the volcanic ash of Pompeii.

The Golden Creature

by Inky Lee, 18. October 2019

In “Melancholía,” a co-production by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Josep Caballero García / Queerpraxis create a sensual world of play where gender and ethnic identities are obscured.

Tanz im August Review: Happy Island

by Beatrix Joyce, 30. August 2019

In this review Beatrix Joyce is talking to David Pallant about the piece “Happy Island” by La Ribot.

Tanz im August Review: Liebestod

by David Pallant, 28. August 2019

The tanzschreiber authors Beatrix Joyce and David Pallant analyze the emotional piece “Liebestod” by deufert&plischke in this chat review.

Tanz im August Interview Series: Claire Vivianne Sobottke

by Beatrix Joyce, 26. August 2019

In her new solo “Velvet”, with music by Tian Rotteveel, Claire Vivianne Sobottke shape shifts from woman into animal. Immersed in a set composed of soil, plants and self-playing drums, she uncovers the primal forces of female sexuality.

Tanz im August Review: WO CO

by David Pallant, 26. August 2019

Alex Hennig and David Pallant talk about the unique relationship to time in Kaori Seki’s piece “WO CO” at HAU2.

Tanz im August Review: White Dog

by David Pallant, 19. August 2019

In their newest chat review the tanzschreiber authors write about the symbolic and political aspects in “White Dog” by Latifa Laâbissi.

Tanz im August Review: Hard To Be Soft – A Belfast Prayer

by Beatrix Joyce, 19. August 2019

In this chat review the tanzschreiber authors David and Beatrix talk about the intense performance “Hard to be Soft” by Oona Doherty.

Tanz im August Interview Series: Gunilla Heilborn

by Beatrix Joyce, 16. August 2019

The wonderful moves the memory more than the ordinary. This sentence, originally the title of the piece “The Wonderful and the Ordinary”, moved choreographer Gunilla Heilborn to create a trilogy on the wonders, and burdens, of memory.

Tanz im August Review: Piece for Person and Ghettoblaster

by Alexandra Hennig, 12. August 2019

In their first review the tanzschreiber authors Beatrix Joyce and Alexandra Hennig chat about Nicola Gunn´s performance. A report about humour, ducks and throwing stones.

Tanz im August Interview Series: Nicola Gunn

by David Pallant, 12. August 2019

A confrontation with a man cruelly throwing stones at a duck was the catalyst for Nicola Gunn’s solo work “Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster”. That encounter — and the misunderstandings inherent in it — inspired a piece in which communication, and miscommunication, take centre stage.

Tanz im August Interview Series: deufert&plischke

by Alexandra Hennig, 5. August 2019

I meet deufert&plischke in their shared apartment. Not by chance is there a framed tarantula on the wall: Arachne, mythological figure of weaving and heroine of story-telling. In “Liebestod” love stories are woven into music and dance.

Tanz im August Interview Series: Nora Chipaumire

by David Pallant, 29. July 2019

Nora Chipaumire returns to Tanz im August with her latest work, “#PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA”. Provocative, joyful, and challenging, this three-part live performance album is demanding for performers and audience alike.

Meat Market

by David Pallant, 21. March 2019

Alexandra Bachzetsis’s “Escape Act” examines the role the body plays within the artifice of modern day visual media, recreating the most toxic of late-night YouTube binges.

Water finds its way!

by Christine Matschke, 14. December 2018

With “Water Will (in Melody)”, Ligia Lewis presents a different kind of pre-Christmas fairytale in HAU2. Her grim, grotesque movement theater takes the audience on a ride to a dystopian future world where women reside as freaky artifacts of a bygone era. We don’t really want that.

The Strangeness of Species

by Sasha Amaya, 25. November 2018

Kat Válastur’s new work brings together sculpture, performance, and video to give perspective on our human experience.

So So Happy. Or: Everything is a Question of Practice

by Alexandra Hennig, 14. October 2018

In “Happyology – Tears of Joy” Dragana Bulut provides the audience with (unsolicited) training in self-optimization poses

Moving Thoughts

by Johanna Withelm, 31. August 2018

Within the framework of Tanz im August, French choreographer Noé Soulier attempts to explore the relationship between movement and thought with “The Waves” while Spanish choreographer duo Mal Pelo creates simultaneously delicate and powerful body poetry with “The Fifth Winter”.

Love as Practice

by Sasha Amaya, 20. August 2018

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

by Alexandra Hennig, 16. August 2018

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

by Sasha Amaya, 16. August 2018

In the frame of Tanz im August Ola Maciejewska recreates Loïe Fuller’s form in sound, light, and sociality.