Continue reading “Thoughts on Lockdown No. 2”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.
Tag: HAU Hebbel am Ufer (EN)
Sajan Mani – Tyger von otherspur
Review written by Nine Yamamoto-Masson.*
Continue reading “Sajan Mani – Tyger von otherspur”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
Continue reading “Waves Swarm”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
Continue reading “On Bodies Communing: An Interview with Isabelle Schad”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
Continue reading “Berlin isn’t a German city / Berlin ist keine deutsche Stadt”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
Continue reading “Hello Death”Enis Turan glamorously stages his own death in “Club27”, a co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Ashes to Ashes
Continue reading “Ashes to Ashes”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
Continue reading “The Golden Creature”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Review: Happy Island”In this review Beatrix Joyce is talking to David Pallant about the piece “Happy Island” by La Ribot.
Tanz im August Review: Liebestod
Continue reading “Tanz im August Review: Liebestod”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Interview Series: Claire Vivianne Sobottke”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Review: WO CO”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Review: White Dog”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Review: Hard To Be Soft – A Belfast Prayer”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Interview Series: Gunilla Heilborn”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Review: Piece for Person and Ghettoblaster”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Interview Series: Nicola Gunn”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Interview Series: deufert&plischke”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
Continue reading “Tanz im August Interview Series: Nora Chipaumire”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
Continue reading “Meat Market”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!
Continue reading “Water finds its way!”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
Continue reading “The Strangeness of Species”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
Continue reading “So So Happy. Or: Everything is a Question of Practice”In “Happyology – Tears of Joy” Dragana Bulut provides the audience with (unsolicited) training in self-optimization poses
Moving Thoughts
Continue reading “Moving Thoughts”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
Continue reading “Love as Practice”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
Continue reading “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
Continue reading “Otherworldly Introductions: the Transformative Experience of Ola Maciejewska’s Bombyx Mori”In the frame of Tanz im August Ola Maciejewska recreates Loïe Fuller’s form in sound, light, and sociality.