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Tanz im August 2021 Talkabout #2

21. August 2021, Evgeny Borisenko

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For the second part of their Tanz im August talkabout, Eli Frasson and Evgeny Borisenko attended the world premiere of Thiago Granato’s “The Sound They Make When No One Listens” at the Sophiensæle on 19 August 2021. After the show they sat together in the Sophiensæle’s brick-walled courtyard to discuss a show that explores the different facets and political connotations of the act of listening. The next day, on 20 August, Eli and Evgeny went to the Lilli-Hennoch-Sportplatz to attend the world premiere of “Breathe” by Milla Koistinen, in which she interacted with two huge brightly-coloured inflatable fabrics and the audience on the football pitch. After the show Eli and Evgeny found a spot near the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof to sit and discuss the show.

Tanz im August 2021 Talkabout #1

11. August 2021, Elisa Frasson

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Tanzschreiber writers Eli Frasson and Evgeny Borisenko decided to go to three Tanz im August 2021 performances together, and then to meet up after each show to talk about what they saw. In this first part of their conversation, Evgeny and Eli discuss “WEG” by Ayelen Parolin / RUDA, the show that opened the festival at HAU1 on 6 August 2021. In the second part of their Tanz im August talkabout, they will discuss Thiago Granato’s world premiere of “The Sound They Make When No One Listens” and Milla Koistinen’s “Breathe”.

Bodies that have fallen out of history

18. June 2021, Andrej Mirčev

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The dance piece “Still Not Still” by Ligia Lewis, which was planned for April 2021 in HAU1, was presented for the time being in film format (in collaboration with film director Moritz Freudenberg) on 11 June and released on Vimeo. The work’s focus is an emotional corporeal mise-en-scène, which relies heavily on humor to express the exclusionary mechanisms of colonial and neo-liberal structures.

Perpetual Motion Machine

29. May 2021, Evgeny Borisenko

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Jasmin İhraç’s most recent show “liú” premiered on 15 March 2021 and was shown on HAU4 digital platform from 26 to 29 May during the Performing Arts Festival Berlin 2021. In her delicate exploration of the cycles and rhythms of nature and human life, İhraç avoids far-fetched claims and declarations and leaves the audience face to face with the miracle of the infinite time-loop. This laid-back and quiet show made me want to log these images and my thoughts, minute by minute.

Thoughts on Lockdown No. 2

30. November 2020, David Pallant

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EN

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

6. November 2020, Right Now

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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

24. August 2020, Jette Büchsenschütz

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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

16. June 2020, Jette Büchsenschütz

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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

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.

Hello Death

7. February 2020, Inky Lee

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EN

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

Ashes to Ashes

17. November 2019, Nicola van Straaten

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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

18. October 2019, Inky Lee

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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

30. August 2019, Beatrix Joyce

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

Tanz im August Review: Liebestod

28. August 2019, David Pallant

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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

26. August 2019, Beatrix Joyce

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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

26. August 2019, David Pallant

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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

19. August 2019, David Pallant

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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

19. August 2019, Beatrix Joyce

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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

16. August 2019, Beatrix Joyce

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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

12. August 2019, Alexandra Hennig

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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

12. August 2019, David Pallant

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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

5. August 2019, Alexandra Hennig

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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

29. July 2019, David Pallant

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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

21. March 2019, David Pallant

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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!

14. December 2018, Christine Matschke

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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

25. November 2018, Sasha Amaya

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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

14. October 2018, Alexandra Hennig

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

Moving Thoughts

31. August 2018, Johanna Withelm

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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

20. August 2018, Sasha Amaya

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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

16. August 2018, Alexandra Hennig

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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

16. August 2018, Sasha Amaya

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