Tanz im August (EN) – tanzschreiber

Releasing Control

2. September 2024, Inky Lee

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In The Voice, Rita Mazza, a Deaf artist, shares intimate stories through their whole body. The piece premiered at Sophiensæle from 28 to 30 August 2024 in the frame of Tanz im August.

Air Castle

27. August 2024, Alice Heyward

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The five-hour DREAM (2022) by Alessandro Sciarroni at St. Elisabeth Kirche (visitors can come and go) in Tanz im August (24–25 August), while relaxing, lacks tension and falls short of the potential of an embodied ‘dream’.
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Insatiability

26. August 2024, Miriam Taschler

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Michelle Moura’s BOCA COVA takes place from 20 – 23 August at the Sophiensæle as part of Tanz im August. We find ourselves in the mouth of a greedy, insatiable system by which we are ultimately chewed up and spit out renewed.

How Much Can One Body Hold?

26. August 2024, David Pallant

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Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna, choreographed by Soa Ratsifandrihana, shows diasporic bodies as bearers of the past and protagonists of the present. The work was performed at HAU2 from 16 to 18 August 2024 as part of Tanz im August.

Grounding Ballet: In Conversation with Adam Linder

26. September 2022, Liza Weber

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Calling from a cab on the way to the airport, the Los Angles-come-Berlin-based choreographer Adam Linder talks to Liza Weber about his new work “Loyalty” and renovating in the ruins of ballet. Shown at the Tanz Im August festival from the 25 to 26 August 2022, “Loyalty” was performed in three acts just like any ballet but proved, on several counts, unlike any ballet.

To Dare to Create

22. August 2022, Parvathi Ramanathan

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“No. 60”, choreographed by Pichet Klunchun, sensually and systematically moves the edges of Thai Khon dance. By unpacking the traditional form and tapping into instincts from the head, heart, and gut, it democratises it and sets it free for new creative impulses. The work was shown at HAU2 as part of Tanz Im August 2022.

Singing Soil to the Sky

15. August 2022, Parvathi Ramanathan

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Shown at Tanz Im August 2022, “Vástádus eana – The answer is land” by Elle Sofe Sara powerfully embellishes on the primacy of community and coexistence with nature through the body, voice, and certainly, through a more sustainable way of being.

Don’t Blink

9. August 2022, Cory Tamler

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Marrugeku’s “Jurrungu Ngan-ga / Straight Talk” played at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele from 5 – 7 August 2022 as part of Tanz im August. Choreographed by Dalisa Pigram with direction and dramaturgy by Rachael Swain, it staged a ‘prison of the mind’ that was a call not to pity people suffering far away, but rather to wake up to the deadly incoherencies we live with here and now.

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”.

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.

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: #PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA

29. August 2019, Beatrix Joyce

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Alex Hennig inquires Beatrix Joyce about her impressions of Nora Chipaumire´s intense three-hour performance “PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA” at Sophiensæle.

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: ten

26. August 2019, Alex Hennig

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In this Tanz im August Review David and Alex talk about the simplicity in the complexity in Deborah Hay’s piece “ten” at Radialsystem.

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, Alex 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, Alex 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.

Collective Future Perspectives?

4. September 2018, Christine Matschke

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During this year’s anniversary edition of Tanz im August there was also space for young choreographers and emerging dance talents. With “Paradise Now (1968-2018)” young Belgian choreographer Michiel Vandevelde does an exemplary job of entrenching the vision of a new, politically ambitious dancer theater for a present day young audience.

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”.

On the Genealogy of Sexism

27. August 2018, Sasha Amaya

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Big Dance Theater opens the diaries of Samuel Pepys at Tanz im August to look into the sexism of the past and the present in their work “17c”

Diversity as Divergent Aesthetic Ideals

22. August 2018, Sasha Amaya

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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

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, Alex 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.

On the Ups and Downs – Tanz im August 2018 Opening

15. August 2018, Alex Hennig

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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 to the basement.