Volksbühne Berlin (EN) – tanzschreiber

From Limbo. A Letter of Complaint

2. April 2026, Johanna Ackva

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With Goodbye Berlin (premiere on October 2025, showing this season at the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz), the choreographer Constanza Macras seems to be bidding more than a metaphorical goodbye to Berlin.
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Laughing at Ourselves

27. May 2025, Inky Lee

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A Year without Summer, directed and choreographed by Florentina Holzinger, premiered on 21 May 2025 at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, featuring an all cis-female, naked cast—Holzinger’s signature—who display a range of diverse and at times visceral talents.
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A Human Comedy

3. October 2021, Elisa Frasson

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DE
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In “A Divine Comedy” by Florentina Holzinger, which premiered at the Ruhrtrienniale in August and which opens the Volksbühne dance season, Totentanz, orgasms, techno, an obstacle course, bodypainting, the dissection of a rat, a body set on fire, humour, a flying piano, and much more cohabit in a powerful theatrical piece.

Berlin’s palaces and the Panama of Brandenburg

3. April 2019, Astrid Kaminski

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EN

After her South-African township piece “Chatsworth” and her choreography for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar winning “The Favourite”, with “Der Palast” Constanza Macras will stage her first premiere at Volksbühne under the interim director Klaus Dörr. But her engagement with the much debated theatre started years ago… Astrid Kaminski asks the famous Berlin-based, Buenos Aires-born choreographer about her process in becoming an urban choreographer.