10 Dance Pieces to See at the Tanz im August Festival 2022
After two years of a compromised festival due to pandemic restrictions, this Tanz im August 2022 festival edition finally brings all the international dance artists back to Berlin to celebrate the art of contemporary dance. We made a list of the pieces we really look forward to watching.
When most theaters and opera houses are on their 6 weeks summer break it is always a pleasure to have Tanz im August back in town to bring so many international talents and combine them with the Berlin dance scene in their program. The festival takes place at the most important dance stages in town and we are really looking forward to seeing the Haus der Berliner Festspiele again after their renovation. This year’s edition not only has Adam Lindner and Jefta van Dinther as Berlin-based crowd pleasers but also some really interesting pieces from all over the world we listed below in our highlights.
What I was happy to read is the fact that the festival is giving a big focus to artists with an indigenous background in this year’s edition. It is time to finally hear the voices of indigenous artists on our western stages, not only to get out of our comfort zone on topics regarding colonialism and our violent past and the consequences today. But also because indigenous wisdom can teach us to save the planet or at least to try our best on it. Dancing has always been one of the strongest rituals to create a community. I hope this year’s edition will show us how beautiful and powerful this ritual is.
Note: The below-listed pieces all have multiple shows/dates, the list only shows one date each. If you click on the piece you will get the full info and schedule per piece.
Sun, 07.08.2022, 17:00h
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18:30h
The latest work by Australian-based company Marrugeku is a unique interplay of dance, sound, and installation – emotionally charged with sadness, anger, joy, and resistance. With „Jurrungu Ngan-ga” (Yawuru for “straight talk”) the company boldly investigates that which Australia wishes to lock
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Thu, 11.08.2022, 18:00h
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19:00h
When does digital content become a threat? How do new, virtual worlds incite fear, the oldest emotion of mankind, in our bodies? In the music-theatre and dance performance “Urban Creatures”, by German choreographer Sebastian Matthias, visitors encounter odd and unruly
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Thu, 11.08.2022, 20:00h
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21:30h
Canadian choreographer Daina Ashbee’s first group piece began with the exploration of a sensation: the solace everyone feels in the embrace of our dogs, in howling with our canine companions. Between growling, yelps, tears and calls, female and male bodies
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Fri, 12.08.2022, 19:00h
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20:30h
Between people and matter, breath and wind, feelings and electricity, “Mesh” by Finnish choreographer Maija Hirvanen reimagines the human in a more-than-human world. Four dancers are caught in a web of entangled life forms, building on the bodily intersections of
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Sat, 13.08.2022, 19:00h
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20:15h
The twentieth-century revolutionary and avant-garde filmmaker Luis Buñuel has always been a great inspiration for Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau. “SONOMA” pays tribute to the iconic surrealist with the reimagination of a dreamlike place somewhere between sleep and fiction, between the
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Tue, 16.08.2022, 17:00h
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21:00h
Berlin-based choreographer Jefta van Dinther breaks down our human drive to revive and the yearning to relive in a stripped-down choreography of body and voice. In this durational performance, ten dancers uncover the body’s boundless mental and physical resourcefulness. The
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Wed, 17.08.2022, 18:00h
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19:30h
For the third and final year in the ongoing project URBAN FEMINISM, the ten young Berlin-based urban dance-makers selected by Tanz im August present three explosive collaborations at HAU3. Following a series of intensive workshops and mentored rehearsals focusing on
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Sun, 21.08.2022, 17:00h
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18:00h
In her solo “AMAZONIA 2040” Colombian and Berlin-based choreographer Martha Hincapié Charry reflects on the present, past and future of the Amazon rainforest. Interweaving her Quimbaya indigenous perspective in an expansive performance and video installation, an intimate, multi-layered ritual emerges.
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Fri, 26.08.2022, 19:00h
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20:00h
In “LOYALTY”, Los Angeles and Berlin-based choreographer Adam Linder returns to ballet with a fresh take on its traditional vocabulary. Linder dives into the signature aspects of the genre – corps-de-ballet formations, theatrical imagery and partnering – reworking them with
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Sat, 27.08.2022, 19:00h
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20:00h
High jumps, headspins, somersaults, fast kicks and whirling turns: with his 10-person crew Grupo de Rua, Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão combines breaking, hip hop and contemporary dance. With a keen eye for composition, Beltrão addresses the turbulent political status of
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