Tanz im August is back – Reconnecting Nature, the City, and our Bodies

Tanz im August is back – Reconnecting Nature, the City, and our Bodies

How can we still dance in a world where forests burn, oceans boil and societies become hateful instead of peaceful? The recent incident in the US where a young man was fatally stabbed by a teenager at a gas station because he was voguing was a big shock to the queer community worldwide. But it’s not a coincidence that bodies that nonconform to patriarchal power structures get attacked and killed. And especially, bodies that dare to show their power with dance are a threat to the old ideas of how the world should be run. 

When thinking of dancing bodies in today’s world I think of pleasure, but I also think about the power of changing things that were taken for granted for way too long. So maybe we can help the world by dancing? 

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TANZ IM AUGUST: INTERCONNECTING DANCE&ECOLOGY

TANZ IM AUGUST: INTERCONNECTING DANCE&ECOLOGY

Tanz im August calls on people to engage with nature and sustainability. The question of how artists and international festivals in particular respond to the urgency of the climate crisis will be taken into the city by means of an open call: right into the heart of Berlin’s parks. Twenty-two short choreographies by Berlin artists were selected from numerous project proposals on the overall theme of “Dance and Ecology”. On August 19, eight of the choreographies will be presented in the Stadtpark Lichtenberg as part of the Cultural Summer Festival Berlin 2023.

By and with Kévin Bonono, Alvin Collantes & Jun Suzuki, Chōri Collective, Shelley Etkin, Michelle Félix, Melissa Figueiredo & Giuliana Corsi Kolling, Martha Hincapié Charry, Jasmin İhraç, Kdindie & Luisa De Santi, Umi Maisaroh, Patrycja Masłowska, Tatiana Mejía, Hea Min Jung, Anna Natt, Angelo Petracca & Wojtek Blecharz, Ming Poon, Djibril Sall, Diana Alina Serbanescu, Renae Shadler & Collaborators, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Iga Śśćk, Maren Strack, Jury Onur Çimen, Astrid Kaminski, Alina Lauer, Anna Yeboah.

Information about the starting point and requirements can be found at the link from August 1.

Registration is required via eMail at festival@tanzimaugust.de.

Other courses will be held on 12 and 26.8, for more info visit www.tanzimaugust.de

family-friendly event

Tanz im August: Jefta van Dinther – Unearth

Tanz im August: Jefta van Dinther – Unearth

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 audience is summoned into the intensity of repetition and invited to linger in the sweetness of introspection. “Unearth” digs into the body as material, while exposing both social and spiritual constructs of kinship, purpose, and mortality.

Tanz im August: Martha Hincapie Charry – Amazonia 2040

Tanz im August: Martha Hincapie Charry – Amazonia 2040

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. Hincapié Charry invites the audience to follow her on a journey of storytelling, celebration and meditation that raises ecological and geopolitical questions.

Tanz im August: Urban Feminism – Strike a Rock

Tanz im August: Urban Feminism – Strike a Rock

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 lighting design and dance dramaturgy, the female artists merge hip hop, breaking, popping, krump and house among others in a unique evening that marks the grande finale of the program.

Tanz im August: Maija Hirvanen – Mesh

Tanz im August: Maija Hirvanen – Mesh

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 fungal networks and interspecies communication. In connecting multiple layers of being, these mystical and hybrid stage creatures become ever more enmeshed in the question of what it is to be human.

Tanz im August: Adam Linder – Loyalty

Tanz im August: Adam Linder – Loyalty

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 five world-class dancers. Performed in three acts and set to the music of the British avant-garde band Coil, this new approach to ballet interweaves virtuosity, theatricality and abstraction. Linder creates a hybridized physicality that is crude yet finessed, dark yet light and curiously both animal and human.

Tanz im August: La Veronal – Sonoma

Tanz im August: La Veronal – Sonoma

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 human and the extraordinary. An enticing, cinematic world unravels in which the everyday is rendered strange and signs communicate with the most irrational layers of the human mind.

French  With German and English surtitles (not continuously)

Tanz im August: Bruno Beltrão – New Creation

Tanz im August: Bruno Beltrão – New Creation

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 Brazil. In “New Creation” he brings his country’s urgent conflict and violent social contradictions to the stage through an athletic vocabulary of the urban, imbued with explosive expression and freewheeling virtuosity.