Hey, why do you look so tired? “Urgency culture” expects us to be connected and responsive constantly. There is little to no time left to imagine the world otherwise. Tanztage Berlin – a yearly festival highlighting the work of the city’s emerging dance makers – is back to diagnose the present and predict the future. Its 32nd edition investigates our daily overstimulation and chronic fatigue by reflecting on how we move to the rhythm of today’s high-speed, social media-driven reality and its challenges.
Instead of being stuck inside the old stories of progress and growth that depend on extracting profit from the earth and the body, the work presented in the festival aims to flip the script. It dances to slow down, restore, reclaim, transform or envision a new self, outside the paradigm of self-optimization. From collective dream meditations through protest dances to solo musicals dealing with content overload, it invites us to observe the exchange between bodies, replenish depleted resources and rejuvenate through dancing.
The program presents ten performances, one of them is Slim Soledad’s “VIBRATIONS, TRANSLATIONS”
VIBRATIONS, TRANSLATIONS – an encounter of music, performance and dance – looks into the ritualistic processes of translation between sound vibrations and body motions. The performance investigates music as a way of solving contentions between the ‘human’ and the ‘spiritual’: the interconnectedness between the material and the immaterial experience of the world. Combining the selection of inanimate objects and pivotal elements of nature such as rocks and fluids, Slim Soledad and her guests explore how the vibrations can be decoded and encoded in materiality activated by movement. She looks for new connections within the inhabited bodies and envisions a new self, born out of multiple ritualized encounters.
SLINA DA SOLEDADE AKA SLIM SOLEDAD is a multi-artist, born in Guarulhos – São Paulo/BR, currently living in Berlin. Her body moves through the different sounds inter-passing rhythms like Baile Funk, Vogue and contemporary dances. These connections develop nuances in her body’s creative process as a performer and in her musical production. Co-founder the queer collective Chernobyl that caters to a BiPOC and LGBTQIA+ audience in Brazil.
ALADA is a Brazilian dj & music producer. Part of his evolution and purpose, as an artist and character, brings a new vision for those who are understood as “music”, “art” and “genre”. Always with a paradigmatic break approach, his work is high in emotion and sexuality.
BLACK PEARL DE ALMEIDA LIMA is a Brazilian multidisciplinary, Afro-Latinx, Trans Artist based in Berlin. She graduated from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, has performed professionally in different art institutions and renowned professionals dance companies in Germany. Joined Ballroom Germany in 2020 and is currently a member of the Iconic House of Saint Laurent Europe.
CONCEPT, SOUND, DIRECTION, PERFORMANCE Slim Soledad SOUND, PERFORMANCE Alada CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Black Pearl SET DESIGN, LIGHT DESIGN Eric Oliveira CO-DIRECTION, LIGHT DESIGN, PRODUCTION Lolla Venzon ASSISTANCE DIRECTION, PRODUCTION, SET DESIGN Jô Osbórnia DRAMATURGICAL SUPPORT Jette Büchsenschütz
Tickets:10–15€