The programme 23/24 of Sophiensæle starts on 07.12.2023
On 7.12.2023, after urgently needed renovation work, the 2023/2024 season will begin at the Sophiensaele under the new artistic direction of Andrea Niederbuchner and Jens Hillje. We will publish the programme for the opening and the season on 26.10.2023, which is also the day when the pre-sale begins.
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TO ALL EMERGING DANCE ARTISTS BASED IN BERLIN
Every new year, the Tanztage Berlin is not only the city's very first festival, it has also established itself nationally and internationally as an important platform for emerging dance artists since its founding in 1996. The next edition of Tanztage Berlin will once again take place under the artistic direction of Mateusz Szymanówka. The festival is currently planned for 5-20 January 2024. The festival offers emerging dance artists based in Berlin a framework for their new productions and revivals. The programme of the last two editions can be found at: https://tanztage-berlin.sophiensaele.com.
In this exchange format, the Freischwimmen-groups die apokalyptischen tänzer*innen (Stuttgart), Rotterdam Presenta (Düsseldorf ans Brussels) and Gruppe CIS (Stuttgart) present their current projects for discussion.
The performance collective die apokalyptischen tänzer*innen approaches abstract contexts from an intersectional-feminist perspective, making them visible and experienceable on stage. Their new project Aria - die Mehrjungsfrau appropriates right-wing media strategies that operate with fears around the loss of masculinity, subjecting them to a ceremony that's both slimy and purifying and thus transforms them into feminism.
The core team of Rotterdam Presenta brings together artists from various fields and offers a platform that enables cross-disciplinary theatre discourse. For accident exercises, they set up a laboratory for accident training in the archives of an insurance company, in which they test the moment of a crash: What do we see when we freeze time at the moment of collision?
Since 2013, Gruppe CIS is a group of artists that adresses the effects of emotionally charged media settings on body realities and social scenarios. Their work operates at the interfaces of film, theatre and performance. The video installation Dark Daily Soap is a film without actors that inspires to question one’s own normative perception of reality and viewing habits, and to create space for the peculiar.
with die apokalyptischen tänzer*innen, Gruppe CIS, Rotterdam Presenta MODERATION Joy Kristin Kalu, Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen
Freischwimmen is the production platform for performance and theatre, realised and funded by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, Schwankhalle Bremen, SOPHIENSÆLE and Theater Rampe Stuttgart, under the management of SOPHIENSÆLE GmbH. The festival Freischwimmer*innen. The Future is F*e*m*a*l*e* is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and by the Capital Cultural Fund. Media partners: Ask Helmut, ExBerliner, Flux FM, Missy Magazine, taz. die tageszeitung, Zitty.
