Today | 18:00
Caroline Creutzburg Woman with Stones
Woman with Stones broadens the concept of drag with an entire pool of transformation fantasies.
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Today | 18:00
Caroline Creutzburg Woman with Stones
Woman with Stones broadens the concept of drag with an entire pool of transformation fantasies.
Today | 20:00
Last Yearz Interesting Negro i ride in colour and soft focus, no longer anywhere
A choreographic meditation on osmosis and internalisation and the feeling of being possessed by other people's fantasies.
Today | 22:00
Under the Sea
A choreographic labyrinth: ONON looks at the things and digital systems that organize our everyday lives.
In a one-hour introduction we approach the production ONON.
A guided tour about the eventful history of the Sophiensæle from its construction in 1904/05 to the present day.
Our musical Christmas treat celebrates another season!
Lois Alexander uses water and its transformational qualities as points of departure to reflect on her position as a woman belonging to a minority.
Sasha Amaya brings baroque dances into the present and investigates their similarities with contemporary dance // Tricks for Gold (T4$) is a cynical fairy tale about the commodification of the female body in times of late capitalism.
Departing from the experiences and struggles around the Dance for Millions of Reasons campaign, ZTB opens an interactive space in which strategies of protest, resistance and dissent will be tested.
Caner Teker creates new queer spaces by appropriating techniques of Turkish oil wrestling (Yağlı Güreş).
„Juck" is Swedish and means thrust. Anarchic, joyful, riotous and explosive, six performers in school uniforms enter the stage and claim their own conditions for "femininity".
This year Tanztage Berlin welcome the interdisciplinary art festival Gender Bender from Bangalore in South India as their guest and present a performance: An Evening of Lavani.
Two performers disrupt the dualism of dominance and submission, confronting their viewers with intimacy and their own responsibility as an audience.
With dance, language and sound, Aftermath tells of states of exception and their effects on the body.
By combining contemporary dance with ritual chanting, reggaeton and perreo, Maque Pereyra creates a decolonial dance practice that shatters conventional notions of sexuality and spirituality.
In an intimate exploration, Areli Moran examines the significance of hair as a repository of social norms, identity and desire.
The drag collective House of Living Colors focuses on the climate crisis, showing that a diversity of identities is as essential for the survival of our society as is biodiversity for nature.
With an uplifting show, House of Living Colors presents Spice to celebrate the perseverance and resilience of QTBIPoC (queer + trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color).
Telephone conversations with philosophers of the 20th century.
Festival
Freischwimmer*innen. The Future Is F*e*m*a*l*e*
NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 08
The relaunched newcomer platform Freischwimmen meets the sequel to The Future is F*e*m*a*l*e*: Alongside international feminist guest performances the Freischwimmer*innen offer ten days packed with queerfeminism – cross-generational and suitable for everyday use! With performances, dance and lectures the festival presents queerfeminist strategies for a non-binary and intersectionally feminist future.
Festival
Tanztage Berlin 2020
JANUARY 08 – 18
Every year in January, Tanztage Berlin provide a platform for the city's emerging choreographers. In the 29th edition, queer-feminist and postcolonial perspectives intertwine to form a complex reflection on today.
Accessibility
Information and offers for people with sensory and physical impairments
Feedback talks after the performance with wine and savory snacks
Regular guided tours through Sophiensæle
Mediation
Introductions, workshops, seminars and offers for schools
Lectures
Lectures, discussions, readings, panels, etc.
Dance
2014 August 25 26 | 18.00 - 19.15
Festsaal
Suitable for Non-German Speakers
It’s a romance, a romantic comedy, an action movie, a cover version …
The Swiss choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis incorporates performance, dance and visual arts in her work. Her main interest lies in the codes that govern gestures, both in everyday life and on stage.
In the monochrome interior of a gym strewn with blue mats and balls, ten performers rehearse the production of a video trailer. Slowly their ‘real life’ begins to blur with the performance, as surreal athletic training turns into frantic trance-like dancing, and personal confessions transform into pop songs.
How can one tell a story through moving images and the bodies that comprise them? Why stage privacy for an audience? Are we watching its construction, its failure or simply its trailer? Using film stills as research material, mats as projection surfaces for video close-ups and balls as props, the performance explores contemporary ideas of identity in terms of image-making, framing and athleticism.
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY Alexandra Bachzetsis PERFORMANCE, CREATION Alexandra Bachzetsis, Emese Csornai, Staiv Gentis, Kristinn Guðmundsson, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou, Michael Helland, Benny Jäger, Emilie Nana, Peter Sattler, Saga Sigurdardottir DRAMATURGY Quinn Latimer MUSIC, SOUND Tobias Koch MUSIC, CONCEPTUAL ADVICE Lies Vanborm LICHT, TECHNICS Tina Bleuler, Patrik Rimann COSTUMES Patrizia Jaeger ASSISTANCE COSTUMES + PRODUCTION Cosima Gadient COMMUNICATION DESIGN Julia Born PHOTOGRAFY, CINEMATOGRAPHY Melanie Hofmann COMPANY MANAGEMENT Anna Geering
Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Basel-Landschaft, Kanton Basel-Stadt, Pro Helvetia - Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Markus Weisskopf Basel, Migros-Kulturprozent, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, GGG Basel, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank Jubiläumsstiftung, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation. Theater version co-produced by Kaserne Basel, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich. In cooperation with Dampfzentrale Bern, ADC Genève, Théâtre Sévelin 36 Lausanne, Reso – dance network Switzerland, Triptic – Kulturaustausch am Oberrhein. In cooperation with SOPHIENSÆLE.
Foto © Melanie Hoffmann