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.
There’s no business like show business. Melanie Jame Wolf and Teresa Vittucci explore the problems and pleasures of the question: What does it take to make a show great? Both known for their intense solo work and powerful stage presence, the two artists take a close look at popular entertainment, theater and the politics of spectacle, exploring the long-held trope of the double act: its tender intimacies, its power dynamics, but also the ways in which it is triangulated by its audience and by the stage space itself.
The performance invites us to critically and humorously question the tension between seeing and being seen, examining together the poetics and politics of the show as a complex cultural phenomenon.
If any questions remain from the following information, please feel free to contact Hannah Aldinger at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return atticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).
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If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.
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Melanie Jame Wolf is a Berlin-based visual artist and choreographer. She works solo and with friends, making interdisciplinary works about power, flows of capital and the pervasive phenomenon of “show business”. She explores these economies and entanglements in works for gallery, theater and screen spaces. She approaches installation and the moving image as an extended choreographic practice, using humor as a strategy for critical possibility and working with language in subliminal and surprising ways. Her first solo performance, Mira Fuchs, premiered at the 2015 Tanztage Berlin at Sophiensæle. Her recent works for the stage include TONIGHT (Sophiensæle, 2019) and SHOW BUSINESS (2021). Her recent solo exhibitions include Two Years Elapse Between the Third and Fourth Act at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and The Creep at feldfünf, Berlin. savage-amusement.com
TERESA VITTUCI is a Vienna-born artist currently based in Zurich. Her practice is rooted in contemporary dance performance and explores feminist and queer perspectives on pop culture, history and religion. Bad jokes are always part of the process. She works as a solo artist and also collaborates with other artists such as Colin Self, Annina Machaz, Simone Aughterlony, Nils A. Lange, MJ Wolf, Michael Turinsky and Claire V. Sobottke. In 2019, Teresa received the Swiss Dance Award for the first part of her trilogy HATE, ME TENDER. From 2019-2022, she was a Young Associate Artist at Tanzhaus Zürich. She is currently busy touring and working on the completion of her trilogy, as well as working on other projects and guest lecturing at the art academies in Zurich and Bern. teresavittucci.com
CONCEPT, CREATIVE DIRECTION Melanie Jame Wolf TEXT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Melanie Jame Wolf, Teresa Vittucci COSTUME & STYLING Evan Loxton SET DESIGN Camille Lacadee SOUND DESIGN Mars Dietz LIGHT DESIGN Thais Nepomuceno ASSISTANT Evan Loxton DRAMATURGICAL SUPPORT Sharon Smith PRODUCTION Magda Garlinska TECHNICAL DIRECTION Cathy Walsh
A production by Melanie Jame Wolf in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE and Theater Neumarkt. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Media partner: taz.
