In a revealing solo, Canadian choreographer Frédérick Gravel exposes layers of his psyche - revealing his own fears and unleashing the greedy monster within.
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In the piece, which is both music theatre and dance performance, the audience itself becomes part of a living sound installation. Electronic sounds emanate from their own mobile phone loudspeakers, which change depending on the distance to the performers and merge into a single collective body of sound.
34. International Festival Berlin
August 05-27
The international festival Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, is once again showing a full three-week programme with international and local choreographers from different generations. From August 5–27, 2022 a total of 21 productions with around 200 artists from over 25 countries are being shown in 87 performances at HAU Hebbel am Ufer and 6 other venues in Berlin.
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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 5-21 January 2023 - however, the form as well as the exact date will depend on the constant reassessment of the pandemic. 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 Still Lives, things speak without serving their functional origin. Everyday objects move themselves and us as if they were objects and subjects at the same time: beyond any intention and meaning they appear in qualities that you - like a child - perceive only if you assemble obsessively fragments of your environment and forget the world. The installation shows familiar phenomena in different time-compositions as they transcend their human controllability.
CONCEPT, INSTALLATION, PERFORMANCE Naoko Tanaka ARTISTIC COLLABORATION, PERFORMANCE Yoshie Shibahara COLLABORATION REALIZATION OBJECTS Thomas Lehmen, Andreas Harder TECHNICAL SUPPORT, SOUNDDESIGN Felix Grimm COLLABORATION DÈCOR Christopher Platz DRAMATURGICAL COLLABORATION Adam Czirak PRODUCTION, PR Barbara Greiner
A production by Naoko Tanaka in coproduction with PACT Zollverein Essen, Kyoto Experiment and SOPHIENSÆLE. In cooperation with Luxoom Lab Berlin. Funded by the Senate department for culture and Europe and Kunststiftung NRW. Media partner: taz.die tageszeitung
Foto © Henryk Weiffenbach
