Tanztage Berlin 2008

03-16 January 2008

Under new artistic direction, TANZTAGE BERLIN is entering its 17th round.

This year the spectrum of artists and performances is again broad and - as a mirror of the Berlin dance scene - colorful and diverse. This scene is growing and professionalizing and more and more young dancers and choreographers are coming to the city to work here in the various professional independent companies or as freelance artists who create their own working context through national and international networks and co-producers. As a result, TANZTAGE BERLIN is also becoming increasingly international. For 2008, the team around the new artistic director Peter Pleyer has selected 26 choreographers from 11 countries to show to the Berlin audience and its New Year's guests. On show are graduates and students from Berlin's various training institutes, members of established Berlin ensembles as well as new Berliners.

The festival will be opened by Susanne Martin (with her solo "Rosi tanzt Rosi"), the Russian-born Ernst Busch student Anna Melnikova (with "THOMAS UND CLAIRE nach Tristan und Isolde") and the HÄST DUO: the Swedes Sara Mathiasson and Sofia Restorp, who caused a sensation last year at the "Young Choreographers". This year's non-Berlin guests are Antje Schur and Régine Westenhoeffer from Strasbourg with their ravishing dance evening "La Doublure". Further highlights of the festival are the "Young Choreographers" as well as works by the Meg Stuart-experienced dancer Frank Willens and the visual artist Gregory Stauffert, who could already be experienced at "Freischwimmer 2006" as a precise and charismatic performer.

A program with discussions and concerts rounds off the 14 days of the festival. Among the 17 pieces are 9 world premieres and one European premiere.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION Peter Pleyer PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Franziska Köhler TECHNICAL DIRECTION Benjamin Schälike PRODUCTION OFFICE Marion Anders

An edition of TANZTAGE BERLIN GbR in cooperation with Sophiensaele and Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V. Supported by the Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs. With the kind support of Eliashof, HALLE TanzBühne, LaMove, Embassy of Venezuela in Berlin, ZDF theaterkanal, rbb radioeins and fabrik Potsdam as part of Tanzplan Potsdam "Artists in Residence".