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.
Students of the Masters in Dance at the Freie Universität Berlin are writing about individual productions being performed during the festival. The texts will grapple with the dances, deal with the act of watching and writing, and explore the processes of perception and memory. The challenge for the writer is to capture the choreographies and their movements in words, and to decipher them for festival audiences.
On the last day of the festival, the authors of the texts and choreographers of the dances come together to discuss their mutual watching and reading experiences.
The project is part of a seminar on writing about dance, “TanzTexte” by Jun. Prof. Dr. Isa Wortelkamp.
