Today | 18:00
TANZSCOUT-Einführung zu ONON
In a one-hour introduction we approach the production ONON.
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Today | 18:00
TANZSCOUT-Einführung zu ONON
In a one-hour introduction we approach the production ONON.
Today | 19:30
Public in Private / Clément Layes ONON
A choreographic labyrinth: ONON looks at the things and digital systems that organize our everyday lives.
Today | 21:00
Laurie Young + Justine A. Chambers One hundred more
Dance as political tool.
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
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.
Performance/Tanz
2019 December 07 08 | 20.00
Festsaal
language no problem
Attention
Combi-Tickets: WOMAN WITH STONES + I RIDE IN COLOUR...
DECEMBER 07 | 18.00 + 20.00 PM
DECEMBER 08 | 18.00 + 20.00 PM
The show on DECEMBER 08 will be filmed for documentation-, press- and marketing-related purposes. During video, image and sound recordings, usually only the events on stage are documented. If the audience is present on the recordings in individual cases, you agree that these recordings may be used for documentation purposes and published in all media without restriction and free of charge by entering the room. In case you do not agree with that, please tell our staff prior to the show.
i ride in colour and soft focus, no longer anywhere is a choreographic meditation on osmosis, internalisation and the feeling of being possessed by other people's fantasies: In loops of movements, words and sounds, trance-like dance sequences unfold to electronic music while the performer's body articulates as an ambivalent archive of all the things she has ever seen, heard, felt, touched or inherited.
Last Yearz Interesting Negro is the independent performance project of Jamila Johnson-Small working with dance, video, sculpture, text and electronic music, staging projects with a range of collaborators including Alexandrina Hemsley, Phoebe Collings-James and Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome.
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Last Yearz Interesting Negro / Jamila Johnson-Small MUSIC Young Nettle, Josh Anio Grigg, Jamila Johnson-Small, Junior XL, Nkisi, Shelley Parker LIGHT DESIGN Jackie Shemesh SOUND DESIGN Josh Anio Grigg SCULPTURES Joey Addison VIDEO Jamila Johnson-Small, David Panos
A production by Jamila Johnson-Small in co-production with Fierce Festival, The Marlborough Pub and Theatre, in cooperation with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Arts Council England Grants for the Arts. The festival Freischwimmer*innen. The Future is F*e*m*a*l*e* is supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa / Spartenoffene Förderung für stadtrelevante Festivals and by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Media partners: Ask Helmut, ExBerliner, Flux FM, Missy Magazine, taz. die tageszeitung, Zitty.