30 & 31 March, 2018
Sophiensaele, Berlin
Our 26th instalment premieres an array of award-winning international artists alongside home-grown talent. From the over 550 applications sent to our beloved short format platform, our tried and trusted jury hand picked 8 pieces that moved and inspired us. Our finest selection combines intense encounters with bodies poised between sanity and madness; Nordic mythology interacts with playful stop-motion narrative; grotesquely skilled vocals with movement that defies definition and reshapes hip-hop’s language and a tango junkie fighting a battle that can’t be won.
Featuring
Liliana Barros
Nervure
On the idea of departure and a fake icon’s fall from grace
Choreography // Liliana Barros
Performance // Liliana Barros
Music // Dictaphone
Costumes // Liliana Barros
Premiere // Berlin Premiere
Photo Credit // Lena Meyer
Alexandre Fandard
Some Remain So (Quelques-uns le demeurent)
On the exploration of the radical otherness that lives inside each of us
Choreography // Alexandre Fandard
Performance // Alexandre Fandard
Music // Antonio Vivaldi, Franz Schubert
Costumes // Gwendolyn Boudon
Premiere // German Premiere
Support // CENTQUATRE-PARIS
Photo Credit // Lena Meyer
Gil Kerer & Korina Fraiman
Nice to Beat You
An intense and chaotic encounter between a man and a woman
Choreography // Gil Kerer & Korina Fraiman
Performance // Gil Kerer, Korina Fraiman
Music // Rubel, Screech
Premiere // German Premiere
Support // Batsheva Ensemble dancers create 2017 with the support of Michael Sela Foundation
Photo Credit // Lena Meyer
Jule Flierl
Dissociation Study
A grotesque face dance in which the synchronicity of the singing voice and its physical manifestation become separate entities
Choreography // Jule Flierl
Performance // Jule Flierl
Music // Richard Wagner
Support // HONOLULU Nantes
Photo Credit // Lena Meyer
B.Dance Company
Hugin/Munin
A draw on Norse mythology
Choreography // Po-Cheng Tsai
Performance // Sheng-Ho Chang, Chien-Chih Chang
Music // Greg Haines
Costumes // Po-Cheng Tsai
Premiere // Berlin Premiere
Photo Credit // Lena Meyer
Darragh McLoughlin
THE WHISTLE
The concept of The Whistle is almost genius in its simplicity: follow the command of a whistle, enter the game and become part of the creative process
Choreography // Darragh McLoughlin
Performance // Darragh McLoughlin
Support // KreativKultur, La Central del Circ, Seachange Arts
Photo Credit // Alex Brenner
Ido Gidron
Dualism
Dualism is about the relationship between opposed forces and about breaking relationships, habits and prejudices to then rebuild them
Choreography // Ido Gidron
Performance // Keren Lurie Pardes, Lenny Hassin
Music // Udi Berner, Chopin, Kendrik Lamar
Costumes // Tommer Halperin
Premiere // Europa Premiere
Support // Batsheva Dance Company
Photo Credit // Lena Meyer
Leïla Ka
Pode Ser
In strict obedience to a patricular syntax of hip-hop, Pode Ser talks about limits, aspirations, the body’s emancipation and the disarray of being in a collective world but perpetually alone
Choreography // Leïla Ka
Performance // Leïla Ka
Music // Schubert
Premiere // German Premiere
Support // IADU, Fondation de France, La Villette 2017, Le Théâtre-Scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire, Micadanses, Tersicorea Teatro Off, Espace Keraudy- Plougonvelin, Festival La Becquée, Le Flow Centre Eurorégional des Danses Urbaines, Théâtre Icare de Saint-Nazaire
Photo Credit // Lena Meyer