Tanz im August – International Festival Berlin

German premiere | 11.8. | Sony Center

New York choreographer Elizabeth Streb dances with danger and pushes the body to its limits: interacting with spectacular machines, her dancers are rocketed into the air and plunge back down to the ground, they play with gravity and human fears, all of which they seek to overcome.

17.–19.8. | Haus der Berliner Festspiele

What does it mean to write the story of your own life? For 25 years Wayne McGregor has created choreographies that ask questions about life through the experience of the body. Now the well-known British choreographer turns to the body as archive in order to create a series of choreographic portraits.

German premiere | 31.8.+1.9. | HAU1

Two people wait for another winter to pass. They roam around the emptied stage, trapped in a space between deep silence and the voices of their memories, and distract themselves. In “The Fifth Winter” the duo Mal Pelo reflects on the passing of time and the boundaries of our own terrain.

25.+26.8. | Haus der Berliner Festspiele

A grid of dots shatters into a flurry of snow; a wave suddenly rises up from the floor: in “Pixel” eleven dancers move in a digital cosmos. Their bodies control the projections, but they are also part of the illusion. Mourad Merzouki always transitions between various disciplines.

German premiere | 18.+19.8. | HAU1

In Robyn Orlin's new solo the South African choreographer turns her attention to the Sun King, Louis XIV. Together with Benjamin Pech, Danseur Étoile of the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, and the musician Loris Barrucand, she examines the first dancer in the French kingdom and inventor of classical ballet, who put dance in the service of his politics.

German premiere | 23.–25.8. | HAU2

Inspired by Greek mythology, Euripides Laskaridis’s “TITANS” is situated between light and darkness, between ridiculousness and pathos, grotesque and transformation – and alludes to both the untiring curiosity and the mortality of humankind.