Tanz im August 2006

18th International Festival Berlin
17.8. – 2.9.2006

2006 marks the eighteenth year of TANZ IM AUGUST. How do you celebrate a festival’s „coming of age“? Is there an interest within the contemporary dance scene in reflecting on the history and tradition of the field? A frame for this year’s festival is provided by two choreographers who have chosen to explore their creative roots and re-examine their development as artists by taking a new look at work from their past: Michèle Anne De Mey with SINFONIA EROICA, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker with MOZART / CONCERT ARIAS. Join us on a journey to the beginnings of these two outstanding Belgian choreographers.

As usual, TANZ IM AUGUST also creates a forum for discussing issues and topics relevant to the contemporary dance scene. We offer talks, labs, workshops, interventions, and a new sommer.bar, where you can eat, relax and enjoy live events with some of the festival artists.

And of course, TANZ IM AUGUST has again invited some of the most exciting contemporary dance artists from Europe as well as Africa, North-America and Asia to present their new works in Berlin. We look forward to welcoming them along with you – our audience!

(Foreword of Tanz im August programme magazine 2006 by Ulrike Becker, Matthias Lilienthal, Bettina Masuch and André Thériault)

Venues 2006: HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3), Sophiensæle, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Podewil, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Tanzfabrik and DOCK 11.

Programme

Astrid Endruweit Mein Tanz
Michèle Anne De Mey Sinfonia Eroica
Louise Lecavalier & Benoît LachambreI’ Is Memory
Louise Lecavalier & Crystal Pite Lone Epic
Ann Liv Young Solo
Mark Tompkins / Cie I.D.A. ANIMAL
Brice Leroux / Continuum Quantum-Quintet
Benoît Lachambre / par b.l.eux Lugares Comunes
Emanuel Gat Winter Voyage / We Came for the Wings, Stayed because We Couldn't Fly / The Rite of Spring
Maren Strack / Max Bauer & post theater Figure 8 Race Remix
Dick Wong B.O.B.* – The Final Cut
Thomas Lehmen Lehmen lernt
Mette Ingvartsen To Come
Tero Saarinen Company Borrowed Light
Pichet Klunchun I am a Demon
Nigel Charnock Frank
Andréya Ouamba / Compagnie 1er Temps Design
Nelisiwe Xaba Plasticization
Papy Ebotani / Studios Kabako Na Tempo
Gaby Saranouffi / Cie Vahinala Soritra
Boris Charmatz / EDNA régi
Lenah Strohmaier Krieg
Emio Greco | PC HELL
Antonija Livingstone The Part
Rosas / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Mozart / Concert Arias. Un moto di gioia.

P.A.R.T.S.
Eleanor Bauer Eleanor! / Empathy, Empathy, Empathy (Authorship is a Black Hole)
Tarek Halaby An attempt to understand my socio-political disposition through artistic research on personal identity in relationsship to the palestinian-israeli conflict, part 1 (solo) / Love.Death. My life with Ting-Yu. Oh wait, I am you
Benjamin Vandewalle Skinside Out / We go
Andros Zins-Browne White Out / Limewire*

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