Tanz im August 2008

20th International Festival Berlin
15.8.-31.8.2008


TANZ IM AUGUST, Berlin’s international dance and performance festival, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. That’s spectacular. Spectacular because the original festival idea – having the independent avant-garde perform alongside established, sophisticated and sometimes highly subsidized choreographers – has withstood the test of time. Since 1989 TANZ IM AUGUST has become a fine-tuned instrument, a large-scale resonating platform played by artists urgently wanting to confront the Berlin audience with their visions of the world – whether aesthetic, political, playful or with a note of warning – while seeking straightforward reactions to their pieces. One of our main objectives has always been to promote dialogue on the works shown, on methods of production, the role of the spectator and the artist’s position within his own creation and the world at large. This dialogue has continued to intensify every August over the last 20 years.

(Excerpt from the foreword to the 2008 programme by Ulrike Becker, Matthias Lilienthal, Bettina Masuch, André Thériault und Marion Ziemann)

Venues 2008: HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3), Sophiensæle, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Podewil, Halle Tanzbühne Berlin, Radialsystem V, Volksbühne and Tanzfabrik Berlin.

Programme

Akram Khan Company / National Ballet of China Bahok
VA Wölfi / NEUER TANZ 12/ ...im linken Rückspiegel auf dem Parkplatz von Woolworth
Boris Charmatz / Association Edna Aatt enen tionon
Gilles Touyard / Association Edna Programme court avec essorage
Jefta van Dinther / Mette Ingvartsen It‘s in the air
Rachid Ouramdane Loin...
Hiroaki Umeda Accumulated Layout
Hiroaki Umeda Duo
MEMBROS Cia. de Dança Febre
PARKOUR ONE
Veronika Riz
Ragwurz
Nasser Martin-Gousset Comedy
Olivier Dubois Faune(s)
Olivier Dubois Pour tout l‘or du monde…
Cecilia Bengolea / François Chaignaud Pâquerette
Mirko Winkel / SODA Products Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit
Anat Eisenberg / SODA Products The big jump
Corsin Gaudenz / SODA Products Carnet de danse part one on beauty
Felix Marchand / SODA Products Considered
Susanne Martin / SODA Products Rosi tanzt Rosi, die August Version
Kat Papageorgiou / SODA Products Lang
Rita Roberto / SODA Products Right at presence
Thérèse Nylén/ SODA Products Masqueresque
Les SlovaKs dance collective Opening night
Ballet de Lorraine Hymnen
EISBÄR* FOR PRESIDENT Sporting with Eisbär
BADco. Changes
Ivo Dimchev Lili Handel – blood, poetry and music from the white whore‘s boudoir
Faustin Linyekula / Studios Kabako Future?
Marc Rees (R.I.P.E.) Gloria Days
Trisha Brown Dance Company Accumulation (1971) / Geometry of Quiet (2002) / Spanish Dance (1973) / If you couldn‘t see me (1994) / Present Tense (2003)
Zufit Simon Meine Mischpuche – Arbeitstitel: I
Deborah Hay If I sing to you
Dresden Semperoper Ballett Dreamlands
Gustavo Ciríaco / Andrea Sonnberger Here whilst we walk
Dave St-Pierre Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde!

WORK IN PROGRESS
Janez Janša / Janez Janša / Janez Janša Janez Janša
Les Ballets C. de la B. / Ted Stoffer Aphasiadisiac

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