Tanz im August 2010

22nd International Festival Berlin
19.8. – 3.9.2010


During the 22nd edition of Tanz im August, we would like to draw your attention to a topic that has become increasingly important – not only in politics and the media, but also in contemporary dance: the ethics of human existence. More often, choreographies include appeals that we should deal with people and resources responsibly. Thus dance is given the function of social criticism.
We are also focusing on dance history and young choreographers’ works. In all, we have invited 38 productions from 19 countries. There are also workshops, installations, lms, lectures, discussions and the sommer.bar program.

(Excerpt from the foreword to the 2010 programme by Ulrike Becker, Dr. Pirkko Husemann, Matthias Lilienthal, André Thériault and Marion Ziemann)

Venues 2010: HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3), Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Podewil, Halle Tanzbühne Berlin, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Radialsystem V, Akademie der Künste and Riehmers Hofgarten.

  • Programme

    les ballets C de la B/Alain Platel & Frank Van Laecke Gardenia
    Tanzcompagnie Rubato & Mahjong Dance Look at me, I’m Chinese
    William Forsythe, Kendall Thomas Human Writes
    Lemi Ponifasio/MAU Tempest: Without a Body
    Simone Aughterlony & Jorge León To Serve
    Héla Fattoumi & Éric Lamoureux Manta
    Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor Dance Projects with Keren Levi Big Mouth
    Philipp Gehmachers & Vladimir Miller dead reckoning
    Meg Stuart & Philipp Gehmachers & Vladimir Miller the fault lines
    Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido Still Standing You
    Xavier Le Roy Products of Other Circumstances
    Boris Charmatz - Musée de la danse 50 Years of Dance
    Jérôme Bel Cédric Andrieux
    Olga de Soto An Introduction
    Eszter Salamon Dance for Nothing
    Jecko Siompo Terima Kost [Room Exit]
    Les SlovaKs dance collective Journey Home
    Irina Müller On Pleasue and Fear
    Andros Zins-Browne The Host

    P.A.R.T.S. / New works
    Noé Soulier The kingdom of shades
    Nicholas Aphane & Steven Michel + – even but odd
    Aron Blom & Mikko Hyvönen Aron & Mikko Thinking Duet
    Daniel Linehan Montage for three
    Noé Soulier Little Perceptions
    Nicholas Aphane time flies ...
    Steven Michel The Desert of Milestones
    Salka Ardal Rosengren & Mikko Hyvönen Trash Talk
    Daniel Linehan Being together without any voice
    Nicholas Aphane = copying
    Veli Lehtovaara Paper Plane

    LOOPING
    Begüm Erciyas Ballroom
    Melanie Lane Tilted Fawn
    Marko Milič Series
    Victor HugoPontes Rendez-Vous
    Nele Suisalu Home(lessness)sickness
    Jean-Baptiste Bonillo Palimpseste

Also interesting

Noé Soulier

The Waves

In his new production, “The Waves,” the French choreographer and trained philosopher Noé Soulier assumes that we associate complex experiences with physical movements and postures, and develops a vocabulary of gestures that activates the body’s own memory.