31st International Festival Berlin
9.8. – 31.8.2019
The 31st international festival Tanz im August presented from 9.-31.8. a total of 31 productions, including 7 world premieres and 18 German premieres, by more than 160 artists from 15 countries at 11 venues throughout Berlin.
Central to this year's festival was the RE-Perspective Deborah Hay: Works from 1968 to the Present by the American dance legend Deborah Hay. Her retroperspective included two world premieres, adaptations and a multimedia installation. Another festival highlight this year took place in the course of the worldwide Merce Cunningham Centennial. Tanz im August paid homage to Cunningham in a three-part performance at the Volksbühne Berlin with astonishing performances by the French CCN-Ballet de Lorraine and the Berliner DANCE ON ENSEMBLE.
With this editon, artistic curator of Tanz im August Vrve Sutinen says: " Tanz im August laid out a programme that tracked down choreographic thinking and practices as they appear in dance and in other art forms today. It was designed to offer a glimpse into the multitude of contemporary expression and creation here and now."
2019 Venues:
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3), Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg und Pariser Platz), Deutsches Theater Berlin, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, radialsystem, SOPHIENSÆLE, St. Elisabeth-Kirche, Volksbühne Berlin. The Bibliothek im August was set up for the fourth time during the 2019 festival.
