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Open Call for Berlin Arists

For the next edition of Tanz im August, we are looking for 21 Berlin artists to participate with short choreographies in the festival program. The works should deal intersectionally (...)

Thank you, Virve!

Tanz im August was directed for the last time in 2022 by Virve Sutinen, who has been responsible for the festival programme a total of nine times since 2014 and opened it up widely to (...)

Weekly Preview: 23. - 27.8.

The last festival week begins! Two luminaries of Spanish flamenco are with us: dancer Israel Galván and musician Niño de Elche bring "Mellizo Doble" to the stage with great passion and (...)

Party Party Party

Tanz im August invites you to the Closing Party 2022 with the DJs ITSWHY and dø√∑Ç@K∑ ::: on Saturday, 27.8., at Club GRETCHEN. The party will start after the end of the last (...)

Weekly Preview: 17.-21.8.

What is happening this week? URBAN FEMINSIM are showing their world premiere "Strike a Rock" since yesterday – four collaborative pieces with hip-hop, breaking, popping, krump and (...)

Weekly Preview: 10.–14.8.

With "J'ai pleuré avec les chiens - TIME, CREATION, DESTRUCTION" Daina Ashbee continued the first festival week yesterday evening (further dates: 10.+11.8, 20:00, St. Elisabeth-Kirche). (...)

Weekly Preview 5.–7.8.: Opening Weekend

This weekend the 34th edition of Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, finally starts. We are looking forward to eventful days with the participating artists 2022, many (...)

Tanz im August on the Radio!

Tanz im August was presented by Mmakgosi (on Aug. 3) at Refuge Worldwide, a radio station from Neukölln! Refuge Worldwide is committed to a gender-equal radio channel that represents (...)

Food & Drinks: Opening hours of the WAU and the HAU bars

This year, the WAU at the festival centre and two of the HAU bars will once again be providing Tanz im August visitors with delicious snacks and drinks.   Opening hours: WAU Mon+Tues (...)

Magazin im August: Out Now!

The printed edition of Magazin im August 2022 will be published at the start of the festival and will be available at all venues for free. It provides a personal perspective into the (...)

Festival Trailer 2022

Our festival trailer 2022 is online! This offers a first impression of the diversity of the festival 2022 with about 200 artists from over 25 countries. You can hear the music from the (...)

The programme is online and the pre-sale starts!

We are happy to announce the programme for Tanz im August 2022! The retrospective "ONCE OVER TIME" is devoted to Cristina Caprioli / ccap with over 22 works from the past two decades. (...)

Tanz im August back at HdBF!

Among other venues, we’re particularly excited to announce that Tanz im August will be back at Haus der Berliner Festspiele! After three seasons of renovations the Berlin-wide (...)

City Horses at Sismògraf Festival (BPDA)

Visual artist Helena Byström and choreographer Anna Källblad share a desire to tell stories from and based in collaboration and exchange with specific places and their people. In the (...)

Bibliothek im August

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Artistic Direction 2023

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Festival trailer 2021

CREDITS Editing: Dennis Schischke & Niklas Wittig, www.stabilundgrazil.de Music „Berlin (Instrumental)“ by Yari Graphics: Sonja Deffner & Jürgen Fehrmann, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (...)

Big Pulse Open Air

As one of the partners of Big Pulse Dance Alliance, we're delighted to announce three projects that have been selected as part of the Big Pulse Open Air programme. This series of Open (...)

Full festival programme out. Pre-Sale 2021

The 33rd edition of Tanz im August will take place from 6–22 August and we are more than excited to once again show live performances on indoor and open-air stages across Berlin! The (...)

Big Pulse Open Air Commissions – Shortlist Announcement

As one of the Big Pulse Dance Alliance partners, we're delighted to announce the eight projects shortlisted for the first Big Pulse Open Air Commissions. These projects were selected (...)

Big Pulse Dance Alliance

Big Pulse Dance Alliance (BPDA), a network of 12 European dance festivals/institutions brought together by their common aim of developing and strengthening the contemporary dance (...)

Tanz im August 2020

Save the Date: The 32nd edition of Tanz im August takes place from August 7 to 29, 2020. (...)

Aftermovie 2019

In our new Aftermovie we look back on this year's 31st edition of Tanz im August, Berlin's festival for contemporary dance. A big "Thank You" to all artists, partners and to our (...)

Looking back at the festival

The 31st edition Tanz im August is over, but you can now gain an overview of all events in our 2019 online archive.  (...)

Online Magazine

The Online Magazine offered many multimedia features on this year's 31st edition of Tanz im August. All articles are online now. (...)

Festival summary 2019

This upcoming saturday, 31.8. the successful 31st edition of Tanz im August ends. Therefore we created a festival summary for our visitiors, which presents an outline of all the (...)

Book Presentation & Dance in the DDR

The Audience Engagement Formats in the Bibliothek im August (HAU2) will come to an end on the final festival day, Saturday 31.8. with these two special events. Don't miss a presentation (...)

Week Preview: 27.-31.8.

The festival’s final week presents a varied programme including two world premieres. (...)

Week Preview: 21.-25.8.

Today we begin the festival week that apart from the big Merce Cunningham Centennial: Berlin, at the Volksbühne, also features many other exciting productions. (...)

Bustransfers

The festival bus allows you to travel free of charge between selected festival events and venues using your event ticket. There is no need to book. The bus departs from the venue exit (...)

Magazin im August: Out Now

The Magazin im August is available free as of now at the box office in HAU2 and at all venues once the festival is under way. With almost 70 pages, it contains interviews and reportage (...)

Week Preview 15.–18.8.

The second week of Tanz im August 2019 is imminent, and we begin in a light mood with Gunilla Heilborn and the Theater im Bahnhof, who appear again tonight in The Wonderful and The (...)

Opening Weekend 2019 Recap

A vibrand opening weekend of this 31st edition of Tanz im August is behind us. Time to assort our impressions and dare to look back at this beginning. (...)

Weekend Preview 9.–11.8.19

Festivalstart! Our weekend preview is now online and shows you the varied programme for this opening weekend. (...)

"OneTwoThreeOneTwo" Additional Show

Due to the high demand we could add another performance from Albert Quesada and Zoltán Vakulya's piece on 22.8. on 19:00 at HAU3. (...)

Parties 2019

From the 9th to the 31st of August, Tanz im August organizes a five part party-series and turns Berlin once again into a hotspot for dance. There is free admission to all parties. (...)

It’s All About... Talking: Curation and Communication in the Performing Arts

14.08.2019 – 17.08.2019 in Berlin Communication is crucial for curators. They communicate online and offline, with artists, the audience, politicians, and colleagues. Surrounding (...)

Deborah Hay Symposium Schedule

On 27.8. the Deborah Hay retrospective will find its finale with a symposion at Akademie der Künste. The full schedule for the Symposion is out now. (...)

Festivaltrailer 2019

The new Tanz im August trailer is here, join us for this dance summer in Berlin: From 9. to 31.8.2019 the 31st edition of Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, will bring (...)

Complete Programme

The complete programme for the 31st edition of Tanz im August is out now, all tickets are on sale. Click here to go directly to the programme. (...)

Promotion team wanted

Come join the team! We are looking for people to support us with the distribution of our flyers, beginning immediately and until the end of the festival (August 9–31, 2019). Work (...)

RE-Perspective Deborah Hay

Tanz im August will honour legendary choreographer Deborah Hay with a comprehensive retrospective titled RE-Perspective Deborah Hay: Works from 1968 to the Present. RE-Perspective (...)

Save the Date: 9.–31.8.2019

The 31st edition of Tanz im August will take place from August 9 to August 31 2019. The Early Bird ticket presale for selected productions will start on April 10. Tanz im August is (...)

A Look Back 2018

2018 is almost over - A perfect time to look back at this year's eventful 30th edition of Tanz im August. With this year's edition the festival celebrated its special anniversary. If (...)

Virve Sutinen continues as artistic director

Virve Sutinen will remain being the artistic director of Tanz im August until 2022. Since 2014 she's directed the festival, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer. In this time she established (...)

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

As creators of arts and culture in Germany we do not stand above things. Rather we have both feet firmly on the ground – the very ground upon which one of the worst state crimes against (...)

ManifestX Whistle While You Work

"How do we want to experience dance?" That was the question that Whistle While You Work asked the participants at the workshop at Tanz im August. The workshop resulted in a collectively (...)

A look back in photos 2018

The 30th edition of Tanz im August is over ­– Time to look back on this inspiring, moving and surprising festival. Without such an openminded and curious audience it would have never (...)

Tanz im August Summary 2018

The 30th anniversary edition of the Berlin festival Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, ends this coming Sunday, 2 September, after around three very successful weeks. The (...)

Scribe – Exhibition on 1.9.

Throughout this year's festival edition the Scribe team was around to collect impressions and memories of our audience. All these documents in texts and drawings will be exhibited on (...)

Week preview 28.8.-2.9.

Our last festival week has begun! Here you can find all shows at one glance.  (...)

Remembering Klaus Rabien

The team of Tanz im August mourns after Klaus Rabien, longtime photographer of Berlin's dance scene. The archive project FÜR IMMER TANZ dedicates this article to him.  (...)

Beginning of performance of Big Dance Theater delayed on 26.8.

On 26.8., the performance "17c" by the Big Dance Theater at Deutsches Theater will start 15 minutes delayed due to the extended running time at HAU1. (...)

Week preview 22.-26.8.

In this week's preview we present all performances and additional programme at one glance. (...)

Festival Centre

The Festival Centre at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2) is the central meeting place for artists, viewers and festival staff to dance, converse and hang out. (...)

"Scribe" collects festival memories

„Scribe“ invites festival visitors to share their personal experiences and memories of the festival with various Scribe authors. Read more about the project here. (...)

Weekend Preview 15.-19.8.

In the weekend preview we have gathered all performances and audience engagement formats for you. (...)

Opening weekend with STREB Extreme Action

As a special highlight of our opening weekend STREB Extreme Action will perform a spectacular Action Heroe show on 11.08. at Sony Center with free entrance. More info here.  (...)

Poster campaign 2018

For its 30th edition of Tanz im August Berlin's international festival for contemporary dance brings new colors into the city. This year's campaign sends out playful variations on the (...)

Call for Participants in "La Partida"

We are looking for approximately 12 amateur-performers, who are interested in participating in the choreography „La Partida“ by catalan choreographer Vero Cendoya.  Although it doesn´t (...)

30% off the 30th Tanz im August – discount for big bookers

If you go to at least 10 performances during the 30th Tanz im August, you can get a discount of 30% off the usual price. This limited offer is only available at the advance-booking (...)

FÜR IMMER TANZ – 30 years Tanz im August

To mark the 30th anniversary of Tanz im August, freelance journalist Claudia Henne was commissioned to lay the foundation stone of a previously non-existing festival archive. The online (...)