Performer:innen auf Hockern und Musiker:innen in roten Kapuzen posieren vor einer stufenförmigen weißen Plattform im grünen und roten Licht.
Performer:innen bewegen sich asynchron auf einer stufenförmigen weißen Plattform unter violettem Licht, umgeben von Kleidung und Instrumenten.
Drei Performer:innen mit Geigen auf einer stufenförmigen weißen Plattform unter grünem Licht, umgeben von Blumen, eine Person schreit expressiv mit offenem Mund in die Luft.
Vier Performer:innen in dunklem Licht ziehen gemeinsam an einem Stock, während Musiker:innen im Hintergrund auf einer stufenförmigen weißen Plattform sitzen.

Adam Linder / Ethan Braun / Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop

TOURNAMENT

Age recommendation: 12 years

Duration 1 h 00 min

The new piece “TOURNAMENT” brings dance and music together in a new way. Five dancers and a music ensemble use skill and creativity to question and rethink classical forms.

Adam Linder’s choreographies are devoted to the specifics of dance, combining innovative approaches to movement and performativity. His new piece, “TOURNAMENT”, which is set to a specially commissioned score by Ethan Braun, reflects the historical interplay between music and dance. Inspired by the notion that to challenge classical forms you need to perfect them first, this work merges technical virtuosity and artistic experimentation. The stage turns into a playing field, where musicians of the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and five dancers negotiate the myth of harmonious unity.


Tickets

Full 27 / 22 / 17 €
Reduced 17 / 13 / 9 €

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Synopsis by Adam Linder and Ethan Braun

A whistle blows. The games begin.

Preliminary Heat: Music and dance set a responsive field in motion, listening and receiving. Athleticism roots into the ground. Rhythm and harmony pulse into the air.

Heat 2: Is a tussle; a push and pull of opposing partners to the insistent energy of musical loops.

Heat 3: All players align. The fan, glide, and strings merge together in shared time.

Heat 4: The revelry in performing for one another. A bowing to and mashing-up of old dance or musical references. This will boil until someone must surrender.

The Procession: The players and the instruments find rest. Through rest they transform, marking out a new space in the field.

We’ll See: Playfully stepping into a new groove that leaves the Alpha attitude of competition behind.

Nana Epiloque: This space has the potential for everywhereness. Other ways of making sound are produced. The Beta-Girls dance between animation and abandon. 

— Adam Linder and Ethan Braun

Trailer | TOURNAMENT

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Co-production
  • Cast

    Choreographer

    Adam Linder

    Composition

    Ethan Braun

    With

    Olivia Ancona, Nina Botkay, Greg Lau, Dominic Santia, Juan Pablo Camara. Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop: Anna Faber, Isabelle Klemt, Yodfat Miron, Michael Rauter, Mari Sawada

    Stage

    Ana Filipović

    Light

    Shahryar Nashat

    Sound Engineer

    Olivia Oyama

    Sound Designer

    Julio Zúñiga

    Dramaturgy

    Melanie Zimmermann

    Artistic Advice

    Alice Heyward

    Technical Director

    Jan Havers, Doria Worden

    Light

    Sebastian Zamponi

    Production & Tour Manager

    Philip Decker

    Production

    Uta Engel (Adam Linder Studio)

    Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop

    Art Director

    Boram Lie

    Art Director & Manager

    Volker Hormann

    Project Manager

    Michael Hohendorf

    Financial Administration

    Nina Braatz

  • Credits

    Production Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, Adam Linder Studio

    Co-production Tanz im August Berlin / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Kampnagel, DE SINGEL, December Dance

    Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Rusch-Stiftung

    The soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop receives a grant from Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt Berlin for independent groups without their own performance venue.

    In cooperation with Radialsystem

Dates of production

Location

Radialsystem
Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin

Freedom of movement to all of the rooms (with exception of the deck) is guaranteed. There is a barrier-free restroom in the foyer, and directly in front of the entrance of the building are barrier-free parking spaces.

Information about the venue's accessibility can be found here (in German).