White Horses is a choreographic performance created in dialogue with a selection of paintings by Max Liebermann and the current exhibition at the Museum Barberini. The dancers embody and expand upon various layers of the paintings – images, qualities and atmospheres. They bring the paintings back into our living world and give them a physical expression that moves through space and time. Like the painter’s living brushstrokes, the movements create impressions – and become riders, waves and horses. This gives rise to new perspectives that challenge existing views and shed light on themes such as dominance, wildness and power. The JungendTanzCompany takes the performance outdoors – in the tradition of painters who carried their canvases into the open air. The open space becomes our canvas as we create a moving painting – a dance.
fabrik JugendTanzCompany was founded in early 2023 under the direction of Giulia Del Balzi and currently consists of nine dancers aged between 15 and 18. The young people have been training for several years in the dance classes at fabrik Potsdam. The company rehearses weekly to hone their dancing skills and develop their own choreographic works. The focus is on contemporary dance, complemented by workshops and performance projects with various choreographers. These provide insights into a variety of aesthetic approaches and dance techniques such as ballet, modern dance, urban dance, improvisation and other artistic methods.
Adi Weinberg is a dancer, choreographer and Gaga teacher. She trained in Jerusalem and Haifa and completed a dance training programme with the Vertigo Dance Company. Since then, she has performed internationally and collaborated with numerous choreographers and institutions, as well as on interdisciplinary art projects. Since 2014, she has been developing her own choreographic practice at the intersection of dance and visual art. Her works often take their starting point from paintings, materials and visual atmospheres, or exhibition spaces, which she translates into physical movement and performative situations. In doing so, she deliberately shifts choreography from the classical stage space into museums, exhibitions and architectural contexts. Adi Weinberg has a long-standing collaboration with the POLIN Museum in Warsaw, which led, among other things, to the creation of the piece Undercurrents last year. The piece will be performed on 2 and 3 June 2026 as part of the festival Potsdamer Tanztage at Französische Kirche in Potsdam. Alongside her artistic practice, she runs Gaga and movement workshops for various target groups in Israel, Poland and Germany.
The project is a collaboration between fabrik Potsdam and the Barberini Museum.
