With twelve dance performances by international and regional dance companies – including four world premieres and four German premieres – along with workshops, dance jams, and concerts, the 19th Potsdamer Tanztage will transform the Schiffbauergasse into a space of discovery, experimentation, and temptation in the realms of dance and performance, across four stages and six dance studios.
This year’s dance performances exemplify artistic perspectives and reflections on the dramatic ecological, cultural, and social upheavals of our time, rooted in both personal and collective experiences.
The “drunken forests” of Iceland’s melting permafrost regions inspired Serge Ricci to create a poignant exploration of the relationship between humans and nature. His work draws a fascinating arc between dance, visual art, and music.
Ingun Bjørnsgaard, drawing on classical antiquity, explores traditional gender roles and subtly illuminates the dynamics of power in the drama of the sexes with a touch of humor.
The Potsdam-based group Oxymoron also turns its attention to the relationship between the sexes and the apparent impossibility of understanding love.
Sara Shelton Mann, one of the most influential choreographers of the North American West Coast, joins an international group of dancers and musicians in search of the shared roots of humanity beyond cultural and social constructs. In dialogue with the metaphor of the “globalized village,” she appeals for an intercultural society of freedom and responsibility.
With high energy and almost ecstatic dynamism, the Lyon-based company Association Woo embarks on a journey to the sources of individual and collective imagination, driven eightfold by the sound of their electric guitars. In contrast, the choreographed dreamscapes of the Russian group Derevo move with precision through a timeless landscape, evoking an elusive world of childhood and youth.
John Moran also tells of memory through sound and rhythm in his musical-dance chamber play – a collage of sound and text from the microcosms of New York bars and apartments.
Martin Pisani and Martin Nachbar explore concepts and perceptions of time in a playfully intelligent way in their first joint work, profit and loss.
The duo Oleg Soulimenko and Andrei Andrianov, with a wink, compare Russian and Western European dance and performance culture in Made in Russia – a post-communist "competition of systems."
Altogether, this year's festival will feature twelve choreographers from eight countries in the performance program. Following each dance piece, a diverse and intercultural concert program will feature guests from Canada, the USA, Russia, France, and Potsdam.
In addition to performances and workshops, the 5th Children and Youth Dance Days will offer a special program of movement, play, and music for children and their parents.
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THE FESTIVAL IN NUMBERS
Number of visitors: 5,683
Performances: 19
Talks: 13
Concerts and partys: 8
Workshops: 16
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PERFORMANCES
Mai Mi 13. 20:00
Mi-Octobre / Serge Ricci (Paris)
Des Arbres sur la Banquise – Premiere
Mai Do 14. 20:00, Fr 15. 11:00 und 20:00
Oxymoron Dance Company (Potsdam)
I wanna die for you – Premiere
Mai Fr 15. und Sa 16. 20:00
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt (Oslo)
Poppea – Deutschlandpremiere
Mai So 17. und Mo 18. 20:00
Sara Shelton Mann & Project Zero Point (San Francisco)
Tribe/zero point (part 1) – Premiere
Mai Di 19. und Mi 20. 20:00
Association Woo (Lyon)
La Storia – Deutschlandpremiere
Mai Mi 20. und Do 21. 21:15
Oleg Soulimenko (Wien) & Andrei Andrianov (Moscow)
Made in Russia
Mai Do 21. und Fr 22. 20:00
Martine Pisani (Paris) & Martin Nachbar (Berlin)
Profit and Loss – Premiere
Mai Fr 22. und Sa 23. 21:15
John Moran & Saori Tsukada (New York)
John Moran... and his neighbor Saori
Mai Sa 23. 20:00
Derevo (St Petersburg / Dresden)
Islands
5.KINDER- UND JUGENDTANZTAGE
Mai Sa 23. 16:00
Paul E. Paul (Potsdam)
Sauer macht stutzig
5.KINDER- UND JUGENDTANZTAGE
Mai So 24. ab 11:00
Tanztage Familienfest
Mai So 24. 20:00
Trio, Duo, Solo - Tanzabend
Mit CobosMika (Palamós), Nuno Lucas (Lisbon) & Hermann Heisig (Berlin), Maud Liardon (Geneva)
CONCERTS
Mi 13. 22:00 fabrik Club
ERÖFFNUNGSKONZERT
INFLAMMABLE ORCHESTRA (MOSCOW)
Do 14. 21:30 fabrik Club
SANTO BARRIO (Santiago de Chile)
Fr 15. 21:30 fabrik Club
Kulak misafiri (Toronto/Boston/Berlin)
Sa 16. 20:00 fabrik große Bühne
Großer Swingball
Di 19. 21:30 fabrik Club
Capillary Action (New York) / The Season Standard (Berlin)
Mi 20. 21:30 fabrik Club
Minimal Orchestra (Toulouse)
Do 21. 20:00 fabrik Große Bühne
Großer Tangoball
Fr 22. 21:30 fabrik Club
KITCHEN GROOVES (POTSDAM)
Sa 23. 21:30 fabrik Club
NAYEKHOVICHI (Moscow)
So 24. 22.00 fabrik Club
Tanztage-Abschlussparty mit DJ Katjuscha
WORKSHOPS
WS 1 | EINFACHE IMPROVISATIONSTECHNIKEN + PARTNERARBEIT MIT SARA SHELTON MANN
WS 2 | SPIRAL FLOW MIT KEVIN KORTAN
WS 3 | AFRO-BRASILIANISCHER TANZ MIT MURAH SOARES
WS 4 | TANZAKROBATIK MIT JULIA CHRIST
WS 5 | TANZ UND TEXT MIT SIGRID WESTENFELDER
WS 6 | TRANSITIONS - ÜBERGÄNGE / LECTURE UND PRAXIS-LABORATORIUM MIT KRISTIN GUTTENBERG
WS 7 | YIN YANG YOGA MIT KEVIN KORTAN
WS 8 | TAI-CHI DAO-YIN MIT CHIANG-MEI WANG
WS 9 | MODERN FLOW MIT CHIANG-MEI WANG
WS 10 | IMPROVISATION DER IMPROVISATION MIT OLEG SOULIMENKO
WS 11 | BMC - DIE KRAFT DER MITTELLINIE MIT LAMBRINI KONSTANTINOU
WS 12 | AXIS SYLLABUS INTENSIVE - DYNAMIC ALIGNMENT PRINCIPLES MIT FREY FAUST
WS 13 | ZEITGENÖSSISCHES BALLETT MIT JACQUELINE TELLEY MAAG
WS 14 | FUNK STYLE POPPING MIT CHRISTIAN „MIO“ LOCLAIR
WS 15 | CONTACT-IMPROVISATION MIT URS STAUFFER
WS 16 | MIT CHRISTIAN "MIO" LOCLAIR
MAI | Fr 15. – So 17. HAVELHOP: ERSTE POTSDAMER SWING-JAM
MAI | Fr 22. - Mo 25. POTSDAMER CONTACT - JAM
