The Potsdamer Tanztage is an international festival for contemporary dance. The festival features workshops, performances, talks, videos, concerts and parties that reflect current developments in the fields of dance and movement art, performance and media and invite visitors to watch, enjoy and try out new things.
This year, emotions are at the centre of the works of the invited guest artists. Kitsch, the longing for a new inwardness and reflection as well as the desire for closeness, togetherness and family stand alongside the harsh economic conditions and growing loneliness in the big cities. This results in the need for communities to subject their life plans to constant scrutiny and renewal.
10 companies from Finland, Norway, France, Germany, Sweden and Hungary as well as 12 workshops for adults and 5 workshops for children and young people make up the programme of this year's festival. Jenni Kivelä throws a party for the hippest people in town, Jo Strømgen reveals life in a women's convent, DIN A13 mix-abled dancers play with the taboos of Kenyan society, Susanne Martin and Bronja Novak deliver a comeback of Angelique, Lia Rodrigues devotes herself to pain, Eszter Salamon blurs the boundaries of our perception and Catherine Diverrès presents a review of the development of contemporary dance.
At the workshops of the 16th Potsdam Tanztage, everyone has the opportunity to deepen their physical experience: Beginners and advanced dancers, professionals and amateurs. Bollywood dance and Feldenkrais, yoga and modern dance, improvisation and advanced training for children's dance, butoh and release provide space to discover and experience yourself in interaction with others.
2nd Children- and Youth Tanztage
Children dance. Of their own accord, full of joy and dedication. Maintaining this joy and dedication, allowing dance to become part of life, is a challenge that the 2nd Children's and Youth Tanztage are committed to meeting. The creative, imaginative, liberating moment of dance should always take centre stage before television, the pressure to perform and self-doubt can bury this fragile talent.
The 2nd Children's and Youth Tanztage offer children, children with parents and young people the opportunity to dance and watch dance pieces. Three companies will be presenting pieces with very different approaches. In Anton, Luka and Benjamin, the Berlin group CORAKOR presents a movement theatre piece in which acting, pantomime and dance tell a story about friendship. The company OXYMORON from Potsdam translates texts into movement in a mixture of modern and breakdance, salsa and tango. BE VAN VARK and their youth dance project from Eisenhüttenstadt are developing a dance piece in which the virtual world of the internet merges with the action on stage.
The programme will be complemented by 5 workshops covering a wide range of topics such as trapeze dance, contact improvisation with children, hip hop for kids and dance by and for children. For the first time this year, the programme will include further training for teachers and professional groups who can integrate children's dance into their everyday work.
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THE FESTIVAL IN NUMBERS
Number of visitors: 2,978
Performances: 13
Talk with the artists:
Concerts and partys: 5
Workshops: 17
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PERFORMANCES
Mi 24. & Do 25. Mai, 20:30
Jenni Kivelä (Helsinki)
Red-Letter Days – German premiere
Fr 26. & Sa 27. Mai, 20:30
Jo Strømgren Kompani (Bergen)
The Convent – German premiere
2.Kinder- und Jungendtanztage
Sa 27. Mai, 16:00
CorAkor (Berlin)
Anton, Luka und Benjamin
2.Kinder- und Jugendtanztage
So 28. Mai, 19:30
Doppeltanzabend
Mit Oxymoron (Potsdam) und Be Van Vark (Eisenhüttenstadt/Berlin)
Mo 29. Mai, 20:30
DIN A 13 Tanzcompany (Köln/Nairobi)
CounterCircles
Di 30. Mai, 20:30
Lia Rodrigues (Rio de Janeiro)
Incarnat
Mi 31. Mai, 20:30
Susanne Martin (Berlin) & Bronja Novak (Göteborg)
Die Eigentümlichkeit, der Exhibitionismus und die Damen von Welt
Do 1. & Fr 2. Juni, 20:30
Eszter Salamon (Berlin/Budapest)
Nvsbl
Sa 3. & So 4. Juni, 20:30
Catherine Diverrès (Rennes)
Solides - Fundamentals of contemporary dance – German premiere
CONCERTS AND BALLROOMS
Un Kuartito (Buenos Aires)
Do 25. Mai, 22:00
Club Deewane
Fr 26. Mai, 22:00
Trollwerk Art (Potsdam)
Sa 27. Mai, 22:00
Kaja (Schweden)
Sa 3. Juni, 22:00
Chop Chop (Schweden)
So 4. Juni, 22:00
WORKSHOPS
WS1: Zeitgenössischer Tanz & Improvisation
mit Isabelle van Grimde (Montréal)
Mo 22. bis Do 25. Mai, 10:30 – 18:00
WS 2: Butoh-Ma
Die Leere - der Raum zwischen den Dingen
mit Tadeshi Endo (Japan)
Mi 24. bis So 28. Mai, 10:00 – 14:00
WS 3: Tai-Chi Dao-Yin
mit Chiang-Mei Wang (Taiwan)
Do 25. bis So 28. Mai 10:00 – 12:00
WS 4: Modern Dance mit Tai-Chi Dao-Yin Technik
mit Chiang-Mei Wang (Taiwan)
Do 25. bis So 28. Mai, 12:30 – 14:30
WS 5: Feldenkrais
Das Becken, Zentrum des Körpers
mit Lisei Haardt-Spaeth (Ferrara)
Do 25. bis So 28. Mai, 18:00 – 20:00
WS 6: Bollywood-Tanz
mit Sudarsana Kumar (Indien)
Do 25. bis So 28. Mai, 18:00 – 20:00
WS 7: Pilates
mit Kirsten Wendeborn (Berlin)
Mo 29. Mai bis Fr 2. Juni, 10:00 – 12:00
WS 8: Release Technik
mit Stephanie Maher (San Francisco)
Mo 29. Mai bis Fr 2. Juni, 10:00 – 12:00
WS 9: Improvisation/ Composition
mit Stephanie Maher (San Francisco)
Mo 29. Mai bis Fr 2. Juni, 12:30 – 14:30
WS 10: Yoga
mit Gerry Kielty (Glasgow)
Mo 29. Mai bis Fr 2. Juni, 16:00 – 18:00
WS 11: Integratives Stimmtraining
mit Karsten Henschel (Wien)
Mo 29. Mai bis Fr 2. Juni, 17:00 – 20:00
WS 12: Contact Improvisation
mit Lucia Walker (Oxford)
Mo 29. Mai bis Fr 2. Juni, 18:00 – 20:00
Pfingst-Jam Contact Improvisation
Fr 2., ab 18:00, bis Mo 5. Juni 2006, 12:00
2.Kinder- und Jugendtanztage
KWS 1: Contact-Improvisation mit Kindern
mit Lucia Walker (Oxford)
Sa 27. & So 28. Mai, 16:00 – 17:30
KWS 2: Tanz von und für Kinder (8 – 12 Jahren)
mit Marie-France Meunier (Frankreich)
Do 25. bis Sa 27. Mai, 10:00 – 12:00
KWS 3: Hip Hop für Kiddis (ab 8 Jahren)
mit Christine Joy Ritter & Timo Draheim (Potsdam)
Do 25. bis So 28. Mai, 16:00 – 18:00
KWS 4: Trapeztanz für Kinder
mit Petra Teckemeier & Eva M. Blaschke (Potsdam/Berlin)
Do 25. bis Sa 27. Mai
KWS 5: Tanzweiterbildung für Schullehrer und Tanzpädagogen
mit Marie-France Meunier (Frankreich)
Do 25. bis Sa 27. Mai, 15:00 – 18:00
