Dance in Germany – Festivals, Exhibitions, Book Tips, Film Tips

An interview with juror Kerstin Evert on the selection process and on her expectations of the German Dance Platform.More ...

The project Intradance was launched in spring 2009. Seven choreographers were invited to begin a working process with Russian companies. The results were presented in May 2010 in Moscow.More ...

From June 15 to 18 the festival In Transit 11 was held at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Its new artistic director, Jens Hillje, put together a full programme.More ...

At the festival from 4.-16. October 2010 young artists develop and discuss contemporary dance.More ...

The festival on Côte d'Ivoire’s legendary pleasure mile in April 2010 brought together German and Ivorian artists for unconventional coproductions.More ...

Program director Frie Leysen will bring avant gardists and border crossers between the disciplines to the Ruhr region in order to dispel clichés.More ...

In Transit revolves around how performance develops, which forces play a role in this and how to talk about the particular in the global monotony.More ...

From 2. February to 1. May 2011, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover hosted the exhibition “Ohne Ekstase kein Tanz” (Without Ecstasy No Dance), which showcased the presentation of dance in the visual arts in the late 19th and early 20th century.More ...

Dance as a radical art form of post-war modernity has influenced the works of visual artists in many and diverse ways - or has itself put art into choreographic contexts.More ...

Valeska Gert was one of the most influential artists of modern times – and no-one knows it. This is what co-curator Wolfgang Müller claims.More ...

Never before has the Guggenheim Museum been so naked, and never before has it been so full of the babble of its visitors’ voices as in early 2010.More ...

An exhibition in Munich explores the connection between Schwabing and Monte Verità, where the Teatro San Materno has reopened.More ...

According to the grande dame of American modern dance, Martha Graham, dance can only be collected in other media. Alongside film and video, dance photography is the most important means of recording it. The Tanzarchiv Köln (German Dance Archive in Cologne) and the Goethe-Institut have devoted an exhibition to this topic that is to be seen all over the world.More ...

LIGNA is a group operating between radio art and performance art. They succeed in using radio as an instrument for politicising public space. A book now documents their interventions.More ...

In the book “Wissenskultur Tanz” 16 experts from diverse disciplines endeavour to explain which figures of knowledge are concealed in the written mediation, in particular, of this artistic genre.More ...

You can change your life in a dance class. That is the credo of choreographer Royston Maldoom.More ...

For more than twenty years now, it has been impossible to imagine the international dance scene without American dancer and choreographer Meg Stuart.More ...

Dance is the performance of movement. We are watching people moving in a certain way. André Lepecki shattered this cosy certainty in his collection of essays “Exhausting Dance”.More ...

Dance cannot show everything. The real feelings are hidden behind the expressive movements of dancing bodies, and in displaying movement, one always also sees its disappearance. It is in the life of dance that its shortcoming lurks. Dance is about absence.More ...

Thurner’s study takes a look at the art of movement which is as original as it is enlightening, presenting it as the history of discussing dance rather than just as a chronology of its stage pieces. It is manifestly the case that the more distant the work of art from language, the more fervent the aesthetic discussion.More ...

In aller Freiheit is an informative study by Franz Anton Cramer that traces reflections on dance in France between 1930 and 1950. In studies of the sources, commentaries, notes and previously unpublished lectures, he shows the conflict between "artistic breadth and conceptual narrowness" that influenced the discourse on dance at that time and which continues to do so today. He maintains a clear focus on the historical and social dimensions to carefully reveal the special quality of the French debate as an appeal for the multiplicity and liberty of dance.More ...

A Pictorial RetrospectiveMore ...

Susanne Linke is one of the most illustrious exponents of the German dance theatre scene since the 1970s. Her style is about precision: paring it down to the bare essentials. A new book rehearses her childhood, stage career and works.More ...

Wim Wenders has made a film tribute to dance choreographer Pina Bausch and a homage to her city, Wuppertal. A success story.More ...

(15 April 2011) He had to be dragged into his first piece by Pina Bausch. Now, Wim Wenders has memorialized the artist with his film Pina. On the Goethe-Institut’s invitation he is presenting the film to the Australian audience in Sydney. In the interview, the film director talks about 3D, dance and mourning.More ...

Sasha Waltz is one of Germany’s most successful female choreographers. The film portrait “Garten der Lüste” (Garden of Earthly Delights) provides a good survey of her work to date and some of her best pieces are also available on DVD.More ...

The short film competition Choreographic Captures will take place for the fourth time in 2011. There will be a public screening of the winners at international festivals and at many cinemas.More ...