Dance Scene and Trends in Germany

At first glance, dance and philosophy seem to be a contradictory pair. Yet both disciplines share a troubled history.More ...

In the year of its 50th anniversary Stuttgart Ballet has been elected “Company of the Year 2011” by the European dance critics in the traditional survey of the journal “tanz”.More ...

From 1993 to 1997, Compagnie Detektor created stylistically ground-breaking projects in Berlin at the intersection of dance, theatre, performance and video art. A retrospective.More ...

For some time now, galleries and museums have been making room for choreographers and dancers. Theatres and concert halls are opening for installations and visual arts performances.More ...

The Choreographers from Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand came together to learn from and about each other.More ...

The Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão reflects on the west’s obsession with documenting.More ...

Since 1983, the Essen-based Deutsche Berufsverband für Tanzpädagogik (German professional association of dance) has been awarding the German Dance Prize.More ...

They push the boundaries of dance to include so-called “laugh concerts” and explorations of nothingness – and never without a healthy dose of humour.More ...

In the focus of reflection. The term dance dramaturgy seems to be helpful when describing a new, multi-disciplinary and complex practice in contemporary dance.More ...

After five productive years “Tanzplan Deutschland” is drawing to a close – a farewell that leaves the creative operators themselves in charge of their affairs.More ...

The choreographer William Forsythe has initiated a project named Motion Bank. The intention is to present choreographies as visual data on the internet.More ...

For Ilse Middendorf, “the experience of breath” became the source of all being. Anna Halprin sees dance as “breath made visible”. Impressive films have been made about these two pioneers.More ...

European dance critics selected Martin Schläpfer as Choreographer of the Year 2010. The 50-year-old Swiss has directed Ballett am Rhein, which he established in Düsseldorf/Duisburg, since 2007.More ...

The presentation of the German Dance Award 2010 to choreologist Georgette Tsinguirides draws attention to a hot topic: how can masterpieces be passed on to later generations?More ...

The “Explorations 10” symposium at PACT Zollverein shed light on the potential of not knowing in the fruitful area between art and science.More ...

Tanzconnexions has set itself the target of giving impetus to the dance scene in a region that to date has given little or no support to contemporary dance.More ...

Hip-hop proved long ago that it has no need to fear artistic comparison with other dance genres. Storm, a German dancer, is one of France’s most popular breakers.More ...

Throughout Europe, especially at France’s festivals, Raimund Hoghe is given rapturous reception. In Germany he does encounter a rather tepid response.More ...

Contemporary choreographers are all fired up about the avant-garde – both yesterday’s and yesteryear’s. With their fingers on the pulse of the time, choreographers are archaeologists who excavate within the seldom tangible sphere of a fleeting art form. In doing so, they raise new questions about their own artistic function. German modern expressionist dance is surfacing. Reconstructions and recreations sit well with modern dance’s notion of hybridity.
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The Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture was founded in Weimar in 1919. It was based in Dessau from 1925 to 1933 until the Nazis forced the closure of the school that had such a major influence on style. Now, 90 years on, the Bauhaus dances are being declared classics.More ...

In our imagination, dance and movement are inextricably linked. But are they really the same thing? If one wishes to grasp the differences between dance, movement and art, metaphysics comes into play.More ...

The dance goes on. The cities of Frankfurt am Main and Dresden and the German states of Hesse and Saxony have extended the Forsythe Company’s contract until 2013. A premiere has been staged at the Bockenheimer Depot.More ...