Social Dance

Usually, in a Western context, when you sit in a theatre watching a performance, you hold your breath, trying to concentrate on the dynamics of the dancers, who are probably keeping their bodies and breath as tensed as yours, if the performance is emotionally demanding. “Scream And Whisper,” however, the new creation by Saburo Teshigawara, premiered in Sala...

French ballet master and choreographer Patrice Bart from L’Opéra national de Paris has been busy working on new ballets with a classical vocabulary. Last year he crea­ted a ballet called “The Little Dancer” for Paris Opera Ballet based on the dance figures of the French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas. For Finnish National Ballet he crea­ted a highly acclaimed...

«Schmuck und Kaugummi müssen draußen bleiben!» Auf dem Boden der Berliner Arena ist ein großes Geviert markiert. Wer den Tanzteppich betritt, muss sich den Bedingungen aller Beteiligten unterwerfen. Keine Schuhe! Auch nicht Socken! Volker Eisenach, Co-Choreograf beim 22. Projekt von Zukunft@BPhil, bleibt hart. Nur wer barfuß agiert, kann am Warm-up teilnehmen. Vor...