Anyone walking down the street in Kreuzberg with Christiane Rösinger will often be stopped. By fans thanking her for unforgettable song lines like ...
Nicoleta Esinencu is a fighter. In her country, she practices the habit of speaking and thinking about things that are often met with silence rather than dialog. She tackles sensitive subjects such as ...
Writing, knife-throwing, sex with ghosts and buildings, conjuring archaic images, reviving performances, linguistic obsession, telepathic communication...
Minimalism and dance sounds, at first glance, like a rather dry, perhaps strained combination. Yet that has never been the case, neither when looking at its “inventor”, the ...
In the summer of 2012, Rabih Mroué showed a piece in Berlin that encapsulates the central motifs of his work at large: "Double Shooting" is not a production in the classical sense, as it does not work with performers ...
Isabelle Schad is a pioneer: she has proven that it is possible to integrate somatic practices into the work of a choreographer. Instead of establishing a fixed repertoire of recurring figures ...
Meg Stuart’s pieces get under your skin. The American choreographer and dancer, who lives in Berlin and Brussels, confronts her audiences with physical and psychological states of emergency ...
Choreographer Kat Válastur loves the ancient myths and fictional fabrications. In her dance pieces, she combines archaic and contemporary elements while exploring essential questions ...
Excess, ecstasy, exaltation – Jeremy Wade has made a name for himself as an extreme performer. His works are disturbing and thought-provoking: they revolve around the loss of control ...
To make the invisible visible is one of the principles Miet Warlop follows in her work. The artist herself has put it a little more drastically: “I am like a sponge absorbing everything I experience.” …
Mamela Nyamza’s lifelong negotiation of her performing body and her professional self has been driven by the fight for means, recognition and dignity.