Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Aug. 05, 2017
Coming to a close last weekend, the SOUN D ANCE Festival presented more performances dedicated to the artistic collaboration between dancers and musicians. Highlights included the piece ‘Water Speaks Of Water’ by…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Jul. 28, 2017
Over the course of the opening weekend of the SOUN D ANCE Festival, a diverse range of works were presented. The compositions, consisting of different degrees of improvised material and…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Jul. 25, 2017
Next month, Berlin’s biggest contemporary dance festival Tanz Im August returns with a full programme of new works by international choreographers. For its 29th edition, the festival…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce, Photos by Michela Filzi in Berlin // Jul. 10, 2017
Berlin’s free dance scene, in all its eclecticism and diversity, provides fertile grounds for experimentation within performance. An approach to…[read on]
Article by Katharine Doyle in Berlin // Jun. 09, 2017
To speak of reordering easily suggests that a current state is a need of rejuvenation; moreover, it alludes to the fact that this state, or the elements which constitute it, are malleable, dissolvable, and available for arranging…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Apr. 23, 2017
Upon entering an incense infused studio, the audience was met by a single woman sat cross-legged in the middle of a circle demarcated by white tape. Inhaling the fumes, she drew long, meditative breaths…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Mar. 10, 2017
Building walls — the contemporary rhetoric exacerbated by Trump’s exhaustive twitter-feed — will no doubt go down in history as one of the most heated stories of our times. Seeping out of the internet…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Feb. 14, 2017
Transmediale’s robust programme for this year’s edition of the festival, Ever Elusive, also included experimental performance. The Instrument Inventors Initiative, an artist-run-platform based in The Hague,…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Feb. 14, 2017
‘The Sprawl: Propaganda about Propaganda’, the 2016 film by Amsterdam-based design-duo Metahaven, was screened during transmediale festival in the HKW’s cavernous auditorium. A question, prompted by…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Jan. 13, 2017
For the past twenty years Sophiensaele has hosted one of Berlin’s most attractive contemporary dance festivals: Tanztage. Over ten consecutive days, the dance year is inaugurated with a robust programme of new…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Friday, Jan. 06, 2017
The Max Planck Institutes of Molecular Plant Physiology and Colloids and Interfaces is now calling artists to take part in their artist-in-residence project Knowledge Link through Art and Science (KLAS)…[read on]