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On February 27 and 28, 2026, Berlin-based British dancer Adam Russell-Jones will present his performance Release the Hounds in the Festsaal of the Sophiensaele. Inspired by dance marathons of the 1920s and 30s and rave culture, the piece leads the audience onto the performer’s “dance floor of the psyche”: a poetic, physical poem about endurance, escape, and survival through dance. With song, movement, and reminiscences of ballrooms and nightclubs, Russell-Jones illuminates the sensuality and urgency of the last dancer on the floor—between pleasure and necessity, history and the present.
Release the Hounds presents a dance through the crisis. On stage, the performer weaves his way through a series of song and dance numbers in the form of an open, physical poem. Set on the dance floor of the performer’s psyche—reminiscent of a ballroom or the basement of a nightclub—the spectacle shows a man who cannot stop dancing. …
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