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Tanztage Berlin 2025 will take place at Sophiensælen from 9 to 25 January 2025. The 34th festival edition will present 4 premieres, 6 revivals and a discourse and workshop programme on scarcity, body politics and burnout. After initial plans to shorten the festival, Sophiensæle have found a way to present the usual 10 selected works from over 200 submitted over 17 days.
Tanztage Berlin 2025 combines critical reflection with artistic experimentation. The 34th edition of the festival is obsessed with freedom, just as the pioneers of modern dance were over a century ago. It explores the burdens that bodies carry in a world that sees them primarily as problems to be solved. Between absence and overpresence, depth and surface, limitation and liberation, bodies inhabit ambiguous interstices. They refuse fixed definitions or to be pinned down to rigid narratives. As vehicles for joy and rage, survival and denial, they invite us to loosen up, redistribute weight and insist on taking up space.
Over almost three decades, the festival for emerging dance talent in Berlin has often reflected the aesthetic and political divisions in the scene or its economic precarity. As the first festival of the year and the prelude to the annual cultural calendar, Tanztage Berlin has been forced several times to …
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