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Showing Children's and Youth Dance Company 2026

»Funke«

In their new piece, the youngest dancers (aged 6–8) explore the element of fire and open this year’s showings with a dynamic dance that will have sparks flying.

Choreography & Training: Mata Sakka, Fernando Balsera Pita, Neslihan Schmidt

Live Music & Composition: Neslihan Schmidt

Costumes: Sasha Waltz & Guests


»Rain«

In their new piece »Rain«, children aged 9 to 11 explore the diversity of rain: gentle and playful or wild and powerful – bringing the rain to life on stage.

Choreography & Training: Alessandra Defazio, Viviana Defazio, Alexander Nickmann, Fernando Balsera Pita

Live Music & Composition: Alexander Nickmann

Costumes: Nadja Herklotz


»BOLERO«

This year, the young people (aged 12–14) have explored Maurice Ravel’s masterpiece »Bolero« and interpret it from their own perspective using a language all of their own. »BOLERO« transforms repetition into a space of perception; dance becomes a journey into the self, into one’s own changing body.

Choreography & Training: Alessandra Defazio and Jiří Bartovanec

Music: »Bolero« by Maurice Ravel

Costumes: Federico Polucci


»SPLITTER & GANZ«

In »SPLITTER & GANZ«, around 30 dancers from the youth dance company (aged 14+) embark on an embodied quest for identity, belonging and self-determination. Individual stories and collective experiences intertwine, revealing how identity is shaped by origin, environment and social structures, whilst remaining in a state of constant flux.

Choreography & Training: Sebastian Abarbanell and Wibke Storkan

Live Music & Composition: Sofia Albanese

Costumes & Scenography: soffía ralfsdóttir

4
Jul
Showing Children's and Youth Dance Company 2026
Saturday 4.7.2026, 17:00
Radialsystem, Berlin DE
5
Jul
Showing Children's and Youth Dance Company 2026
Sunday 5.7.2026, 17:00
Radialsystem, Berlin DE

Cast History

The Children and Youth Dance Company of Sasha Waltz & Guests

A playful approach to movement and dance forms the basis of the work of Sasha Waltz & Guests' children's and youth dance company at the Radialsystem, which has been growing every year for more than 18 years. In 2006, Sasha Waltz stabilised her work with young dancers, which she had already begun in 2004 with a project in cooperation with »TanzZeit - Tanz in Schulen« and subsequently continued independently. Since then, the work of Sasha Waltz & Guests' children's and youth dance company has been continuously developed and expanded with a permanent home in our studio in the Radialsystem, Berlin. Today, the young dancers are individually supported in four age-graded groups. Based on playful and experimental approaches, the children and young adults can train their movement and further develop their talents.

The children's and youth dance company by Sasha Waltz & Guests is a project by Sasha Waltz & Guests in co-operation with the Radialsystem and supported by the Radial Foundation.