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    • 40.000 centimetri quadrati
      Claudia Catarzi
      Radialsystem, Berlin 19. - 20. Dec 2015
      One only body, reduced to the essential, which brings itself to the stage in a limited space. Claudia Catarzi starts from the desire to rediscover what solely body can still restore, with its unconditional honesty, allowing the idea to reside in movement, with the potential of fascinating which is in the realm of the act and yet speaking the same language of the dance. To research in order to find, within a precise limit, accessibility to impossible conditions, discover the flexibility of the body while residing in specific spaces. The constriction affects the intelligence of the body which expresses capability of adaptation. The time spent in this area is vital humus.

      by Claudia Catarzi
      Lightdesign: Massimiliano Calvetti
      Present cast:
      Claudia Catarzi (Dance / Choreography)
      Production Company Blu with the support of MiBac and Tuscany Region
    • A & D - Showing von Jeremy Nelson und Luis Lara Malvacís
      Radialsystem, Berlin 15. - 16. Jul 2017
      A and D are part of a larger project – From A to Z – to create a series of highly structured improvisational duets which use signposts and issues connected with life and aging as a framework for this exploration. The practice of manipulating images and concepts onsite following a strict conceptual frame can produce instant movement and unravel choreography that is full of content and related to specific thoughts. The original project began with the idea of 6 duets – A B C D E F – and has expanded to include the whole alphabet.
      Present cast:
      Jeremy Nelson (Dance / Choreography)
      Luis Malvacias (Dance / Choreography)
    • Allee der Kosmonauten
      Sasha Waltz
      Sophiensaele, Berlin 23. - 24. Sep 1996
      Toplocentrala, Sofia 24. - 25. Nov 2021
      In 1996, the premiere of »Allee der Kosmonauten« was the very first production at the Sophiensaele. Since then, its choreographic approach has become legendary: the events of the piece center on the living room couch of a high-rise apartment in the Berlin suburb of Marzahn. Within this confined space, the feelings and movements of three generations of a Berlin family build up dangerously. The inhabitants bury their feelings in lethargy or abandon themselves to feedback loops caused by cramped living conditions. The choreographic encounter with this anxious space, crowded and colliding, triggers solutions at the limit of danceability. The lack of tenderness gives rise to uncomfortable comedy. Avenue of the Cosmonauts is one of a number of early Sasha Waltz projects which explore everyday worlds as spaces for dance interpretation. Created at the cusp of a new epoch, the piece recounts an era of living together without escape routes.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Annette Bätz (Costume Design)
      André Pronk (Lighting Design)
      Elliot Caplan (Video)
      Hanno Leichtmann (Composition, Music)
      Lars Rudolph (Composition, Music)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Rehearsal Direction)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Maya Gomez (Dance / Choreography)
      Ageliki Gouvi (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      World premiere
      23.09.1996

      The piece was developed by and with the dancers Nadia Cusimano, Luc Dunberry, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola , Nicola Mascia, Takako Suzuki and Laurie Young.

      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in coproduction with Schauburg, München; Grand Theatre Groningen / NL; Tollhaus, Karlsruhe; Theater im Pumpenhaus, Münster; Festival Internacional de Dança, Brasilien; Siemens Kulturprogramm, Berlin / München.
      With the friendly support of the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin.
    • Amal
      Medhat Aldaabal
      Davide Camplani
      Sophiensaele, Berlin 21. Jun - 22. Jul 2017
      Tanztheater Erfurt, Erfurt 30. Sep 2018
      You cling to a desire which perhaps your rational mind has already given up. It hurts very often, or it makes you think you are going insane. But then your heart leaps again. Over and over again, conflict seethes, your inner feelings in profound conflict. The choreography by Medhat Aldaabal and Davide Camplani describes this exhausting state of affairs, using all the resources of contemporary dance. His name is »Amal« (Arabic for »hope«). In the form of a young boy, he climbs onto the shoulders of four men, he will not allow them to remain lying on the ground, and he uses his gentle severity to plunge them into turmoil, again and again.

      Medhat Aldaabal with Davide Camplani began developing this piece in 2016, after a dance workshop as part of the ZUHÖREN platform organized by Sasha Waltz & Guests. The workshop was a kind of reunion between Aldaabal and his three fellow dancers, all of whom had come from Syria to Berlin. They went on to form the dance group »Amal«; over the course of one year, they developed the full-length choreography of the same name, under the leadership of Aldaabal and Davide Camplani (Sasha Waltz & Guests). Accompanied by Ali Hasan’s live percussion, they found images located between past and future. In doing so, the process of arriving in a new society repeatedly brought the dancers’ individual reflections back to the idea of hope.

      »seconds pass, making you lose your job
      seconds pass, making you lose the people you like
      seconds pass, and you see your friends, dead
      seconds pass, all the colours shift to black, all kinds of food lose their flavours
      seconds pass making you think that there is no humanity, no fairness.
      seconds pass, while you wish you could die and your pain ends.
      although
      and after every bad thing we went through,
      we feel hope towards life again،
      this hope becomes bigger, then we find ourselves walking....
      to escape from our memories and arrive somewhere else to build up our dreams,
      the dreams, a lot of people have dreamed of,
      but but of which they were deprived…
      we are here now.. we are humans
      we have the right to live... to dream!«
      (Medhat Aldaabal)
      Present cast:
      Medhat Aldaabal (Concept, Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Concept, Choreography)
      Steffen Döring (Dramaturgy)
      Carina Kastler (Assistance Costumes) (Costumes)
      Medhat Aldaabal (Dance / Choreography)
      Fadi Waked (Dance / Choreography)
      Moufak Aldoabl (Dance / Choreography)
      Firas Almassre (Dance / Choreography)
      Nima Thiem (Dance / Choreography)
      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests. Made in radialsystem. »Amal« at the Sophiensaele is supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
    • Beethoven 7
      Radialsystem, Berlin 11. - 12. Mar 2023
      Radialsystem, Berlin 11. - 12. Mar 2023
      »Beethoven 7« is the new two-part evening by Sasha Waltz & Guests, which will receive its world premiere at Radialsystem, Berlin on 11 March: a choreography by Sasha Waltz to Ludwig van Beethoven's 7th symphony and to a commissioned work by contemporary composer Diego Noguera.

      Back in June 2021, Sasha Waltz devised a choreography to two movements from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony at the ancient temple in Delphi as part of the European broadcaster ARTE’s production »Mit Beethoven durch Europa« (Through Europe with Beethoven). The music has captivated the choreographer ever since.

      In »Beethoven 7«, Sasha Waltz together with an ensemble of 13 dancers now devotes herself to Symphony no. 7 in A Major, op. 92 in its entirety, while also searching for modern answers to Beethoven’s pressing questions to the electronic music of Diego Noguera titled »Freiheit/Extasis«, that is developed during the creation process.

      In 1812, Beethoven noted in his diary »Are real, true people slaves to their environment or free?« and witnessed, to his own dismay, the political idea of freedom falter between the French Revolution and the European Restoration. Despite this, his work remains a definitive expression of an aesthetic idea of artistic freedom.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Ludwig van Beethoven (Composition)
      Diego Noguera (Composition)
      Federico Polucci (Costume Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Christopher Drum (Dramaturgy)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Yael Schnell (Rehearsal Direction)
      Clémentine Deluy (Dance / Choreography)
      Rosa Dicuonzo (Dance / Choreography)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Tian Gao (Dance / Choreography)
      Eva Georgitsopoulou (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Annapaola Leso (Dance / Choreography)
      Jaan Männima (Dance / Choreography)
      Sean Nederlof (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests. Made in Radialsystem.
    • Choreographen der Zukunft
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
      Nasser Martin-Gousset
      Xuan Shi
      Niannian Zhou
      Jiri Bartovanec
      Takako Suzuki
      Radialsystem, Berlin 21. - 24. Feb 2008
      Theater im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen 20. - 21. Feb 2010
      Present cast:
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Nasser Martin-Gousset (Dance / Choreography)
      Niannian Zhou (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
    • Colours May Fade
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
      Joanna Dudley
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 07. Oct 2004
      ARTEA arte teatro danza, Rovereto 01. Sep 2007
      We watch two people, isolated from the outside world, who have invented their own language. Time and space have lost their meaning. »colours may fade with friction read instructions carefully store in a cool and dry place no side effects« is the fourth joint work by Dudley and Diaz de Garaio Esnaola. Their desire to tell stories with music has led them to develop vocal possibilities, adding to their own score. The set designer Rufus Didwiszus places the two characters in an inescapable space that is tipped at an angle of 90°. This means that the audience follow the action as if through the lens of a camera mounted on the ceiling.
      Present cast:
      Joanna Dudley ()
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Beate Borrmann (Costumes)
      World premiere
      08.10.2004

      A production of Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests.
    • Continu
      Sasha Waltz
      Schauspielhaus Zürich, Zürich 20. - 26. Jun 2010
      The Isreali Opera, Tel Aviv 15. - 18. May 2019
      In »Continu« a field of tension between choreographic, musical and visual currents of energy is generated, while the title denotes the continuity of the perpetual forces of Nature. Sasha Waltz engages in »Continu« with primary impulses deriving from her major projects for museums of 2009 - the artistic inaugurations for David Chipperfield's Neues Museum Berlin and Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI in Rome. Employing twenty-four dancers she has conceived a large-format, archaic choreography. The epochal symphonic work »Arcana« by Edgard Varèse represents the musical core of »Continu«, which is then complemented by compositions by other artists like Iannis Xenakis and Claude Vivier.
      Ninety years ago Varèse - a visionary artist like no other of his time - promulgated the combining of artistic and scientific content. One may speak of transformation, of change, of awakening in respect to »Arcana«, though it be not so much a matter of alchemy as of a colossal nocturnal volcanic eruption, the Promethean temptation to take possession of the cosmos encompassed by and through sound.
      Since the 2010 premiere of »Continu« in Schauspielhaus Zürich the piece has been revised several times and in Salzburg, summer 2011, Sasha Waltz presented the final version. The beginning of the new version includes the live percussion solo »Rebonds B« composed by Iannis Xenakis.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Pia Maier Schriever (Set Design)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Ayaka Azechi (Dance / Choreography)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Florencia Lamarca (Dance / Choreography)
      Sergiu Matis (Dance / Choreography)
      Thomas Michaux (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Niannian Zhou (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Liza Alpízar Aguilar (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Idan Yoav (Dance / Choreography)
      Blenard Azizaj (Dance / Choreography)
      Robyn Schulkowsky (Percussion) (Soloists Instrumental)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Rehearsal Direction)
      World premiere
      20.06.2010
      Zürcher Festspiele
      Schauspielhaus Zürich

      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in collaboration with Schauspielhaus Zürich/Zürcher Festspiele, spielzeit’europa|Berliner Festspiele and Sadler’s Wells London.
      Supported by Radial Stiftung. Made in radialsystem.
    • d'avant
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
      Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
      Luc Dunberry
      Damien Jalet
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 02. - 07. Apr 2002
      Southbank Center, London 06. - 07. May 2015
      »d’avant« originates from the initiative of Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and his desire to bring singing and movement into an equal level in the theatrical discourse. A project to which he invites Luc Dunberry, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet, with whom he co-directs and co-choreographs it. When the two extraordinary dance couples Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet from Les Ballets C. de la B. and Luc Dunberry and Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola from the dance ensemble of Sasha Waltz & Guests met for the first time, they all four discovered a shared enthusiasm for the vocal music of the Middle Ages and decided to create a joint production focusing on four dancing singers, or alternatively four singing dancers. All four protagonists have also had vocal training, and they were involved in the development of the piece to an equal extent as directors and choreographers. Starting out from the vocal music of the Middle Ages, the quartet created a mosaic of song and movement. Set on a construction site, this »medieval boys band« dreams its way through several epochs. From today’s perspective, »d’avant« thus recalls the past in freely arranged atmospheric images, leaving space for associations by avoiding the narrow framework of a linear plot.
      Present cast:
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Concept, Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Musical Direction)
      Luc Dunberry (Concept, Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sylvia Hagen-Schäfer (Costume Design)
      Rudolf Heckerodt (Lighting Design)
      Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Dance / Choreography)
      Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Concept, Choreography)
      Damien Jalet (Dance / Choreography)
      Damien Jalet (Concept, Choreography)
      World premiere
      19.09.2002
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin

      A production of Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests in co-production with Les Ballets C. de la B./Gent, Festival de Marseille, Festival le Carreau/Scene Nationale de Forbach and Theatre de la Ville, Paris.
    • Dialoge '93 – Künstlerhaus Bethanien (showing I - IV)
      Sasha Waltz
      Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 31. Jan - 27. Mar 1993
      Sasha Waltz’ interdisciplinary »Dialogue« projects are powerfully creative fields for her work. These encounters between visual artists, musicians and dancers are celebrating the inspiring moment of creation - the free spirit of improvisation and the pure delight of experimentation.

      »For me, the most important thing regarding the »Dialogue«-projects, is the experience of so many different forms and worlds in art, dance and music. I am interested in the biggest possible freedom of art and not in any limitation in form and content. Neither art, dance nor music are arranged before, it is about the condition of being on the way, of being in permanent transition.«
      World premiere
      27.03.1993
      Künstlerhaus Bethanien
      Berlin
    • Dialoge '99/I – Sophiensæle
      Sophiensaele, Berlin 21. May 1999
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      World premiere
      21.05.1999
      Sophiensæle
      Berlin
    • Dialoge '99/II – Jüdisches Museum
      Sasha Waltz
      Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Berlin 11. Jun 1999
      The interdisciplinary projects »Dialogues« are important and powerful creative fields for Sasha Waltz´ work. The short but very intensive encounters between musicians, artists, dancers and choreographers take place in very specific places as the Sophiensæle Berlin, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Mendelsohnbau at the Lehniner Platz Berlin, a medieval monastery in Montpellier, the Opera in Bordeaux, the St. Elisabeth church in Berlin or the »skeleton« of the Palast der Republik in Berlin. The architecture is an important protagonist itself.
      The dialogue is happening on different mulitfaceted levels with the main focus on the free spirit of improvisation and the pure delight of experimentation.

      »For me, the most important thing regarding the »Dialogue«-projects, is the experience of so many different forms and worlds in dance and music. I am interested in the biggest possible freedom of art and not in any limitation in form and content. Contradictory actions should persist side by side. Artist, who don´t inevitably meet each other, should encounter. The more their artistic visions are far away from mine, the more possible it is to create a real dialogue between the artists and to widen the spectators view. Neither dance nor music are arranged before, it is about the condition of being on the way, of being in permanent transition.«
      Sasha Waltz
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Hans Peter Kuhn (Sound Installation)
      Alexandra Bachzetsis (Dance / Choreography)
      Julie Bougard (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Alan Good (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Joakim NaBi Olsson (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Clara Villa-Lobos (Dance / Choreography)
      Junko Wada (Dance / Choreography)
      Laurie Young (Dance / Choreography)
      Sigal Zouk-Harder (Dance / Choreography)
      Rufus Didwiszius (Set Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Thilo Reuther (Lighting Design)
      Opening
      11. 06.1999
      Jewish Museum
      Berlin
    • Dialoge - Wirbel
      Radialsystem, Berlin 07. - 15. Apr 2018
      1993-2018: This year, the Sasha Waltz & Guests company celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. Celebrations kicked off in January with Travelogue I - Twenty to eight, Sasha Waltz's debut piece, still acclaimed today. In April, Berlin audiences will have the opportunity to take a direct look at a crucial inspiration for the work of Sasha Waltz. A wide variety of artistic friends and collaborators from the last twenty-five years will encounter dancers from the company, staging a dialogue between dance and music. Featuring, among others, Jonathan Bepler, Michael Rauter, Yoshiko Chuma, Julyen Hamilton and Meg Stuart. A love of experiment and the free spirit of improvisation will be central to all four evenings.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests.
    • Dialoge 00 – La Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs
      Chapelle das Pénitents Blancs, Avignon 22. Jul 2000
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      World premiere
      22.07.2000
      La Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs
      Festival d’Avignon
    • Dialoge 00 – Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 01. Dec 2000
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      World premiere
      01.12.2000
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
      Berlin
    • Dialoge 01 – 17-25/4
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 13. Sep 2001
      World premiere
      13.09.2001
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
      Berlin
    • Dialoge 01 – Bombay
      Tata Theatre, Bombay 16. Mar 2001
      World premiere
      16th of March 2001
      Bombay
      Indien
    • Dialoge 03 – Les Grandes Traversées
      Salle A. Vitez, Grand Théâtre, Bordeaux 27. Nov 2003
      World premiere
      27.12.2003
      Salle A. Vitez/Grand Théâtre
      Bordeaux
    • Dialoge 04 – Palast der Republik
      Palast der Republik, Berlin 17. Sep 2004
      World premiere
      17.09.2004
      Palast der Republik
      Berlin

      Sponsored by Hauptstadtkulturfonds
    • Dialoge 04 – Paris
      Le ferme du Buisson-Noisiel, Paris 17. Jan 2004
      World premiere
      17.01.2004
      Le ferme du Buisson-Noisiel
      Festival Les Presqu’îles de Danse
      Paris
    • Dialoge 04 – Passages
      Les Ursulines/Studio Bagouet, Montpellier 04. Jul 2004
      World premiere
      04.07.2004
      Montpellier
      Festival Montpellierdanse
    • Dialoge 04 – St. Elisabeth I
      St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin 21. Aug 2004
      World premiere
      21.08.2004
      TANZ IM AUGUST - International Dance Festival Berlin
    • Dialoge 04 – St. Elisabeth II
      St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin 22. Aug 2004
      World premiere
      22.08.2004
      TANZ IM AUGUST - International Dance Festival Berlin
    • Dialoge 04 – St. Elisabeth III
      St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin 28. Aug 2004
      World premiere
      28.08.2004
      TANZ IM AUGUST - International Dance Festival Berlin
    • Dialoge 04 – St. Elisabeth IV
      St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin 29. Aug 2004
      World premiere
      29.08.2004
      TANZ IM AUGUST - International Dance Festival Berlin
    • Dialoge 05 – Happy Day
      Opéra de Lille, Lille 07. May 2005
      World premiere
      07.05.2005
      Opéra de Lille
    • Dialoge 06 – Bologna
      Chiostro di San Martino, Bologna 01. Jul 2006
      World premiere
      01.07.2006
      Chiostro di San Martino
      Bologna
    • Dialoge 06 – Freiburg
      E-Werk, Freiburg 19. Mar 2006
      World premiere
      19.03.2006
      E-Werk
      Freiburg
    • Dialoge 06 – Radiale Systeme
      Sasha Waltz
      Radialsystem, Berlin 14. - 30. Sep 2006
      The interdisciplinary projects »Dialogues« are important and powerful creative fields for Sasha Waltz´ work. The short but very intensive encounters between musicians, artists, dancers and choreographers take place in very specific places as the Sophiensæle Berlin, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Mendelsohnbau at the Lehniner Platz Berlin, a medieval monastery in Montpellier, the Opera in Bordeaux, the St. Elisabeth church in Berlin or the »skeleton« of the Palast der Republik in Berlin. The architecture is an important protagonist itself.
      The dialogue is happening on different mulitfaceted levels with the main focus on the free spirit of improvisation and the pure delight of experimentation.

      »For me, the most important thing regarding the »Dialogue«-projects, is the experience of so many different forms and worlds in dance and music. I am interested in the biggest possible freedom of art and not in any limitation in form and content. Contradictory actions should persist side by side. Artist, who don´t inevitably meet each other, should encounter. The more their artistic visions are far away from mine, the more possible it is to create a real dialogue between the artists and to widen the spectators view. Neither dance nor music are arranged before, it is about the condition of being on the way, of being in permanent transition.«
      Sasha Waltz
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Liza Alpízar Aguilar (Dance / Choreography)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Lisa Densem (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Matija Ferlin (Dance / Choreography)
      Gabriel Galindez Cruz (Dance / Choreography)
      Mamajeang Kim (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Grayson Millwood (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Öhman (Dance / Choreography)
      Pinar Ömerbeyoglu (Dance / Choreography)
      Manuel Alfonso Pérez Torres (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Sportelli (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasha Waltz (Dance / Choreography)
      Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Music Ensembles)
      Vocalconsort Berlin (Vocal Ensembles)
      Ensemble Musikfabrik (Music Ensembles)
      Opening
      14.09.2006
      RADIALSYSTEM V
      Berlin
    • Dialoge 07 – Bangalore
      Ranga Shankara, Bangalore 10. Jan 2007
      World premiere
      10.01.2007
      Ranga Shankara
      Bangalore
    • Dialoge 07 – Pergamonmuseum
      Sasha Waltz
      Pergamonmuseum, Berlin 24. Mar 2007
      World premiere
      24.03.2007
      Pergamonmuseum
      Berlin
    • Dialoge 08 – Carlo Scarpa
      Palazzo Carlo Scarpa, Venedig 28. Nov 2008
      World premiere
      28.11.2008
      Palazzo Carlo Scarpa in the frame of Concordanze
      Venedig
    • Dialoge 09 – MAXXI
      Sasha Waltz
      MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rom 13. - 15. Nov 2009
      »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« by Sasha Waltz, to inaugurate Rome’s new museum for contemporary art »MAXXI«, could be viewed only in Rome. Being dedicated to 21st. Century architecture and art of every form including the performing arts the »Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo« is conceived as a laboratory-style museum, and with this in mind the British architect Zaha Hadid devised a flexible museum topography allowing for manifold modalities of interpreting art.
      Sasha Waltz was invited by the administrators of the building to create the dedication. She proceeded further with the development her notion of the moving exhibition on the various levels of a building, a pursuit begun with the Neuen Museum in Berlin.
      The renowned Sound artist Hans Peter Kuhn, costume designer Bernd Skodzig and musicians and dancers from the Sasha Waltz & Guests ensemble were participating in the artistic dedication of the new Rome museum »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI«.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Hans Peter Kuhn (Sound Installation)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Liza Alpízar Aguilar (Dance / Choreography)
      Ayaka Azechi (Dance / Choreography)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Hervé Chaussard (Dance / Choreography)
      Nadia Cusimano (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Giannalberto de Fillippis (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Charlotte Engelkes (Dance / Choreography)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Renate Graziadei (Dance / Choreography)
      Mamajeang Kim (Dance / Choreography)
      Florencia Lamarca (Dance / Choreography)
      Todd McQuade (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Sergiu Matis (Dance / Choreography)
      Thomas Michaux (Dance / Choreography)
      Grayson Millwood (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Francesca Noia (Direction Assistance)
      Pinar Ömerbeyoglu (Dance / Choreography)
      Francesca Noia (Direction Assistance)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Antonio Ruz (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Sportelli (Dance / Choreography)
      Shang-Chi Sun (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Junko Wada (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Laurie Young (Dance / Choreography)
      Niannian Zhou (Dance / Choreography)
      Frances-Marie Uitti (Violoncello) (Soloists Instrumental)
      Valentin Garvié (Trumpet) (Soloists Instrumental)
      Sava Stoianov (Trumpet) (Soloists Instrumental)
      Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop (Music Ensembles)
      World premiere
      14.11.2009
      Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
      Rome

      A production of MAXXI in coproduction with Sasha Waltz & Guests. Projekt and Organisation: Fondazione Romaeuropa. With the support of Goethe-Institut Rom. Thanks to the Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo and the German Embassy in Italy.
    • Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum
      Sasha Waltz
      Neues Museum, Berlin 18. - 30. Mar 2009
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Urte Kusserow (Hair & Make-up)
      Kati Heimann (Hair & Make-up)
      Liza Alpízar Aguilar (Dance / Choreography)
      Ayaka Azechi (Dance / Choreography)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Hervé Chaussard (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Lisa Densem (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Charlotte Engelkes (Dance / Choreography)
      Delphine Gaborit (Dance / Choreography)
      Gabriel Galindez Cruz (Dance / Choreography)
      Renate Graziadei (Dance / Choreography)
      Mamajeang Kim (Dance / Choreography)
      Florencia Lamarca (Dance / Choreography)
      Sergiu Matis (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Thomas Michaux (Dance / Choreography)
      Jeroen Mosselman (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Elena Murcia Pinto (Dance / Choreography)
      Pinar Ömerbeyoglu (Dance / Choreography)
      Francesca Pennini (Dance / Choreography)
      Manuel Alfonso Pérez Torres (Dance / Choreography)
      Jonathan Pranlas (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Antonio Ruz (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Shang-Chi Sun (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Niannian Zhou (Dance / Choreography)
      Vocalconsort Berlin (Vocal Ensembles)
      Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop (Music Ensembles)
      Opening
      18.03.2009
    • Dialoge 13 – Kolkata
      Sasha Waltz
      Padmini Chettur
      Mahler Chamber Orchestra
      Jorasanko Rajbari, Kolkata 12. - 13. Jan 2013
      With the project »Dialoge 2013 – Kolkata« German choreographer Sasha Waltz is exploring the historic district of North Kolkata together with her Indian colleague Padmini Chettur. Thirteen dancers of her company Sasha Waltz & Guests will meet Padmini Chettur and members of her ensemble accompanied by four musicians of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. »Dialoge 2013 – Kolkata« takes place in the framework of »Germany and India 2011-2012 – Infinite Opportunities« and is presented in collaboration with Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata.

      The interdisciplinary projects »Dialoge« (Dialogues) are important and powerful creative fields for Sasha Waltz’ work. The short but very intensive encounters between musicians, artists, dancers and choreographers take place in very specific places – in Berlin for example in the »skeleton« of the Palast der Republik, the Jewish Museum or the New Museum reconstructed by David Chipperfield – as well as in India in January 2007 in the context of a guest performance in Bangalore at the Ranga Shankara theatre.
      The architecture is an important protagonist itself. The dialogue is happening on different multifaceted levels with the main focus on the free spirit of improvisation and the pure delight of experimentation.
      World premiere
      12. 01.2013
      Jorasanko Rajbati
      Kalkutta
    • Dialoge 20-13 Festival d'Avignon
      Sasha Waltz & Guests
      Burak Özdemir
      GIOM/Guillaume Bruère
      Opéra - Théâtre d'Avignon, Avignon 07. Jul 2013
      Sasha Waltz’ interdisciplinary »Dialogue« projects are powerfully creative fields for her work. These encounters between visual artists, musicians and dancers are celebrating the inspiring moment of creation - the free spirit of improvisation and the pure delight of experimentation.
      In the frame of the 67th Festival d'Avignon, Sasha Waltz and a few dancers of her company Sasha Waltz & Guests will meet the French artist GIOM / Guillaume Bruère and the Turkish bassoonist Burak Özdemir to improvise together.

      »Dialogues 20-13« was also a part of the jubilee programme for the 20th anniversary of Sasha Waltz & Guests and an instance of its new role as Cultural Ambassador of the European Union.

      »For me, the most important thing regarding the »Dialogue«-projects, is the experience of so many different forms and worlds in art, dance and music. I am interested in the biggest possible freedom of art and not in any limitation in form and content. Neither art, dance nor music are arranged before, it is about the condition of being on the way, of being in permanent transition.«
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Guillaume Bruère (Set Design)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      László Sandig (Dance / Choreography)
      Sophia Sandig (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Niannian Zhou (Dance / Choreography)
      World premiere
      07.07.2013
      Avignon
    • Dialoge 2020 – Relevante Systeme
      Radialsystem, Berlin 20. - 23. Aug 2020
      In August 2020, Sasha Waltz & Guests will return to the stage with a project in correlation of music, choreography and architecture that refers to the idea of the »Dialogues«, which have taken place regularly since the company's founding in 1993. In »Dialoge 2020 – Relevante Systeme« 27 dancers convert the radialsystem and its spacious surroundings into a stage.

      The evening begins with individual dance solos revolving around the toppic of discrimination to the trumpet solo »I can’t breathe« by Georg Friedrich Haas (2014). The Solo was written as a direct response to the violent death of Eric Garner and the Black Lives Matter movement. It will be performed live by soloist Marco Blaauw, a member of the Ensemble Musikfabrik Köln, for which the solo was written. Sasha Waltz has been collaborating with the trumpeter since »insideout« (2003) to the music of Rebecca Saunders.

      Subsequent the audience will experience an adaptation of Sasha Waltz' »Sacre« creatively dealing with the limiting conditions and circumstances of our current situation. The original choreography to the ballet »Le sacre du printemps« by Igor Stravinsky was scheduled to be performed at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin in August 2020. The current times lend new acuteness to the oeuvre: The Covid 19 pandemic demands great sacrifices of every member of the society, the arts are highly affected by it. The performances aim at expressing art's relevance, their artistic cast mainly consisting of freelance dancers.

      At the end of »Dialoge 2020 – Relevante Systeme« Sasha Waltz together with her dances opens up new perspectives on distance and closeness to the music of »Boléro« by Maurice Ravel.

      The interdisciplinary projects »Dialogues« are important and powerful creative fields for Sasha Waltz´ work. They are intensive and inspired encounters between different artforms at very specific places. Often they mark the beginning of the development of a new choreographic work.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Direction, Choreography)
      Jasmin Lepore (Costume Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design Sacre)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Ayaka Azechi (Dance / Choreography)
      Blenard Azizaj (Dance / Choreography)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Anne Brinon (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Di Pretoro (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Yuya Fujinami (Dance / Choreography)
      Tian Gao (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Annapaola Leso (Dance / Choreography)
      Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (Dance / Choreography)
      Sergiu Matis (Dance / Choreography)
      Sean Nederlof (Dance)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Aladino Rivera Blanca (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Wibke Storkan (Dance / Choreography)
      Joel Suárez Gómez (Dance / Choreography)
      Stylianos Tsatsos (Dance / Choreography)
      Marco Blaauw (Soloists Instrumental)
      Antonio Ruz (Rehearsal Direction)
      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in cooperation with the radialsystem kindly supported by Radial Stiftung.
    • Dialoge 2020 – Relevante Systeme II
      Radialsystem, Berlin 03. - 06. Dec 2020
      From 3 to 6 December the dance company will stream the project »Dialoge 2020 – Relevante Systeme II« live from the radialsystem in Berlin. It will be evenings of improvisations, in which the musicians Acid Pauli (3.12.), Brendan Dougherty (4.12.), Diego Noguera Berger (5.12.) and Lucrecia Dalt (6.12.) from Berlins rich electronic music scene and dancers of Sasha Waltz & Guests interact live on stage. A love of experiment and the free spirit of improvisation will be central to all four evenings.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Idea)
      Olaf Danilsen (Lighting Design)
      Jasmin Lepore (Costume Design)
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests.
    • Dialoge 2021 - Ludwigsburg
      Blühendes Barock, Ludwigsburg 25. - 27. Jun 2021
      The field of tension between music, choreography and architecture forms an important power centre for the work of Sasha Waltz and the soon-to-be 20-year-old project series »Dialogues«. After artistic explorations of the Jewish Museum and the Neues Museum in Berlin, a medieval monastery complex in Montpellier, an old mansion in Calcutta or the gutted Palast der Republik in Berlin, the choreographer will devote herself to one of the largest and original castles in Europe in the summer of 2021. Accompanied by the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau and Henry Purcell, the audience will be led through the baroque backdrop from the sea of blossoms in the North Garden to the Court of Honour of the Ludwigsburg Residence Palace. The danced parcours brings picturesque scenes to life and ends in an exciting stylistic break as the sun sets: the new choreography »In C« to the music of the same name by Terry Riley, the founder of musical minimalism, so-called minimal music.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Direction, Choreography)
      Jasmin Lepore (Costume Design)
      Olaf Danilsen (Lighting Design)
      Blenard Azizaj (Dance / Choreography)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Anne Brinon (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Clémentine Deluy (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Melissa Figueiredo (Dance / Choreography)
      Yuya Fujinami (Dance / Choreography)
      Tian Gao (Dance / Choreography)
      Agnieszka Jachym (Dance / Choreography)
      Lorena Justribó Manion (Dance / Choreography)
      Annapaola Leso (Dance / Choreography)
      Sergiu Matis (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Sean Nederlof (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Aladino Rivera Blanca (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Gabriele Oechsle (Dance)
      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in co-production with Ludwigsburg Festival – Internationale Festspiele Baden-Württemberg.
    • Dialoge Roma 2020 - Terra sacra
      Auditorium Parco della Musica - Cavea, Rom 18. - 20. Sep 2020
      Sasha Waltz & Guests at Romaeuropa 2020: Originally scheduled to perform Sasha Waltz’ legendary dance piece »Allee der Kosmonauten«, the German choreographer adapted to the current situation and developed an open air project in correlation of music, choreography and architecture, artistically refering to the idea of the »Dialogues«, which have taken place regularly since the company's founding in 1993. Eleven years ago Sasha Waltz & Guests’ »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« in November 2009 inaugurated the Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI).

      In »Dialoge Roma 2020 – Terra Sacra« 21 dancers will convert the space in front of the Auditorium Parco della Musica into a stage. The evening begins with individual dance solos grappling with the toppic of discrimination to the trumpet solo »I can’t breathe« by Georg Friedrich Haas. The solo was written as a direct response to the violent death of Eric Garner and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014 for the Ensemble Musikfabrik Köln.

      Subsequent the audience will experience an adaptation of Sasha Waltz' choreography »Sacre« (2013) to the ballet »Le sacre du printemps« by Igor Stravinsky, which gives the project its title, telling the story of a spring rite, of sacrifice and the chance at new beginnings. Present-day times lend new acuteness to the oeuvre: The Covid 19 pandemic demands great sacrifices of every member of the society, the arts are highly affected by it. The adaptation creatively deals with the limiting conditions and circumstances of our current situation and also aims at expressing art's relevance, the artistic cast mainly consisting of freelance dancers.

      The interdisciplinary projects »Dialogues« are important and powerful creative fields for Sasha Waltz´ work. They are intensive and inspired encounters between different artforms at very specific places. Often they mark the beginning of the development of a new choreographic work.

      »For me, the most important thing regarding the »Dialogue«-projects, is the experience of so many different forms and worlds in dance and music. I am interested in the biggest possible freedom of art and not in any limitation in form and content.«
      Sasha Waltz
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Direction, Choreography)
      Jasmin Lepore (Costume Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design Sacre)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Di Pretoro (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Yuya Fujinami (Dance / Choreography)
      Tian Gao (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Annapaola Leso (Dance / Choreography)
      Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (Dance / Choreography)
      Sergiu Matis (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Sean Nederlof (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Joel Suárez Gómez (Dance / Choreography)
      Antonio Ruz (Rehearsal Direction)
      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests.
      Sasha Waltz & Guests is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
    • Dido & Aeneas
      Henry Purcell
      Sasha Waltz
      Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg 29. Jan 2005
      Forum am Schlosspark, Ludwigsburg 20. - 22. May 2022
      Henry Purcell’s »Dido & Aeneas« is often described as the oldest love story in English opera. The production was a premiere for Sasha Waltz, marking the beginning of her work on »choreographic opera«. Together with 12 dancers from her ensemble and 51 musicians choristers and soloists, Sasha Waltz has created her own interpretation of the opera »Dido and Aeneas«. The emotional and multi-faceted world of this, Purcell’s only complete opera, is the starting point for the choreographic work. The choreographic transposition of the opera and the expansion of musical theatre through the medium of dance are at the heart of the »Dido & Aeneas « project. The combination of various genres and art forms has been the main focus of the work of Sasha Waltz in recent years. This has led to the realisation of such diverse projects as »Dialoge'99« at the Jewish Museum, »17-25/4« in and around the Mendelssohn building on Rosa Luxemburg Platz and the dance installation »insideout«. With the adaptation of Schubert’s »Impromptus« which premiered in April 2005, the ensemble has turned to classical music and entered a new creative phase of its evolution. Staging an opera was therefore a logical step in Sasha Waltz’s artistic biography. With »Dido & Aeneas«, Sasha Waltz successfully combines dance, music and song in a completely new way for the opera. Singers and choristers are part of an overall choreography, which sets them loose from their original roles and functions. In Dido’s final aria, it is no longer clear who is a singer, dancer, soloist or choir member. With the help of the impressive ensemble, Sasha Waltz’s choregraphy goes far beyond the mere illustration of the opera’s story. The opera »Dido & Aeneas«, a myth of flight, expulsion and love in times of war was acclaimed at its premiere in 2005 and at countless guest performances since.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Christopher Moulds (Musical Direction)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Christine Birkle (Costume Design)
      Thilo Reuther (Lighting Design)
      Clémentine Deluy (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Peggy Grelat-Dupont (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Gyung Moo Kim (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo soprano) (Soloists)
      Nikolay Borchev (baritone) (Soloists)
      Aphrodite Patoulidou (soprano) (Soloists)
      Luciana Mancini (Mezzosopran) (Soloists)
      Yannis Francois (bass-baritone) (Soloists)
      James Way (tenor) (Soloists)
      Michael Smallwood (tenor) (Soloists)
      Vocalconsort Berlin (Choir)
      Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Music Ensembles)
      World premiere
      29.01.2005

      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in coproduction with Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg and Opéra National de Montpellier.
    • EΞΟΔΟΣ I Exodos
      Radialsystem, Berlin 20. - 22. Aug 2018
      Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum 15. - 20. Sep 2018
      »What would you like to escape from? Where do you think is Utopia?« were the questions with which Sasha Waltz and the dancers entered into this project. Proceeding from personal escape wishes and longings, a process of movement was unrolled wherein the individuals coalesce to a community of shared fate. Against the backdrop of contemporary crises and times of global upheaval, their collective body describes the quest for a way out. Dance, which enables us to live a truly transcultural community and find formal solutions collectively and free of any regime, becomes in this process a medium of exploring societal questions. The choreography unfolds as a relationship of the crowd to itself and simultaneously as a questioning of its own formal frame. The dissolution of boundaries between stage and auditorium enables the public to range freely through the space and actively transform their viewpoint.

      The project builds upon its preceeding piece »Kreatur« (2017) which deals with the immediate conditions of physical existance; relationships between beings of varying strength and power who coexist within the same space. »EΞΟΔΟΣ I Exodos« deals with the breaking out of such immediate conditions – into spaces, states and perspectives that lie beyond. »Way out« is one of the meanings of the modern greek word EΞΟΔΟΣ. Further, it means escape, as well as going out into nightlife or the leaving of a stage and thus the intermediary state between play and real life. Sasha Waltz’ choreographic work searches for the overlaps and connections between these various transgressive motifs: along the limits of physical capacity, the threshold to fear, ecstasy, anarchy, utopian worlds.

      The choreography of »EΞΟΔΟΣ I Exodos« is again placed in dialogue with Urs Schönebaum’s space-creating light design. The costumes were designed by Federico Polucci. The set design was developed by Sasha Waltz in collaboration with the architect and stage designer Heike Schuppelius. The sound score was composed by Soundwalk Collective, as for »Kreatur«, in close exchange with the choreographic process. »EΞΟΔΟΣ I Exodos« is coproduced by Ruhrtriennale and created in the year of the 25th anniversary of Sasha Waltz & Guests.

      »EΞΟΔΟΣ I Exodos« is a coproduction of Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Ruhrtriennale. Made in Radialsystem.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Direction, Choreography)
      Soundwalk Collective (Sound Installation)
      Federico Polucci (Costume Design)
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Costume Design)
      Urs Schönebaum (Lighting Design)
      Heike Schuppelius (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Sergiu Matis (Repetition)
      Steffen Döring (Music Dramaturgy)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Agnes Scherer (Dramaturgy)
      Liza Alpízar Aguilar (Dance / Choreography)
      Blenard Azizaj (Dance / Choreography)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Clémentine Deluy (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Di Pretoro (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Charlotte Engelkes (Dance / Choreography)
      Tian Gao (Dance / Choreography)
      Peggy Grelat-Dupont (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Josh Johnson (Dance / Choreography)
      Lorena Justribó Manion (Dance / Choreography)
      Annapaola Leso (Dance / Choreography)
      Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Thusnelda Mercy (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Aladino Rivera Blanca (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Corey Scott-Gilbert (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Stylianos Tsatsos (Dance / Choreography)
      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests in coproduction with Ruhrtriennale. Made in Radialsystem.
    • Figure Humaine
      Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg 01. - 04. Jan 2017
      From 1st to 4th January 2017 the choreographic Installation »Figure Humaine« by Sasha Waltz with about 80 musicians, singers and the dancers of her compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests will inaugurate the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

      Due to production-related reasons there are currently no tickets available.
      Additional tickets will be available to book on 27 December at 11:00.
      Tel: +49 40 357 666 66
      http://bit.ly/swgelbphilharmonie
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Nicolas Fink (Conductor)
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      Vocalconsort Berlin (Choir)
      Luciana Mancini (Mezzosopran) (Soloists)
      Annette Walther ()
    • From...To
      Davide Camplani
      Radialsystem, Berlin 22. - 23. Dec 2009
      (no english description)
      Present cast:
      Davide Camplani (Concept, Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Sophia Sandig (Dance / Choreography)
      Yoreme Waltz (Dramaturgy)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
    • gefaltet
      Sasha Waltz
      Mark Andre
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      Salzburger Landestheater, Salzburg 27. - 29. Jan 2012
      Opéra de Lille, Lille 15. - 17. Apr 2014
      »I envisage assembling a small body of musicians and dancers in order to experiment with the notion of interstices – the »gaps« within music, the »space« within the tones.«
      (Sasha Waltz)

      »It concerns existential conditions, perhaps metaphysical ones as well – folding as a response to impulse.«
      (Mark Andre)

      The choreographic concert »gefaltet« by Sasha Waltz and Mark Andre opens Mozartwoche 2012 in Salzburg. This is the first collaboration between the French composer and the German choreographer. As their material, Sasha Waltz and Mark Andre apprehend »folding«, or convolution – a procedure in electronic music that generates an acoustic response to acoustic impulses. With »gefaltet« this principle is broadened to a dialogue between dancers and musicians. Impulses and responses of their bodies unfold and intensify interstices and thresholds, emptiness and distances.
      Together with eight dancers and four musicians, Sasha Waltz and Mark Andre investigate the interplay between classical and New Music, between sound, movement and silence.
      Selected works including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s string trio KV 563 in E flat major and compositions by Mark Andre, such as »iv 1« for solo piano and the string trios »iv 2« and »iv 8«, constitute the musical field of experiment.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Mark Andre (Composition)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Beate Borrmann (Costume Design)
      David Finn (Lighting Design)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Saju Hari (Dance / Choreography)
      Todd McQuade (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Judith Sánchez Ruíz (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Guy Ben-Ziony (Viola) (Soloists Instrumental)
      Nicholas Altstaedt (Violoncello) (Soloists Instrumental)
      Alexander Lonquich (Piano) (Soloists Instrumental)
      Davide Camplani (Rehearsal Direction)
      World premiere
      27.01.2012

      »gefaltet« is a production by Sasha Waltz & Guests, co-produced with Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie Brussels and MaerzMusik | Berliner Festspiele.
    • Gezeiten
      Sasha Waltz
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 19. - 27. Nov 2005
      Brooklyn Academy of Music , New York 03. - 06. Nov 2010
      A room where traces and vestiges of the past are evident. The last remaining place of sanctuary, the final refuge. The catastrophe outside is destroying everything, threatening the captives of a common destiny, penetrating ever deeper. With their current work »Gezeiten« Sasha Waltz and her new ensemble of sixteen dancers investigate the transformations to which Life is continually subject. Seeking an idiom which can fathom the physical and metaphysical strata, »Gezeiten« is concerned with the interrelation of destruction and renewal. Sasha Waltz takes divers aesthetic and contextual standpoints, bringing together the representational and surreal theatricality of her early pieces, where everyday objects transmute to being living dance-partners, with the abstraction and physical dynamism of her recent works. She concentrates in particular on the crises that disrupt the normal flow. With the peril from outside the captives face existential questions and terrors; deliberations regarding ownership and power; and the simultaneous dwindling and increase of compassion for the suffering of others. New regulations and structures are established. What will remain following disintegration and collapse? How do we rebuild our world - again and again? What is worth saving?
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Jonathan Bepler (Composition)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Beate Borrmann (Costume Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Matija Ferlin (Dance / Choreography)
      Gabriel Galindez Cruz (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Öhman (Dance / Choreography)
      Pinar Ömerbeyoglu (Dance / Choreography)
      Friederike Plafki (Dance / Choreography)
      Koen de Preter (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Sportelli (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Laurie Young (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Rehearsal Direction)
      World premiere
      19.11.2005
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin

      A coproduction of Sasha Waltz & Guests and Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin.
    • história (Film)
      Karsten Liske
      Radialsystem, Berlin 04. May 2007
      A young woman passed away. The funeral mourners, family and friends, meet in different places of the city. In the silence of the mourning the memories of the young woman appear and consolidate the final farewell.
      The conceptual artfilm »história« follows the life story of a young woman. The interplay of choreographical and abstract images develops a vision of the space between life and death. With »história« Karsten Liske takes his protagonist Claudia de Serpa Soares to her hometown Lisbon.
      Present cast:
      Karsten Liske (Film Direction)
    • Human Requiem
      Rundfunkchor Berlin
      Jochen Sandig
      Sasha Waltz & Guests
      Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg 29. Sep 2012
      Radialsystem, Berlin 01. - 05. May 2019
      »As far as the text is concerned, I will admit that I would gladly give up the 'German' and simply put 'human'.« (Johannes Brahms, 1867, in a letter to Carl Reinthaler, premiere conductor of »A German Requiem«)

      As part of its series »Broadening the Scope of Choral Music«, Rundfunkchor Berlin is presenting Johannes Brahms‘ »A German Requiem« (1867) in a new light: Jochen Sandig and a team of artists from the company Sasha Waltz & Guests adopt the title »human requiem« to develop a choreographic »embodiment« of the piece, engaging text, sound, bodies and space to interact with each other. As the choir is staged across the space, moving the singers as well as the audience and abolishing the division between stage and auditorium, the traditional concert experience dissolves.

      Brahms‘ requiem is not a Mass for the dead; hence, its text is non-liturgical. The requiem looks to provide solace for the living: It deals with the realization of our evanescence and the meaning of death and grief, but also with their overcoming - its gaze remains firmly set on life. In the community of those who sing and those who listen, this message becomes a space-consuming and personal experience: a »human requiem«. Jochen Sandig’s intention is to create »a very immediate experience, a form of humbleness and modesty. We don’t want anything big. We want the humans, by which I mean everyone, the choir, the director, the visitors, to let themselves be engaged.«

      Brahms’ »A German Requiem« is a core piece of the repertoire of Rundfunkchor Berlin. Their CD recording with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle won the choir and Simon Halsey the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.
      Present cast:
      Rundfunkchor Berlin (Choir)
      Jochen Sandig (Direction, Concept)
      Ilka Seifert (Dramaturgy)
      Sasha Waltz (Dramaturgy)
      Davide Camplani (Rehearsal Direction)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Rehearsal Direction)
      Sung-Uk Hwang (Set Design)
      World premiere
      11.02.2012
      Radialsystem V
      Berlin
    • Impromptus
      Sasha Waltz
      Franz Schubert
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 15. - 16. Apr 2004
      Radialsystem, Berlin 07. - 11. Aug 2019
      For the first time Sasha Waltz develops a dance piece based on the structure of a classical music composition. The music will be performed live onstage together with vocal accompaniment of four »Schubert-Lieder«. The dance like the music create in a subtle way emotional states between weightless floating and being off balance. Sasha Waltz researches in her work the existential questions of the human body with its vulnerability and beauty. Dance at its most riveting, at once unmasking, manipulating, and ultimately exalting in the innumerable aspects that make us human.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Christine Birkle (Costume Design)
      Judith Simonis ()
      Cristina Marton (Piano) (Soloists Instrumental)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      World premiere
      17.04.2004
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin

      The piece has been developed by and with the dancers Maria Marta Colusi, Clémentine Deluy, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Luc Dunberry, Michal Mualem, Claudia de Serpa Soares and Xuan Shi.

      A production of Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests. A coproduction with the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.
    • In Between (Film)
      Karsten Liske
      Kino Babylon Mitte, Berlin 28. Jun 2012
      Jerusalem. Istanbul. Rome.
      3 cities. 3 stories. 1 day.

      The focus of »In Between« is a pictorial view of the three major historical and religious sites Jerusalem, Rome and Istanbul. Three stories evolve between documentary images of the three cities.
      The film tells the story from the escape of a jewish bride through Jerusalem, takes part in the first encounter of a transsexual with her mother in Istanbul and follows the sentimental dream of an old man's love in Rome.
      »In Between« is a poetic narrative between Orient and Occident, between the identity of a man and of woman, between tradition and modernity, between dream and reality.
      Using lyrical documentary images, the film draws a sensitive portrait of the three cities in the course of a day.
      Present cast:
      Karsten Liske (Film Direction)
      »In Between« was realized in cooperation with the Goethe Institute in Rome, Goethe Institute in Tel Aviv, Goethe Institute Istanbul, sasha waltz & guests and Seven Years Film.
    • In C
      Sasha Waltz & Guests
      Terry Riley
      Radialsystem, Berlin 06. Mar 2021
      Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emillia 05. May 2023
      Il Teatro Grande, Brescia 09. May 2023
      In 2021, the dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests began an innovative artistic process that results in the continuous production of both digital and live formats. Terry Riley’s »In C« (1964) forms the musical foundation of this, an open composition that was revolutionary at the time and is generally considered the first piece of minimalist music. Based on this milestone of music history, Sasha Waltz and her dancers developed choreographic material that follows a similarly variable structure and is deliberately designed not to be a finished stage piece. In March 2021 »In C« received its world premiere on a livestream from the radialsystem in Berlin to the sound of a recording by »Bang on a Can« and has since been performed live (inter-)nationally.

      »In C« is an experimental, constantly evolving process that once again reconceives and refines Sasha Waltz & Guests’ long-standing approach as well as the dialogue between dance, music and space, both digitally and in real life. At the same time, it explores the potential of flexible artistic production in times of pandemic and of artistic exchange, even across national borders. F.e. the individual movement phrases have also been recorded as video tutorials, which allows dancers to learn the choreographic material digitally and remotely.

      »The score of »In C« consists of fifty-three musical phrases and reads like stage directions for musicians. The thought of translating these detailed instructions into dance through a choreographic exploration of the music appealed to me. The result is an experimental system of fifty-three choreographic figures for a structured improvisation with clear rules and laws. The length of the piece remains variable, as does the number of musicians and dancers. »In C« is also a very democratic score, because it gives freedom to the individual dancer within the ensemble: It is a piece about being part of a group as an individual rather than being an individual within a group. »In C« is a dynamic, modular system that remains adaptable in times of pandemic. It is an exciting challenge to be able to develop so many different variations and formats from it in the future, both for professional dancers and, in the long term, for children and amateurs.«
      Sasha Waltz
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Jasmin Lepore (Costume Design)
      Olaf Danilsen (Lighting Design)
      Jochen Sandig (Concept, Dramaturgy)
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests. Made in Radialsystem.
    • In C - Marler Partitur
      Stadt / City, Marl 10. - 11. Sep 2022
      On September 11th and 12th the city of Marl in North Rhine-Westphalia itself will become a stage and protagonist. The German choreographer Sasha Waltz with »In C – Marler Partitur« developed a special project that aims to incorporate the town’s architecture and population. Over 100 non-professional dancers together with professional dancers from the region over the past months have studied and rehearsed the choreographic figures of »In C« in different groups. On the second weekend in September, these groups of citizens will perform »In C – Marler Partitur« on various sites in the city, take the audiences with them and slowly spiral to the center of the city, where at the end of the second day, a performance with all participants and dancers of the company Sasha Waltz & Guests can be experienced.

      The project was initiated by a group of citizens of Marl, that for years have been committed to the preservation of Marl’s extraordinary architecture: “We want to connect the city's cultural heritage, Marl's unique buildings from the 1960s and 1970s, and make them accessible to a new generation.” Through the network of the New Patrons they became the New Patrons of Marl and were able to engage the choreographer Sasha Waltz to develop a project, that will use the means of dance to bring to life the cultural heritage of the city of Marl.

      The Gesellschaft der Neuen Auftraggeber (New Patrons) provides the logistical infrastructure and supports citizens, artists, and cooperation partners in commissioning, financing, and realizing projects and new works of art. The fruits of these collaborative efforts are non-commercial, public, and non-profit cultural assets.
      »In C – Marler Partitur« is a project by Sasha Waltz for the city of Marl in collaboration with the Skulpturenmuseum Marl, developed in the frame of the Initiative der Neuen Auftraggeber. The project is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien. Further sponsors are the city of Marl, the Kluth-Stiftung Jugend und Kultur and Evonik.
    • insideout
      Sasha Waltz
      Helmut List Halle, Graz 18. - 21. Sep 2003
      Parc des Expositions Chateaublanc, Avignon 13. - 18. Jul 2007
      Realizing »insideout« is something, Sasha Waltz has been dreaming of for a long while. It’s already been for ten years she’s been thinking about a play, which can be approached by the spectator in a personal way, being free to move around, just like in an art exhibition. In addition to that it is important to her to focus again on the single dancer, after recently having produced big group choreographies like »Körper« or »noBody«.
      It was the initiative of this year’s Europe Culture Capital Graz, which brought her to develop the interdisciplinary production »insideout« together with twenty actors and ten musicians from Asia, Europe, North- and South America. Accordingly to the personal life-stories of the dancers and actors the play deals with social and individual values, life-styles and status symbols. What do we need to develop our identities? What do origin, family and history still mean today? The single multilayered personalities create a multiply facetted kaleidoscope. The cultural scientist and co-initiator Karl Stocker edited a book related to the production, containing Interviews with the members of the ensemble, sociological theses by Baudrillard, Beck, Bourdieu and others.
      In her first dramatic musical work the composer Rebecca Saunders integrates both single solo, duets and trios for ten musicians, distributed on stage, and mechanical music into a multilayered composition. In addition the video artist Philip Bußmann creates associative visual perceptions through his projections. Sasha Waltz continues a long lasting cooperation with set designer Thomas Schenk and light designer Martin Hauk. Living sculptures, animated objects, an intimate atmosphere between audience and actors, as well as coinciding simultaneous actions, pictures and sounds are characteristic for this performance.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Rebecca Saunders (Composition)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Philip Bussmann (Video)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Charlotte Engelkes (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Öhman (Dance / Choreography)
      Manuel Alfonso Pérez Torres (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Laurie Young (Dance / Choreography)
      Matan Zamir (Dance / Choreography)
      Sigal Zouk-Harder (Dance / Choreography)
      Mikel Arístegui (Dance / Choreography)
      Ensemble Musikfabrik (Music Ensembles)
      World premiere
      19.09.2003
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin

      A production of Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests in co-production with Graz 2003 – Kulturhauptstadt Europas and sterischerherbst. Supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes. musikFabrik is supported by the prime minister of North-Rhine Westphalia.
    • Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)
      Wolfgang Rihm
      Sasha Waltz & Guests
      Ensemble Modern
      Schauspiel-Frankfurt, Frankfurt a. M. 07. - 08. May 2008
      Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin 27. - 30. Nov 2014
      Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)
      Wolfgang Rihm has named the current version of his composition »Jagden und Formen« »Zustand 2008«. This is a piece that, having appeared in a number of variants, spaces and constellations as »Werklandschaft«(Wolfgang Rihm) - Work Landscape, has wended a winding course. »Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)« is as well an apt title for the choreographic work that Sasha Waltz is developing together with her company Sasha Waltz & Guests and Ensemble Modern to accompany this piece.

      Sasha Waltz & Guests and Ensemble Modern
      Two outstanding ensembles, the one from Music the other Dance, consisting of first-rate soloists come together, first in Frankfurt and then Berlin. The two “clusters” have much in common: Institutional independence, and the uncompromising searching for new modes of artistic expression outside the conventional. The present music-choreography project from Ensemble Modern and Sasha Waltz & Guests was divided into a number of phases. Subsequent to an initial meeting between Wolfgang Rihm and Sasha Waltz a further development of the score by the composer followed. On this basis the two ensembles embarked on an intensive dialogue. At the Frankfurter Positionen the product of this work process, to be developed further still in the future, will be presented. Wolfgang Rihm’s highly energetic and complex music, which in itself seems to describe a variety of bodily formations and elementary physical states, finds its counterpart in the choreography of the dancers and musicians.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Franck Ollu (Musical Direction)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Beate Borrmann (Costumes)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Renate Graziadei (Dance / Choreography)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Gabriel Galindez Cruz (Dance / Choreography)
      Maya Gomez (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Rehearsal Direction)
      Ensemble Modern (Music Ensembles)
      World premiere
      07.05.2008

      A project from Sasha Waltz & Guests and Ensemble Modern, initiated and supported by the BHF-Bank-Stiftung in the context of "Frankfurter Positionen 2008" and by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. The performances in Berlin are supported by Freunden des Ensemble Modern e.V. and Radial Stiftung.
      Sasha Waltz & Guests is supported by Hauptstadtkultufonds.
      Ensemble Modern is supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the city of Frankfurt am Main and the Deutsche Ensemble Akademie e.V. through the federal state of Hessen, the GEMA-Stiftung and the GVL. hr2-kultur is a media partner of Ensemble Modern. The musicians of Ensemble Modern thank the Aventis Foundation for financing a seat in their Ensemble.
    • Körper
      Sasha Waltz
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 20. - 21. Jan 2000
      Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes 08. Dec 2019
      Life’s substance can be pulled this way and that, thrown about, piled up and dissected. Through a sober recognition of the body’s materiality, this piece tries to understand the fundamental split imposed on us by our physical nature. It interrogates cultural templates for movement, brutal forms of pleasure, enhanced performance and cosmetic improvement: the body regarded as a resource. Why do we treat our fragility with such severity? Why do our accounts of our own bodies always bypass what we actually feel? Naked to the skeleton, to the kidneys, the piece submits the body to an even more radical undressing: the removal of the names which afflict and conceal it at every turn. Twisting and turning the body, taking it down wrong paths, over and over again this choreography begins the work of a genuine making-visible. The body appears as something never before seen.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Hans Peter Kuhn (Sound Installation)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Heike Schuppelius (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Valentin Gallé (Lighting Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Rehearsal Direction)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Clémentine Deluy (Dance / Choreography)
      Lisa Densem (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Grayson Millwood (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Niannian Zhou (Dance / Choreography)
      World premiere
      22.01.2000
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin

      A production of Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests, a coproduction with Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.
    • Kreatur
      Sasha Waltz & Guests
      Radialsystem, Berlin 09. - 18. Jun 2017
      Opera Krakowska, Krakau 21. - 22. Feb 2023
      For »Kreatur« Sasha Waltz with her 14 dancers examines the phenomena of existence against the background of a disrupted society: power and a lack of power, dominance and weakness, freedom and control, community and isolation.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Iris van Herpen (Costume Design)
      Urs Schönebaum (Lighting Design)
      Soundwalk Collective (Sound Installation)
      Davide Di Pretoro (Repetition)
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests in coproduction with Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Opéra de Dijon. Made in Radialsystem.
    • Live in Concert
      Bang on a Can All-Stars
      Radialsystem, Berlin 11. Dec 2021
      New York's electric »Bang on a Can All-Stars« perform a high-octane set of classic selections and new work. The hour-long set features signature works by »Bang on a Can« co-founding composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, American legend Meredith Monk, the late UK composer Steve Martland, and the premiere of a new work by Berlin-based American composer Nick Dunston.

      Concert program:
      David Lang »sunray«
      Michael Gordon »Gene takes a drink«
      Nick Dunston »Fainting is Down, Whooshing is up«
      Julia Wolfe »Believing«
      Meredith Monk »Spaceship«
      Steve Martland »Horses of Instruction«

      Bang on a Can All-Stars
      Bass: Robert Black
      Piano and Keyboard: Vicky Chow
      Percussion: David Cossin
      Cello: Arlen Hlusko
      Guitar: Mark Stewart
      Clarinet and Saxophon: Ken Thomson
      Sound Design: Andrew Cotton

      Founded in 1987 by composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, Bang on a Can has been creating an international community dedicated to innovative music, and has grown from a one-day New York-based Marathon concert to a multi-faceted performing arts organization with a broad range of year-round international activities. Formed out of this group in 1992, the Bang on a Can All-Stars are recognized worldwide for their ultra-dynamic live performances and recordings of today’s most innovative music. Freely crossing the boundaries between classical, jazz, rock, world and experimental music, this six-member amplified ensemble has consistently forged a category-defying identity. With a massive repertoire of works written specifically for the group’s distinctive instrumentation and style of performance, the All-Stars have become a genre in their own right, performing each year throughout the U.S. and internationally.

      »Believing« by Julia Wolfe was commissioned by NPS Dutch Radio for the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
      »Fainting is Down, Whooshing is Up« by Nick Dunston was commissioned with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation.
      The concert is part of »Wunderbar Together«, a collaborative initiative funded by the German Foreign Office and realised by the Goethe-Institut.
      An event by Sasha Waltz & Guests.
    • Lohengrin Dreams
      Radialsystem, Berlin 29. Feb - 01. Mar 2020
      Sasha Waltz & Guests brings the new piece by Swedish Performance artist Charlotte Engelkes for the German premiere to Berlin.

      With three dancers, two acrobats and one operasinger, Engelkes - this time together with choreographer Ossi Niskala - continues her exploration of Richard Wagner's operaworld - playful, serious and funny. »Lohengrin Dreams« is a piece about standing up for your dreams, then giving in to pressure and finally finding yourself asking the one question you have sworn never to ask: »Where do you come from?« Will the swanborne hero ever show up? And from where? Could popping the question rather connect us than separate us?

      Engelkes and her ensemble in »Lohengrin Dreams« deal with the struggle between belief and doubt, fairytale and realism, wrapped in wondrous and quaint esthetics, to new written music by sound designer Willy Bopp after Richard Wagner's opera »Lohengrin«.

      After Engelkes' former explorations into the world of Wagner's operas and his infamous heroines, »Miss Very Wagner« (presented 2006 at the radialsystem), »Very Wagner Hero Hour«, »All is Divine«, »Flying Dutchmen« and »THE GOLD«, it is now time for »Lohengrin Dreams«.
      Present cast:
      Charlotte Engelkes (Concept / Direction)
      Ossi Niskala (Concept, Choreography)
      Willi Bopp (Sound)
      Karl Svensson (Set Design)
      Anna Ardelius (Costume Design)
      Karl Svensson (Lighting Design)
      Magnus Bjoeru (Dance / Acrobatics)
      Ivonne Fuchs (Soloists)
      Ageliki Gouvi (Dance / Choreography)
      Anthony Lomuljo (Dance / Choreography)
      Henrietta Wallberg (Dance / Choreography)
      Simon Wiborn (Dance / Acrobatics)
      A co-production between Astarte, Norrlandsoperan, Regionteatern Blekinge Kronoberg, Spira Smålands Musik & Teater and Sasha Waltz & Guests. With support from The Swedish Art council and The City of Stockholm.
    • Matsukaze
      Sasha Waltz
      Toshio Hosokawa
      Hannah Dübgen
      Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brüssel 03. - 11. May 2011
      New Natonal Theater, Tokyo 16. - 18. Feb 2018
      »Matsukaze« is among the best-loved classics of Japanese Nô Theatre. The sisters Matsukaze and Murasame are each in love with the same man who does not return from a journey. Their longings however remain unrequited in this life. Years after death the sisters’ spirits revisit this world in tireless pursuit of their beloved.
      With the world première of »Matsukaze« Sasha Waltz follows up on her opera productions »Medea« and »Dido & Aeneas« which revolve around the fates of two female figures from ancient times. By way of her self-created choreographic opera Sasha Waltz has expanded the realm of Music Theatre, employing theatrical methods derived from Dance to fashion a new mix of dance, song and music.
      Outstanding contemporary Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa wrote the music to the reworked libretto of the Nô Theatre classic »Matsukaze«. Musical direction is by renowned conductor Pablo Heras-Casado. Together with soloists Barbara Hannigan and Charlotte Hellekant extraordinary singers unite once more with dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Vocalconsort Berlin on the opera stage.
      Alongside its long-standing partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg with whom the company previously jointly produced »Dido & Aeneas« and »Medea«, Sasha Waltz & Guests is as well working in conjunction with the Opera La Monnaie in Brussels and the Berliner Staatsoper. For the first time the Polish National Opera will join Sasha Waltz & Guests in a production as a coproducer.
      Present cast:
      David Robert Coleman (Musical Direction)
      Pia Maier Schriever (Set Design)
      Chiharu Shiota (Set Design)
      Christine Birkle (Costume Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Delphine Gaborit (Dance / Choreography)
      Florencia Lamarca (Dance / Choreography)
      Sergiu Matis (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Junko Wada (Dance / Choreography)
      Niannian Zhou (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Rehearsal Direction)
      Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
      Ilse Eerens (soprano) (Soloists)
      Charlotte Hellekant (Mezzo-soprano) (Soloists)
      Grigory Shkapura (bass) (Soloists)
      Jun Hagiwara (baritone) ()
      World premiere
      03.05.2011
      Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
      Brussels

      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests commissioned by the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in coproduction with Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera and in cooperation with Berliner Staatsoper.
      The production »Matsukaze« is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation.
      Made in Radialsystem®
    • MCO Nacht
      Mahler Chamber Orchestra
      Sasha Waltz & Guests
      Radialsystem, Berlin 09. Jun 2012
      Radialsystem, Berlin 03. May 2013
      (no english description)
    • Medea
      Pascal Dusapin
      Sasha Waltz
      Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg 23. - 27. May 2007
      Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris 09. - 10. Nov 2012
      After her world-acclaimed, debut opera production of 2005, »Dido & Aeneas« by Henry Purcell, the choreographer Sasha Waltz turned in 2007 her attention to the tragedy Medea.
      At centre of her work are previous exegeses of materials, such as contemporary interpretations that contrast with the Antique image which painted Medea as Fury, revenger and child-murderer. Christa Wolf’s Novel »Medea. Stimmen« (Medea. Voices) and Heiner Müller’s »Medeamaterial« provide important impulses. Sasha Waltz appraises the feminine power of the healer and the mother – thus in her work the creative and destructive powers of the character are situated in pronounced tension.
      Pascal Dusapin’s 1991 composition »Medeamaterial« with texts by Heiner Müller, reworked in cooperation with the Akademie für Alte Musik and the Vocalconsort Berlin, is the basis for this choreographic-musical examination of the Medea myth. Marcus Creed is musical director; the solo part of Medea is played by renowned coloratura soprano Caroline Stein. The exploration of these mythic materials allows the choreographer to engage with all her artistic capabilities. The world of antiquity is made palpable by way of expansive group formations, the archaic vocabulary of images melds with that of the movement.
      Sasha Waltz in working with a large collective has found happy correspondence with the music of Pascal Dusapin who has the coloratura soprano accompanied by a chorus (from vocal quartet up to twenty singers), as partner, echo and reflection, almost throughout his opera. The contemporary composer Pascal Dusapin is very much involved with Antique Early Music: He wrote his opera »Medeamaterial« for the noted Baroque Orchestra de La Chapelle Royale and the Collegium Vocale Gent.
      Present cast:
      Pascal Dusapin (Composition)
      Marcus Creed (Musical Direction)
      Pia Maier Schriever (Set Design)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Heike Schuppelius (Set Design)
      Christine Birkle (Costume Design)
      Thilo Reuther (Lighting Design)
      Caroline Stein (Soprano) ()
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Lisa Densem (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Sportelli (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Gabriel Galindez Cruz (Dance / Choreography)
      Florencia Lamarca (Dance / Choreography)
      Liza Alpízar Aguilar (Dance / Choreography)
      László Sandig (Dance / Choreography)
      Sophia Sandig (Dance / Choreography)
      Renate Graziadei (Dance / Choreography)
      World Première
      23.5.2007
      Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg

      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests in cooperation with the the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg under the auspices of the European Culture Capital Luxembourg 2007, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin. Sasha Waltz & Guests is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Land Berlin.
    • Métamorphoses
      Sasha Waltz
      Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
      Radialsystem, Berlin 19. - 21. Nov 2010
      Teatro Comunale, Ferrara 21. Feb 2014
      Sasha Waltz & Guests and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop constitute a potent artistic alliance. In 2009, as part of Sasha Waltz’s »Dialoge« series, the two ensembles, in collaboration with Vocalconsort Berlin, created the artistic inauguration of the Neues Museum (New Museum) by David Chipperfield, enchanting thousands of viewers.

      »Metamorphoses« consists of six self-contained »miniatures« - three duets and three group pieces, to works by Ruth Wiesenfeld, Iannis Xenakis, Georg Friedrich Haas and György Ligeti - each a discourse with the architecture of the Neues Museum.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Martin Hauk (Set Design)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Liza Alpízar Aguilar (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Delphine Gaborit (Dance / Choreography)
      Gabriel Galindez Cruz (Dance / Choreography)
      Renate Graziadei (Dance / Choreography)
      Mamajeang Kim (Dance / Choreography)
      Florencia Lamarca (Dance / Choreography)
      Sergiu Matis (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Niannian Zhou (Dance / Choreography)
      Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop (Music Ensembles)
      Renate Graziadei (Rehearsal Direction)
      World premiere
      19.11.2010
      Radialsystem V
      Berlin

      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests.
      Made in RADIALSYSTEM®.
      Supported by RADIALSTIFTUNG.
    • MusicTANZ - Carmen
      Berliner Philharmoniker
      Sasha Waltz
      Arena, Berlin 25. - 28. May 2012
      Again the yearly dance project in the context of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Education-Programm was an experience to be remembered. The young dancers have been, during intensive weeks of rehearsal with the company Sasha Waltz & Guests, introduced to the drama and opera »Carmen«.
      The Carmen Suite by Rodion Shchedrin is the musical basis of this project in the performance by the young dancers, the team of Sasha Waltz and the Berliner Philharmoniker under the musical direction of Sir Simon Rattle.
      The fundamental aim of the Education Programme is to make the activities and music of the Berlin Philharmonic accessible to as wide an audience as possible. It has facilitated an introduction for people from all kinds of different educational and social backgrounds to a new world of sound and musical forms, and created an arena to expand and develop their individual abilities. To date, thousands of children and teenagers have been able to discover, play and listen to music in the education workshops. Above all the Education-Project wants to reach school children of all ages and from all districts throughout Berlin. Together with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic, composers and artists from other disciplines, young students explore the world of music through the various projects. Each project is individually tailored to its respective repertoire and, through a creative approach, provides participants with an entrée into the world of music. The projects, which encompass a number of different art forms, are primarily intended for schoolchildren and are moderated by music animators, members of the orchestra and artists from various disciplines. A culminating public presentation, either in- or outside of the Philharmonie, is an integral element to most of the projects, allowing participants to share their new experiences with others.
      In order to enhance the sustainability of its work, the Education Department works over a longer period together with several schools as well as with cultural and social institutions in Berlin, also offering regular workshops for multiplicators. The goal here is to create a number of different links by means of music-related projects: between the Philharmonie and various Berlin districts and social groups as well as between the generations.
      World premiere
      15.05.2012
      Arena Berlin
    • My Dearest My Fairest
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
      Joanna Dudley
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 20. May 2000
      Théâtre Des Bouffes Du Nord, Paris 04. - 08. Jan 2011
      The two lovers for the evening are Juan and Joanna, who share a common passion: their toys. Together they will sing, play, whistle and translate (from French sign language) a pocket history of the music of love. They will both play their favourite instruments, including a toy piano, kazoo, music boxes, accordion, cow’s bells, carillon, harmonium, a toy car, a yellow rabbit and a red bear. Purcell’s Chaconnes and love songs are transformed, like the 50s hit »Historia de un amor«, karaoke, recipes for sauce, arias from Italian opera and Hollywood’s »Good Night Irene«. Inspired by Johanna Dudley’s score for »The rest of you«, this musical theatre evening was first performed at the Berlin Theatertreffen and was subsequently invited to the Barossa Music Festival in Australia, where it received the Australian Critics’ Prize for the most innovative performance in 2000.
      World premiere
      01.12.2000

      A production of Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and Joanna Dudley presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests
    • Na Zemlje
      Sasha Waltz
      Sophiensaele, Berlin 11. - 21. Nov 1998
      Théâtre de la Ville, Paris 04. - 07. Apr 2001
      Na Zemlje (engl.: On Earth) is the title of this German-Russian coproduction with Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Moscow based theatre School for Dramatic Arts of Anatoly Vasiliev and the Class for Expressive Movement directed by Gennadij Abramov. Six dancers of the Class and six dancers
      of Sasha Waltz’s company are involved in the production.
      The meeting of two different cultures played an integral role in the creative process of this piece. In contrast with most of her former work where she dealt with urban life, in Na Zemlje she researches the relationship between nature and human beings. Fighting, domination, sacrifice and healing are the main themes of the choreography.
      During the first three weeks of rehearsal the company worked on the estate of K. S. Stanislavskij in Ljubimovka. Situated on the rural outskirts of Moscow this estate was used by the actors of the Moscow Art Theatre during the rehearsel period of A. P. Chekhov’s première of »The Seagull«. This was also the setting where »The Cherry Orchard« was written. Today the pastoral times of the past have disintegrated due to the destruction of nature and the unpredictability and hardship in Russia. The residency at Ljubimovka and the atmosphere of the pictures by Pieter Bruegel stimulated this choreographic work of Sasha Waltz.

      The music compositions for the piece are by Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola as are the arrangements of the Russian folk song. Like in »Zweiland« the dancers sing and play themselves.
      World premiere
      11.11.1998
      Sophiensæle Berlin

      Na Zemlje is a production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in cooperation with the School for Dramatic Art, Moscow and sophiensæle Berlin. In coproduction with Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Goethe-Institutes Moscow, Munich and Theatre Festival Basel 1999. With friendly support of Culturcommittee of the government of the city of Moscow and Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Berlin. With support by the Stanislavskij Charitiy Foundation. Sponsoring »Wella«.
    • noBody
      Sasha Waltz
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 22. Feb 2002
      Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin 02. - 05. Apr 2020
      »noBody« completes a choreographic cycle of three pieces about humans and their bodies which Sasha Waltz created in the years around the turn of the millennium. In her piece »Körper«, she investigated the materiality of the human being, relating the dancers' bodies to architecture, science and history. »S« searches for the origin of life, explores eros and sensibility. »noBody« deals with metaphysical levels to human existence. It addresses the absence of the body and confronts us with feelings aroused by our realisation of being mortal. What does being human mean beyond having a body? Which part of us is immortal? In »noBody«, the choreographer and 23 dancers face the challenge of visualizing the non-physical through the physical.

      The dancers Luc Dunberry, Sasa Queliz and Junko Wada are part of the original cast from 2002.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Direction, Choreography)
      Hans Peter Kuhn (Composition)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Rehearsal Direction)
      Luc Dunberry (Rehearsal Direction)
      Michal Mualem (Rehearsal Direction)
      Ayaka Azechi (Dance)
      Blenard Azizaj (Dance)
      Zaida Ballesteros Pareja (Dance)
      Fernando Balsera Pita (Dance)
      Claudia Catarzi (Dance)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance)
      Alessandra Defazio (Dance)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Yuya Fujinami (Dance)
      Eva Georgitsopoulou (Dance)
      Maya Gomez (Dance)
      Dmytro Grynov (Dance)
      Amr Karkout (Dance)
      Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (Dance)
      Gyung Moo Kim (Dance)
      Sean Nederlof (Dance)
      Sofia Pintzou (Dance)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance)
      Joel Suárez Gómez (Dance)
      Wibke Storkan (Dance)
      Stylianos Tsatsos (Dance)
      Junko Wada (Dance / Choreography)
      World premiere
      23.02.2002
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin

      A production of Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests in coproduction with the Festival d’Avignon. With the friendly assistance of Folkwang-Hochschule Essen.
    • Orfeo
      Sasha Waltz
      Claudio Monteverdi
      De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam 03. - 06. Sep 2014
      Teatro Real, Madrid 20. - 24. Nov 2022
      Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« is considered to be the first opera and a masterpiece of European musical history. Certainly, this setting to music of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is the earliest surviving »Favola in musica«, which at its première in 1607 apprehended for the first time instrumental music, song, dance and theatre as a unit.
      For Sasha Waltz, »Orfeo« brings together different strands from previous creations, and connects soloists from her arrangements of contemporary pieces with actors from the world of ancient music.
      Her version of Henry Purcell’s baroque opera »Dido & Aeneas« signaled the start of a new chapter in her artistic work. She enhanced the media of musical theatre through the theatricality of dance and created a new genre for the opera, a fusion of dance song and music: the choreographic opera. This new genre continued its development as Sasha Waltz worked on the compositions »Medea« (Dusapin, 2007), »Roméo & Juliette« (Berlioz, 2007), »Passion« (Dusapin, 2010) and »Matsukaze« (Hosokawa, 2011).
      After first encountering the myth of Orpheus in Pascal Dusapin‘s chamber opera »Passion«, Sasha Waltz returns to the roots of baroque music and not only involves the choir and the soloists in the movement on stage, but also draws the dancers into the musical performance.
      For her »Orfeo«, Sasha Waltz will once more work together with director Pablo Heras-Casado and the vocal soloists Charlotte Hellekant and Georg Nigl. She will also continue her long running partnership with the Vocalconsort Berlin. This project will also bring together the company Sasha Waltz & Guests with the Freiburger BarockConsort – the Freiburger Barockorchester’s chamber group – for their first ever collaboration. The stage will be designed by Alexander Schwarz, member of David Chipperfield Architects, Berlin.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Direction, Choreography)
      Leonardo García Alarcón (Conductor)
      Alexander Schwarz (Set Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Tapio Snellman (Video)
      Georg Nigl (Bariton) (Soloists)
      Julie Roset (soprano) (Soloists)
      Charlotte Hellekant (Mezzo-soprano) (Soloists)
      Alex Rosen (Bass) (Soloists)
      Konstantin Wolff (Bass-Bariton) (Soloists)
      Luciana Mancini (Mezzosopran) (Soloists)
      Julián Millán (Bariton) (Soloists)
      Cécile Kempenaers (Soprano) (Soloists)
      Leandro Marziotte (Countertenor) (Soloists)
      Hans Wijers (Bariton) (Soloists)
      Florian Feth (Tenor) (Soloists)
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      Vocalconsort Berlin (Choir)
      Freiburger BarockConsort (Music Ensembles)
      World Premiere
      03.09.2014
      Dutch National Opera
      Amsterdam

      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in coproduction with the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Bergen International Festival and Opéra de Lille.
      »Orfeo« is supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. Made in Radialsystem®
    • Passion
      Pascal Dusapin
      Sasha Waltz
      Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris 06. - 10. Oct 2010
      Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brüssel 30. Aug - 05. Sep 2012
      Following on from »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« and »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) Sasha Waltz is with »Passion« again developing a choreographic opera. Like »Medea« a contemporary composition by Frenchman Pascal Dusapin serves as the fundament. The nucleus of Sasha Waltz’s choreography is the solo singers Barbara Hannigan and Georg Nigl, complemented figuratively by a small group of dancers.

      Pascal Dusapin’s »Passion« is a musical engagement with the Orpheus myth. Claudio Monteverdi’s operatic setting is for Dusapin at centre. For the most part he relates the myth through Eurydice’s eyes.
      Dramaturgically the myth describes the treatment. The staging and lighting indicate the boundaries between worlds. In course of the performance the players on stage, pass through various membranes separating the world of the living (»Reality«) from the hidden world (the »Underworld«).
      The title role is sung by the magnificent Barbara Hannigan, her partner being her peer Georg Nigl. The Vocalconsort Berlin constitutes the chorus, while Ensemble Modern under direction of Franck Ollu with whom the compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests realised Wolfgang Rihm’s »Jagden und Formen« provides the music. The libretto is in Italian.
      The composition was commissioned by the Festival d´Aix-en-Provence 2008. Sasha Waltz’s choreographic opera was premièred in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
      on October 6th, 2010.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Pascal Dusapin (Composition)
      Franck Ollu (Musical Direction)
      Hussein Chalayan (Costume Design)
      Thilo Reuther (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Thilo Reuther (Lighting Design)
      Georg Nigl (Bariton) ()
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Xuan Shi (Dance / Choreography)
      Niannian Zhou (Dance / Choreography)
      Vocalconsort Berlin (Vocal Ensembles)
      Ensemble Modern (Music Ensembles)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Rehearsal Direction)
      World Premiere
      06.10.2010
      Théâtre des Champs Elysées
      Paris

      A production by Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris and Sasha Waltz & Guests in coproduction with Opéra de Lille. Made in Radialsystem®
    • Paulinchen - Allein zu Haus
      Sasha Waltz
      Tacheles, Berlin 03. - 08. May 1994
      Theater im Pumpenhaus, Münster 13. - 14. Jul 1996
      World premiere
      1994
      Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin
    • precarity positions
      Todd McQuade
      Radialsystem, Berlin 19. - 20. Dec 2015
      precarity positions is a performance of durability. The durability of the performers' body, the durability of bodies of sculpture, and of the promise they contain. Situated within the scene of a contemporary art gallery, the subjects in precarity positions contend with the appreciating and depreciating values that they bear. With time, stable positions become fluid, the fluids run off, and precarity positions leaves its audience to weigh what remains.

      by Todd McQuade
      Sound-Codesign: Max Hershenow
      Present cast:
      Todd McQuade (Dance / Choreography)
      precarity positions was developed at UCLA and PAM Residencies in Los Angeles.
    • rauschen
      Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin 07. - 10. Mar 2019
      Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin 16. - 18. Dec 2020
      Following her last two projects – »Kreatur« and »Exodos«, which plumbed timeless, in ways archaic, levels of human existence and social interaction – in her latest piece from 2019, Sasha Waltz focuses on life in the present, which is embedded within artificial structures. »rauschen« deals with a society that inhabits a perfect environment, but has lost touch with the world, and is gaining a new dimension against the backdrop of our current situation of social distancing and a yet increased shift towards the digital.
      One of the main restrictions for the movement of the twelve dancers were a prohibition or extreme limitation of real physical contact between the dancers. George Lucas’ dystopian science fiction movie »THX 1138«, depicting our current technologized state of life almost prophetically in 1967, served as one important source of inspiration during the creation of »rauschen«. The main questions here included: What language of movement results from conditions in which mind and body are inextricably entwined with technology? What position do we find ourselves in, surrounded by an overabundance of comforts that are simultaneously a means of control? What is the horizon of a globally networked life that has simultaneously forgotten the world? The semicircular stage area can thus be understood as a call to interrogate and explore anew our own inner panoramas. The slightly modified choreography leads to a process of revelation, in which the piece’s visual and dance-oriented languages are seized and transformed by a subversive power.
      »rauschen« is a collaboration with lighting designer David Finn, who has mainly worked with Sasha Waltz on her large-scale opera productions, and whose lively spheres of light play across the perfectly white stage. The costumes were designed by Bernd Skodzig, whose creations have accompanied Sasha Waltz’s choreographic production for many years now.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Direction, Choreography)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      David Finn (Lighting Design)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Repetition)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Agnes Scherer (Dramaturgy)
      Blenard Azizaj (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Lorena Justribó Manion (Dance / Choreography)
      Annapaola Leso (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Aladino Rivera Blanca (Dance / Choreography)
      László Sandig (Dance / Choreography)
      Corey Scott-Gilbert (Dance / Choreography)
      Stylianos Tsatsos (Dance / Choreography)
      Peggy Grelat-Dupont (Dance / Choreography)
      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests in co-production with the Volksbühne Berlin.
      Made in Radialsystem.
    • remains
      Radialsystem, Berlin 12. - 15. Mar 2020
      Radialsystem, Berlin 25. - 28. Mar 2022
      Bodies in space over time. We are present. We are present in this room. But we are also present together in this time. What traces have we / will we leave behind? In his German debut commissioned by Sasha Waltz & Guests, the American performer, author, and director Andrew Schneider and nine dancers of the compagnie embark on a research journey into the simultaneously scientific and mystical fields of quantum entanglement and human entanglement. How do quantum entanglements affect the energy between two human beings? Do ghostly events inscribe themselves in the body from afar? Do they have lasting effects on our togetherness? Is there an explanation for how we ended up right here and now? And can invisible forces be experienced?
      Andrew Schneider works at the intersection of experience and technology. He is not interested in technology for itself, but in how technology can be used to give audiences experiences that they’ve never before had.
      Present cast:
      Andrew Schneider (Direction / Choreography / Concept / Set Design / Sound / Video)
      Jasmin Lepore (Costume Design)
      Yi Zhao (Lighting Design)
      Andrew Schneider (Lighting Design)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Rehearsal Direction)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Ageliki Gouvi (Dance / Choreography)
      Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Joel Suárez Gómez (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Stylianos Tsatsos (Dance / Choreography)
      A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests. Made in radialsystem.
    • Roméo et Juliette
      Sasha Waltz
      Hector Berlioz
      Opéra National de Paris, Paris 05. - 20. Oct 2007
      Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin 06. - 10. Sep 2018
      Sasha Waltz’ 2007 production of »Roméo et Juliette« for the Opéra National de Paris was the Berlin choreographer’s third work for the opera stage after »Dido & Aeneas« and »Medea« (2007), new versions of which she later produced for Milan and Berlin. Inspired by Berlioz’ theatre music, her choreography explores the interplay of love and death and presents a tragic fate that still allows for hope. For their respective families the sacrifice of the young lovers means the chance of a new beginning: »The dance of death becomes a dance of life.«
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Thomas Søndergard (Musical Direction)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      David Finn (Lighting Design)
      Pia Maier Schriever (Set Design)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Renate Graziadei (Rehearsal Direction)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Rehearsal Direction)
      Luc Dunberry (Rehearsal Direction)
      Ronnita Miller (Mezzo-soprano) (Soloists)
      Thomas Blondelle (Tenor) (Soloists)
      Byung Gil Kim (Soloists)
      Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Choir)
      Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchestra)
      Ludmila Pagliero (Soloists)
      Germain Louvet (Soloists)
      Alessio Carbone (Soloists)
      Ayaka Azechi (Dance / Choreography)
      Annapaola Leso (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Lorena Justribó Manion (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (Dance / Choreography)
      Maya Gomez (Dance / Choreography)
      Emmanouela Dolianiti (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Di Pretoro (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Jared Marks (Dance / Choreography)
      Antonios Vais (Dance / Choreography)
      Aladino Rivera Blanca (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Kristian Refslund (Dance / Choreography)
      Gyung Moo Kim (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      World premiere
      05.10.2007
      Opéra Bastille
      Paris
    • S
      Sasha Waltz
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 05. - 06. Nov 2000
      Théâtre des Arts, Rouen 17. Dec 2003
      »S« represents the middle section of the »Körper Trilogy« by Sasha Waltz. The piece acts as a connective link between the investigation of the physical being in »Körper« and the metaphysical being in »noBody«. While sexuality and Eros are all but absent from these two pieces, with »S« they constitute central themes. The New York musician Jonathan Bepler, renowned for his long-standing collaboration with Matthew Barney on »Cremaster Cycle«, composed the room-encompassing original music for the production.
      World premiere
      07.11.2000
      Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin

      A production of Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin
      presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests
    • Sacre
      Claude Debussy
      Hector Berlioz
      Igor Strawinsky
      Sasha Waltz
      Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg 13. - 15. May 2013
      Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin 23. - 30. Jun 2019
      L'Après-midi d'un faune
      Scène d'Amour
      Sacre

      Considered one of the key works of modernism, it is a hundred years after the genesis of Igor Stravinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps« that Sasha Waltz takes on the Mariinsky Theatre’s offer to engage with this extraordinary piece of musical and dance history. Its title translates to »The Rite of Spring«. The strikingly archaic, tension-charged and angular composition is characterised by a strongly emphasised rhythm, precipitous drops and a layering of constantly repeating musical motives. Its many almost noise-like dissonances and expressionist sonic impression have made the work one of the most famous pieces of music of the modern avant-garde.
      Earlier large-format pieces of Sasha Waltz’, »Na Zemlje« (»on Earth«, 1999), »Medea« (2007), »Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)«, and »Continu« (2010) have already showcased elements of her research into rites and group dynamics. With her choreography of Igor Stravinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, she now dedicates an entire piece to these themes.

      »For a long time, I have been interested in the archaic myths and rites that conjure up the power and grand order of nature. In today’s highly technologized world, the forces of nature have been reduced to appear almost exclusively in the form of catastrophe. Rituals, on the other hand, display nature’s cyclical structure and address the relationship of humankind to its origins. The belief in and the connection to a higher order are strengthened; the individual sacrifices himself for the sake of the community. The choreography for »Le Sacre du Printemps« by Stravinsky offers me the chance to dedicate an entire piece to this material.«
      (Sasha Waltz)

      In 2013, the new production »Sacre« was shown in St. Petersburg, Paris, Brussels and Berlin. Each performance had been part of a multi-piece evening seeking to relate other works to »Sacre«, such as the reconstructed 1913 original choreography of »Le Sacre du Printemps« by Stravinsky/Nijinsky in St. Petersburg and »Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)« by Sasha Waltz & Guests to Wolfgang Rihm’s music in Brussels. The Mariinsky Ballet danced in St. Petersburg and Paris, while the cast of the company Sasha Waltz & Guests presented the performances in Brussels and Berlin for the first time.
      In Berlin »Sacre« celebrated its German premiere as a three-part evening together with Sasha Waltz’ choreographies of »Scène d’Amour« with music by Hector Berlioz, and Debussy’s »L’Après-midi d’un faune« musically directed by Daniel Barenboim with the Staatskapelle Berlin.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Alexander Soddy (Musical Direction)
      Guillaume Bruère (Set Design)
      Pia Maier Schriever (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Guillaume Bruère (Costume Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      David Finn (Lighting Design)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Thilo Reuther (Lighting Design)
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      World premiere
      danced by Sasha Waltz & Guests
      13.09.2013
      Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
      Brussels

      »Sacre« is a production of Sasha Waltz & Guests co-produced by Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg and Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, Brussels. Made in Radialsystem.
    • Sasha Waltz. Installationen Objekte Performances (ZKM)
      Sasha Waltz
      with music by Jonathan Bepler, Pascal Dusapin, Hans Peter Kuhn, Henry Purcell and Franz Schubert
      ZKM, Karlsruhe 27. Sep - 02. Feb 2013
      Concealed behind Sasha Waltz’s choreography is more than just dance and music. Stage elements and spatial design contribute to lending expression to the choreographies of a unique, artistic form. On the occasion of her birthday, the ZKM brings back the internationally celebrated choreographer, Sasha Waltz, to her native city Karlsruhe. Furthermore, the twenty-year anniversary of the dance ensemble »Sasha Waltz & Guests« which Waltz founded, now provides excellent occasion to present her work in an entirely new context beyond the world’s renowned stages at the ZKM | Media Museum.
      With the special exhibition, the ZKM honors Sasha Waltz’s fundamental role in the world of international dance and stage. For some time the choreographer has played with the idea to disengage stage design and multimedia elements from the context of the stage and to present them as independent installations. Now, with the exhibition at the ZKM, this idea is about to be realized. Embedded in the context of the museum, this exhibition offers visitors the unique opportunity to experience the visual-aesthetic dimension of the choreographic works by Sasha Waltz. At the same time, representational elements are captured otherwise reserved for the elusiveness of a performance.
      Opening
      28.09.2013
      ZKM Karlsruhe

      Curators: Sasha Waltz and Peter Weibel
    • Showing Charlotte Zerbey & Alessandro Certini - The Trip & The Gate -
      Radialsystem, Berlin 10. Sep 2017
      The Trip

      With a performative mode which takes its roots from the psychedelic culture of the 60ies and 70ies avant-garde years, "The Trip" focuses attention on that "rebellion" of the individual that begins with the beauty of the imagination and of poetic thought and attempts a possible revolution of the self. A discovery of a breath of life that triggers a transformation of everyday experiences into perceptive actions to access a new social reality.

      The Gate

      "The Gate" is a performance that speaks of passage to other places and other realities. Each of us, as a unique singularity, is constantly choosing between authenticity and inauthenticity. "The Gate" imagines an opening beyond this division, a here and now, a creative mind state, a reality of unresolved ends, which allows for migration and new growth to multiply in spontaneous directions. It’s a glimpse of other things to come, barriers that crumble, demolishing what may block different understandings of existence and choice. As part of a group we may perceive that the quantity of our ordinary efforts may subtract from the quality of the overall creative task, taking away from a sense of appreciation. However, to allow undermining incongruencies to fall aside, a way is achieved, stunned by a sheer force that sparks joy with its humble yet audacious nature.

      "The Gate" is part of a 5 day workshop Charlotte Zerbey and Alessandro Certini will give from the 5th to the 10th of September at RADIALSYSTEM V. The workshop is open to professional and semi professional dancers. For more information and registration, please write to eguerin@sashawaltz.de.

      With support by MiBACT Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo e Regione Toscana.
      Present cast:
      Charlotte Zerbey (Dance / Choreography)
      Alessandro Certini (Dance / Choreography)
    • Showing Jeremy Nelson und Luis Malvacias
      Radialsystem, Berlin 09. Jul 2016
      The choreographers and dancers show two pieces of their six duet projects "A B C D E F", which examines the interweaving of production, process and performance. "B", short for "becoming" examines the constant change of people and things, "E" is for "events", and deals with the composition of small happenings which become something whole. Content wise the theme of their choreographic discoveries surrounds life and aging.

      Konzept, Kreation und Performance: Jeremy Nelson und Luis Malvacías / 3RD CLASS CITIZEN
      Musik: Ivo Bol

      Supported by New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests
      Present cast:
      Jeremy Nelson (Dance / Choreography)
      Luis Malvacias (Dance / Choreography)
      Jeremy Nelson (Direction, Concept)
      Luis Malvacias (Direction, Concept)
      Supported by New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests.
    • Solo für Malakov
      Sasha Waltz
      Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 20. Apr 2006
      (no english description)
      World Premiere
      20.04.2006
      Haus der Kulturen der Welt
      Berlin
    • SYM-PHONIE MMXX
      für Tanz, Licht und Orchester
      Choreographie von Sasha Waltz
      Musik von Georg Friedrich Haas (Auftragswerk)
      Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin 13. - 19. Mar 2022
      Teatr Wielki, Lódz 07. - 08. Oct 2022
      Sasha Waltz’ latest work for dance, light and orchestra »SYM-PHONIE MMXX« is a commissioned work by the renowned composer Georg Friedrich Haas and is his first official stage work for dance after numerous operas.

      Composed for the large symphonic ensemble of the Staatskapelle Berlin, the music gives room to a symphony of dance and music, which creates a close connection between the musical language and the dancers’ body language.

      The production’s concept, in the best tradition of dance history, is based on the inspiring encounter of the arts and has been declared the artistic guideline: music, dance and visual arts are transformed by Sasha Waltz and her artistic team into a full-length work which at the same time reflects the contrasts and contradictions of our current life reality like a seismograph. Thus creating a piece of clamorous silence and eruptive energy.

      »In SYM-PHONIE MMXX I want to shape the extreme experience of our reality and create a contemporary genre painting.«
      Sasha Waltz

      Georg Friedrich Haas is one of the most successful composers of contemporary music. His success is due in part to having dedicated himself to the utopian idea – »unattainable in hundred percent perfection« – of creating a new music that is both expressive and soothing – not despite of its newness, but precisely because it is new.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Choreography, Concept, Direction)
      Pia Maier Schriever (Set Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      David Finn (Lighting Design)
      Michal Mualem (Rehearsal Direction)
      Sebastian Abarbanell (Dance / Choreography)
      Blenard Azizaj (Dance / Choreography)
      Jíři Bartovanec (Dance / Choreography)
      Anne Brinon (Dance / Choreography)
      Rosa Dicuonzo (Dance / Choreography)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Melissa Figueiredo (Dance / Choreography)
      Yuya Fujinami (Dance / Choreography)
      Tian Gao (Dance / Choreography)
      Eva Georgitsopoulou (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Agnieszka Jachym (Dance / Choreography)
      Lorena Justribó Manion (Dance / Choreography)
      Kelvin Kilonzo (Dance / Choreography)
      Annapaola Leso (Dance / Choreography)
      Jaan Männima (Dance / Choreography)
      Sean Nederlof (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Joel Suárez Gómez (Dance / Choreography)
      Ichiro Sugae (Dance / Choreography)
      »SYM-PHONIE MMXX« was created in co-production with the Staatsballett Berlin and received its world premiere on March 13th 2022 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.
    • Tannhäuser
      Richard Wagner
      Sasha Waltz
      Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin 12. - 27. Apr 2014
      Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin 30. Apr - 14. May 2023
      An Opera by Richard Wagner with the Staastopernchor and the Staatskapelle Berlin
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Sebastian Weigle (Musical Direction)
      Pia Maier Schriever (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      David Finn (Lighting Design)
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      World premiere
      12.04.2014

      A production of Staatsoper im Schiller Theater.
    • Travelogue I - Twenty to eight
      Sasha Waltz
      Grand Theater, Groningen 16. - 23. Sep 1993
      Radialsystem, Berlin 26. - 28. Jan 2018
      Humor, aggression and sensuality are important elements of my choreographic work. Use of concrete objects, sets, film editing techniques and the grotesque movements of the silent movies are major sources of inspiration in developing my movement vocabulary. The language is expressive and emotional, but still leaves space for abstraction. The simple events of daily life with comic turning points build the contrast to the dramatic and emotionally loaded parts. I concentrate on detail and the subtlety of gestures and action to create an intricate and rhythmic picture of our time. Cliché and stereotype transform the characters into caricatures of themselves. The music is a driving force in the creation of my pieces. For TRAVELOGUE the music is an original composition by Tristan Honsinger.

      Starting point of »Travelogue I – Twenty to eight« is the kitchen. On this location, five people meet. The kitchen acts as a mirror in which rituals, habits and behavior patterns can be observed and reflected as they truly are. Through these reflections a web of relationships is woven. The characters run around, neurotic and obsesessive in their actions, lonely and lost, unable to find a way out ¬¬– prisoners of their own social structures.

      I like to use real objects like a fridge, a telephone or a bed to challenge my choreographic research. This is a piece about us, our life, our way of living, about the banal activities and the simplicity of things. I want to show the beauty of ordinary objects, a beauty we no longer see. Our reality becomes a dream. This piece started with our passion for movies and their stars. We decided to become our own hereos, imperfect, ugly and as beautiful as we can possibly be. I was especially inspired by Luis Bunels / Salvador Dalis »Un Chien Andalou« and Jean-Luc Godard`s »A Bout de Souffle« (Breathless).
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Barbara Steppe (Set Design)
      André Pronk (Lighting Design)
      Tristan Honsinger (Composition)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Florencia Lamarca (Dance / Choreography)
      Edivaldo Ernesto (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Rehearsal Direction)
      World premiere
      16.09.1993
      Grand Théâtre Groningen

      The piece has been developed by and with the dancers Nasser Martin-Gousset, Ákos Hargitay/Thomas Lehmen, Charlotte Zerbey, Takako Suzuki and Sasha Waltz.

      A co-production by Sasha Waltz & Guests and Grand Theatre Groningen, NL. With friendly support of the Berlin Government Dep.Culturals Affairs, Fonds of Performing Arts, Initiative Neue Musik Berlin e.V.
    • Travelogue II - Tears break fast
      Sasha Waltz
      Podewil, Berlin 26. Oct - 05. Nov 1994
      Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin 10. - 11. Apr 1998
    • Travelogue III - All Ways Six Steps
      Sasha Waltz
      SchauBurg am Elisabethplatz, München 20. May 1995
      Atelier des Tanneurs, Brüssel 23. - 24. Apr 1998
      World premiere
      26.08.1995
      Theater am Halleschen Ufer Berlin
      (Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 2)
    • UN/RUHE - Freispiel 2016
      Radialsystem, Berlin 16. - 17. Aug 2016
      The double meaning of the English adjective »still« carries with it a latent tension between a motionless state and opposition. UN/RUHE an innovative evening oscillating between contemporary music and dance, is picking up on this theme: the main focus is the violin concert »still« by British composer Rebecca Saunders, which will be framed by the prelude of Richard Wagner’s »Tristan and Isolde« and the »Lulu-Suite« by Alban Berg. »still« which was premiered for the first time at the Beethovenfest in 2011, has been compositionally expanded upon specifically for UN/RUHE and opened up for dance. Just as »still« crosses the borders of violin technique and enters into unchartered musical territory, so too does UN/RUHE dare to step into the unknown with its melting together of music, dance, space and audience.
      Present cast:
      Jochen Sandig (Scenic Arrangement, Concept)
      Rebecca Saunders (Composition, Concept)
      Sylvain Cambreling (Musical Direction)
      Carolin Widmann (Violin) (Soloists Instrumental)
      Ana Durlovski (Soloists)
      Rosabel Huguet (Direction Assistance)
      Jörg Bittner (Lighting Design)
      Eine Produktion der Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie in Koproduktion mit Sasha Waltz & Guests, den Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik Darmstadt, dem Kunstfest Weimar und dem RADIALSYSTEM V Berlin. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Aventis Foundation, GVL, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, kulturMut, Kuratorium der Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie und Schering Stiftung
    • Women
      St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin 30. Aug - 02. Sep 2017
      Together with Sasha Waltz, 20 female dancers engage in rituals of femininity and explore the body images associated with them. What happens when women come together and form alliances? And how can our knowledge of the past inform the development of new feminist movements which move beyond a battle of the sexes? Inspired in part by Judy Chicago’s iconic work »The Dinner Party« (1979, Brooklyn Museum, New York), Sasha Waltz is working for the first time with an all-woman ensemble. In Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s St. Elisabeth Church, the live performance interacts with one of Berlin’s architectural icons, as do the dancers with the audience to create an immersive experience of space.
      Present cast:
      Liza Alpízar Aguilar (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia Catarzi (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Clémentine Deluy (Dance / Choreography)
      Lisa Densem (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Lorena Justribó Manion (Dance / Choreography)
      Florencia Lamarca (Dance / Choreography)
      Maureen López Lembo (Dance / Choreography)
      Annapaola Leso (Dance / Choreography)
      Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (Dance / Choreography)
      Thusnelda Mercy (Dance / Choreography)
      Michal Mualem (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Claudia de Serpa Soares (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Wibke Storkan (Dance / Choreography)
      Charlotte Zerbey ()
      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth
      presented by Tanz im August - 29. Internationales Festival Berlin.
      Shows are supported by Schering Stiftung.
    • Zoomorphic Bodies - Showing Jonathan Osborn
      Radialsystem, Berlin 08. - 10. Aug 2019
      Inspired by the work of phenomenologist Alphonso Lingis, ethnologist Roberto Marchesini, and philosopher Elizabeth Grosz, Jonathan Osborn’s »Zoomorphic Bodies« investigates the psychogeography of two Berlin institutions that stage animal life and explores the potential for nonhuman bodies to shift human perception of form, rhythm, and movement. Created through phenomenologically oriented in-situ research, »Arche« (2018), featuring Canadian soloist Danielle Baskerville, focuses on the hundreds of animal species inhabiting the Berlin Zoologischer Garten, while »Fossil« (2019), featuring Berlin-based artist Orlando Rodriguez, examines the inert, yet still lively, paleontological collection of the Berlin Museum für Naturkunde.
      Both works are contemporary reflections on the sublime capacity of nonhuman life to affect, in both minute and profound ways, living human bodies and choreography, and to decenter anthropocentric aesthetics.

      »Arche« (2018)
      Choreography: Jonathan Osborn
      Dance: Danielle Baskerville
      »Fossil« (2019)
      Choreography: Jonathan Osborn
      Dance: Orlando Rodriguez

      Costume Design: Alicia Zwicewicz
      Music: Benjamin Boles

      Ticketholders for Sasha Waltz' »Impromptus« will get a reduced ticket at 8 Euro.

      Jonathan Osborn
      is a Toronto-based choreographer, researcher, and educator whose current academic and artistic work investigates human-animal choreographic relations and the staging of nature-cultures sites such as zoo’s, gardens, and museums. A graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, he has created over 16 original choreographic works focused primarily on the solo form. Jonathan holds a PhD in Dance Studies from York University and his SSRCH funded research appears in publications such as »Narrative in Performance« (2018) and »Zoo Studies: A New Humanities« (2019).

      Danielle Baskerville,
      recipient of both the 2014 K.M. Hunter Award for Dance and a 2015 Dora Mavor Moore Award, works with Canada’s leading contemporary dance companies and creators. She is Artistic Associate of D.A. Hoskins’ The Dietrich Group and a senior member of Dancetheatre David Earle. Upcoming independent projects include works by James Kudelka, Bill Coleman, Jonathan Osborn, Kate Alton and acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill. With an interest in contributing to insightful discourse on Canadian contemporary dance, Danielle has completed an SSHRC-funded MA in Dance Studies at York University. Along with producing and teaching dance, she is a contributor to The Dance Current and is an executive board member of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists-Ontario.

      Orlando Rodriguez
      was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1974. After his degree from the University of Arts in Caracas (2001) he received a scholarship of the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen from 2004–2007. Today he is living in Berlin but active europewide as freelance performer and choreograph. He has collaborated with artists such as MOUVOIR/ Stephanie Thiersch, Davide Camplani, Cie. Morphose/Soraya Thomas, Vincent Bozek, Sergiu Matis and Verónica Santiago. Since 2009 he has been working with Sasha Waltz & Guests and is dancing in various productions. Rodriguez’ curiosity and interest in relaying his knowledge of the work with the body prompted him to give different masterclasses in Germany, France, Venezuela and Lithuania. He likes to encourage his collaborators to experiment with new forms of emotional expression, bodylanguage and contact with the audience.
      The creation of »Arche« was supported by the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council.
      The creation of »Fossil« was supported by the Canada Arts Council and Sasha Waltz & Guests.
    • Zuhören #4
      Radialsystem, Berlin 13. - 15. Dec 2019
      Zuhören #4
      Climate change & democracy
      From complexity to action

      The fourth edition of »Zuhören – Dritter Raum für Kunst und Politik«, which Sasha Waltz & Guests reopens, seeks new and current challenges: After three editions in 2016 and 2017 dealing with active listening, migration and committed communities, the focus is now on the pressing issues of climate and democracy change. For a weekend at the radialsystem, Sasha Waltz & Guests invites people to get in touch with local initiatives, the company's network and international guests. Exchanging ideas, learning new things together and questioning the old: In a collective process that appeals to the head, heart and feet, different perspectives on our complex present will be in the focus – in order to act together right now!
      Workshops, discussions and interventions are accompanied by dance, music and shared food. A weekend of empathy, enjoyable learning and participation. For new connections beyond the borders of art, science, politics, philosophy and civil society!
       
      Program

      Friday, 13 December, from 7 pm

      As an introduction to the complex topic of climate change, US-American director Josh Fox opens »Zuhören #4« on Friday evening with his solo lecture performance »The Truth Has Changed«. His personal view of the topic will then be expanded with perspectives from marine biologist Prof. Dr. Anke Boetius, a voice from the Global South and a representative of the »Fridays for Future« movement. The evening ends with a Late Night Concert: Joseph Houston (piano) and Sarah Saviet (violin) examine the interface between music and nature on the basis of selected compositions – accompanied by unusual sound bodies, beyond the classical concert situation.


      Saturday, 14 December, from 2 pm

      Saturday will be marked by energy and impetus: After a warm-up during a joint Dabke Community Dance with Medhat Aldaabal and Ali Hasan, various initiatives will offer workshops on the subject of climate change and action. Linked to dance, the program starts with art and body, but deliberately opens up to nutrition, the connection between personal development and structural change, business and empowerment: »How artistic can political activism be?« asks Josh Fox. »What does sustainable food management look like?« shows Restlos Glücklich. »How can resistance be experienced physically?« – a theme for Extinction Rebellion and Amazonas Solidarity Berlin.

      The dinner together leads into the second part of the day: With the dance piece »Teqsi muyu marq'ay - A Warm Embrace for the Earth«, the teens group of the children's dance company of Sasha Waltz & Guests presents their artistic confrontation with climate change and climate justice in the context of indigenous peoples and their values. The young dancers thus open the space for a subsequent discussion with the philosopher Andreas Weber and dancer-choreographer Luz Zenaida Hualpa García on the subject of »indigenousity«. At the subsequent party with DJ, the circle closes with a joint dance.

      »FutureLeaks« invites you to rewrite the future on Saturday and Sunday in a immersive parcours. The hall of the radialsystem transforms over the three days into a place of exchange and shared food – the initiative »Restlos Glücklich« together with the public serves »rescued« foods in tastefully creative preparation.


      Sunday, 15 December, from 2pm

      Im Angesicht komplexer Krisen in unserer globalisierten Welt empfinden Menschen weltweit ein Gefühl der Ohnmacht. Gleichzeitig wächst ziviles Engagement, um in die Tat zu kommen. Welche Rolle spielen das Zuhören und der Dialog für die Weiterentwicklung der Demokratie und des lokalen wie globalen Miteinanders? Diesen und weiteren Fragen widmet sich der dritte und letzte Tag von »Zuhören #4«. Nach dem gemeinsamen Warm-Up »Collective Intelligence in motion« mit Gabriel Galindez Cruz folgt ein Gespräch in Zusammenarbeit mit »Das Progressive Zentrum« und Gästen wie Lex Paulson & Bernard Le Roux (School of Collective Intelligence, Marokko), Maria Exner (Zeit Online – »Deutschland spricht«) und Maja Göpel (Expertin für Klimapolitik). Gemeinsam mit einem Gründungsmitglied des World Human Forums Delphi beschäftigt sich das Publikum spielerisch mit den 17 UN-Nachhaltigkeitszielen.
      Musik und Tanz bringen Rhythmus in den Tag. Der Tänzer und Choreograph Sergiu Matis führt in seiner performativen Soundinstallation »Extinction Room» sehr eindrücklich das Artensterben vor Augen. Mit gemeinsamem Essen und einer kollektiven Tanzimprovisation in der großen Halle des Radialsystems endet »Zuhören #4« in Bewegung.
      By facing complex crises in our globalized world, people all over the world feel powerless. At the same time, civil commitment is growing: the people are actively involved. What role do listening and dialogue play in the further development of democracy and local and global cooperation? The third and last day of »Zuhören #4« is dedicated to these and other questions. The warm-up »Collective Intelligence in motion« with Gabriel Galindez Cruz will be followed by a discussion in collaboration with »Das Progressive Zentrum« and guests such as Lex Paulson & Bernard Le Roux (School of Collective Intelligence, Morocco), Maria Exner (Zeit Online – »Deutschland spricht«) and Maja Göpel (climate policy expert). Together with a founding member of the World Human Forum Delphi, the audience playfully explores the 17 UN sustainability goals. Music and dance bring rhythm into the day. In his performative sound installation »Extinction Room«, dancer and choreographer Sergiu Matis impressively demonstrates the extinction of species. With a meal together and a collective dance improvisation in the hall of the radialsystem, the end of »Zuhören #4« is movement.
       
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Emilie Guérin (Education / Children's Dance Company)
      Anja Schmalfuß (Networking, Development)
      »Zuhören - Third Space for Art and Politics« is a project by Sasha Waltz & Guests I Education & Community, supported by the Radial Stiftung and Berlin Mondiale. Sasha Waltz & Guests is supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Capital Cultural Fund.
      »FutureLeaks @ Zuhören #4« is created in cooperation with FutureLeaks and Berlin Mondiale – Art in the context of migration, flight and exile, Allianz Kulturstiftung, radialsystem and Sasha Waltz & Guests.
    • ZUHÖREN 2017
      Radialsystem, Berlin 24. - 26. Nov 2017
      Sasha Waltz & Guests are taking »ZUHÖREN« forward: the third edition will take place between November 24 and 26 2017 at Radialsystem V. Once again, »ZUHÖREN« will open up a space at the intersection of art and politics, private and public combining a program of films, dance, concerts, workshops, audiovisual installations, shared meals and conversations intended to bring about inspirational exchanges. The company will present artists and activists from the Middle East, the United States, Brazil and Berlin, whose work presents forms of artistic resistance, contributing in unique ways to the creation and strengthening of new, diverse communities: with Hiwa K and Rick Lowe, choreographers Lia Rodrigues and Modjgan Hashemian, #NDAPL-activist Floris White Bull, the documentary filmmakers Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi and the curator of the ifa- Galerie Berlin Alya Sebti. Also participating are the Berlin-based initiatives »Baynetna – Between Us, German-Arabic Library«, »Women for Common Spaces«, »The Space Berlin e.V.« and »The Poetry Project«. Key themes throughout this edition of »ZUHÖREN« are women’s political and creative engagement for future generations, and peaceful struggle in new alliances. These themes are taken up in the conversations and presentations, but also appear in the dance and music events.
      »ZUHÖREN – Third Space for Art and Politics« is supported in 2017 by the Robert Bosch Foundation
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz & Guests (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasha Waltz (Artistic Direction)
      Emilie Guérin (Production)
      Anja Schmalfuß (Networking, Development)
      ZUHÖREN is a project by Sasha Waltz &Guests and is 2017 supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung.
      Sasha Waltz & Guests is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
    • ZUHÖREN: Continu
      Sasha Waltz
      Radialsystem, Berlin 03. - 08. Feb 2016
      »Continu« (2010) for 21 dancers can be considered Sasha Waltz’ most expressive work.
      The epochal orchestral work »Arcana« (1927) by Edgard Varèse represents its musical core. Thematically, „Continu“ showcases the conflictual relationship between individuals and a group or society. In light of the recent events and experiences concerning flight, migration and the diversity of cultural identities, new ways of perceiving this piece unfold. There will be a space for exchange while eating together, which can be visited before and after the shows.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Liza Alpízar Aguilar (Dance / Choreography)
      Blenard Azizaj (Dance / Choreography)
      Davide Camplani (Dance / Choreography)
      Maria Marta Colusi (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Delphine Gaborit (Dance / Choreography)
      Mata Sakka (Dance / Choreography)
      Sasa Queliz (Dance / Choreography)
      Florencia Lamarca (Dance / Choreography)
      Sergiu Matis (Dance / Choreography)
      Idan Yoav (Dance / Choreography)
      Thomas Michaux (Dance / Choreography)
      Virgis Puodziunas (Video)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Orlando Rodriguez (Dance / Choreography)
      Yael Schnell (Dance / Choreography)
      Joel Suárez Gómez (Dance / Choreography)
      Hwanhee Hwang (Dance / Choreography)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Pia Maier Schriever (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Bernd Skodzig (Costume Design)
      Jochen Sandig (Dramaturgy)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      World premiere
      20.06.2010
      Zürcher Festspiele
      Schauspielhaus Zürich

      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in collaboration with Schauspielhaus Zürich/Zürcher Festspiele, spielzeit’europa|Berliner Festspiele and Sadler’s Wells London.
      Supported by Radial Stiftung. Made in Radialsystem®.
    • ZUHÖREN: Gespräche
      Sasha Waltz & Guests
      Radialsystem, Berlin 05. - 09. Feb 2016
      The company Sasha Waltz & Guests works with people from all over the world and receives a lot of hospitality on their tours. Sasha Waltz takes the shows of »Continu« and the highly relevant topics of refugees and social activism as an opportunity to invite guests from the Middle East, the Mediterranean area and Germany. The motto of these encounters is »ZUHÖREN« (»Listening«): enabling dialogue and exchange on artistic strategies and interventions with regards to the political and humanitarian conflicts, the situation of women and model initiatives in the arts, media and everyday life.

      Friday 5 February 2016
      How do artists deal with major crises and an increase in violence? The guests will present their current projects in pho- tography and music, followed by a discussion.
      Herlinde Koelbl, a German fine art photographer, will present her internationally acclaimed project »Targets«. She spent six years traveling through 30 countries to document military training sites and targets characteristic of the various countries. How are the images of the enemy constructed?
      Karim Wasfi, an Iraqi cellist and conductor, gives an account of his work of many years as an artist and educator leading the »Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra«, of his way of dealing with attacks in the city, and of how the »Karim Wasfi Center for Creativity – Peace Through Arts« was founded.
      Stéphan Talneau, French filmdirector, has been creating portraits of international musicians working in Berlin since 2008 in his series »Berliner-Moment«. The preview of his most recent film, in cooperation with Laurent Latappy, features the Arab music group »Orphe«. Presentation: Georg Diez, journalist and author
      To be followed by the installation with food, live music and DJ.

      Saturday 6 February 2016
      Historically Georgia is a Christian country located between Russia and the Muslim Middle East. It was the setting of many violent confrontations during the 20th century. How do artists deal with this geographic position and history? The encounter of the Georgian artists starts out from a shared interest in women’s activism and a passion for stories.
      Keti Dolidze, a Georgian actress and the director of the »GIFT Tiflis« festival, founded the »Women’s International White Scarf Movement« during the Georgian civil war in the 1990s.
      Nino Haratishvili, a Georgian author and director, lives in Germany. Her epic family saga, »The Eighth Life (For Brilka)« makes it possible to experience the 20th century history of Georgia through the fate of four generations of women. Salomé Jashi, Georgian documentary filmmaker und supporter of the development of a documentary film scene in South Caucasus portrays the region and its people and stories – even to the most remote places.
      Gesprächsführung: Jutta Schwengsbier, International Correspondents Media Network
      To be followed by the performance of »Continu« and the installation with food, live music and DJ.

      Tuesday 9 February 2016
      »ZUHÖREN« will conclude with a discussion focusing on Syria.
      Yasmine Merei is a journalist, linguist and human rights activist born in Homs, Syria. She is managing editor of »Sayyidat Souria« (»The Lady of Syria«), the first non-religious women’s magazine in Syria, which aims to give a voice and a platform to a new generation of Syrian women.
      Carolin Emcke is a freelance journalist based in Berlin. She writes and talks about subjects such as globalization, war, human rights, theories of violence, bearing witness and cultural identities.
      Mohammad Al Attar is a Syrian playwright and dramaturge. His last piece »Antigone of Shatila« (2015) tells the Greek story out of the perspective of Syrian women seeking refuge in Lebanon.
      MiCT (Media in Cooperation and Transition) will present »Start FM«: a radio station focusing on culture and information in Arabic for refugees and migrants. A pilot program with guests and live music realized by MiCT – Media in Cooperation and Transition.
      Presentation: Christian Mihr, Reporters Without Borders
      To be followed by the installation with food, live music and DJ; Documentary film »Not Who We Are« by Carol Mansour (Lebanon).
    • ZUHÖREN: Improvisationen und Gespräche
      Radialsystem, Berlin 18. - 19. Jun 2016
      With the latest incarnation of »ZUHÖREN«, Sasha Waltz & Guests opens up a »third dimension« for art and policy on June 18 and 19, 2016. The program starts out from improvisations with company dancers and various musicians, such as Burak Özdemir, Michael Rauter, Bob Rutman, Grégoire Simon and Robyn Schulkowsky.
      In view of the current situation of war, terrorism, refugees and the need for civic engagement, Sasha Waltz invites international artists, journalists, human rights activists and politicians to enter into dialogue with one another in the course of three discussions on the topics of film, writing and political participation. What artistic and journalistic strategies do we have at our disposal to exert political influence? Yasmine Merei, a Syrian journalist and human rights activist, will curate and moderate the discussions.

      Aufgrund der großen positiven Resonanz wird das Programm am 18. und 19. Juni 2016 fortgesetzt. Diesmal werden die Gespräche kombiniert mit »Improvisationen« von Tänzern der Compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests und mit Live-Musik auf der großen Bühne. Sasha Waltz kuratiert die Gesprächsrunden gemeinsam mit der syrischen Journalistin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin Yasmine Merei.
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Direction, Concept)
      ZUHÖREN ist ein Projekt von Sasha Waltz & Guests und wird gefördert aus Mitteln des Landes Berlin und des Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
    • Zweiland
      Sasha Waltz
      Sophiensaele, Berlin 25. Sep - 12. Oct 1997
      Radialsystem, Berlin 10. - 13. Dec 2015
      United Germany: »Zweiland« (Twin Lands). Like Siamese twins joined as one yet divided. In her co-production with the 47th Berliner Festspiele – the theme being »Deutschlandbilder« (Images of Germany) – Sasha Waltz comes upon a parable embodying this paradox in the multifarious universe that is movement. She melds the territories of two bodies into an archaic mythical creature incorporating two arms, four legs, one head and two bellies, in living-breathing interdependence. Discordant unity. The material that the double (Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and Nicola Mascia) appears to drag from its mouth, as to throw out a net in response to weakening calls for help, is viscid as cobwebs in Indian Summer. A third figure who wishes to shake the monster’s hand, sticks fast to it, tears the twin-ego apart, and is thus caught up in the maelstrom of a bodily chain-reaction: headfirst, then head over heals, levering and coupling, the trio is interlocked and weightless in a world of manipulations and dark machinations. Cause and effect become one.
      Zweiland – Impressions by Irene Sieben
      Present cast:
      Sasha Waltz (Concept, Choreography)
      Thomas Schenk (Set Design)
      Sasha Waltz (Set Design)
      Annette Bätz (Costume Design)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Musical Direction)
      Martin Hauk (Lighting Design)
      Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance / Choreography)
      Luc Dunberry (Dance / Choreography)
      Nicola Mascia (Dance / Choreography)
      Grayson Millwood (Dance / Choreography)
      Zaratiana Randrianantenaina (Dance / Choreography)
      Takako Suzuki (Dance / Choreography)
      Laurie Young (Dance / Choreography)
      World premiere
      26.09.1997
      Sophiensæle Berlin

      A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in coproduction with Berliner Festspiele GmbH, Grand Theatre Groningen, Schauburg München and Staatsschauspiel Dresden. With friendly support of the Berlin Government Dep.Culturals Affairs. Sasha Waltz & Guests is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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