GERMAN DANCE AWARD 2024
Dance gala with award ceremony
Sasha Waltz is awarded by the jury with the German Dance Prize 2024 for her international radiance, her commitment to the structures of the free dance scene and above all for her artistically unique and disciplinary overall work.
Programme Dance Gala;
The Aalto Ballett Essen opens the dance gala with an excerpt from the ballet “Carmen”, choreographed by Johan Inger.
The Akram Khan Company will be performing part of the family-friendly dance theater “Chotto Desh” on the Aalto stage.
“Radical Cheerleading”, by choreographer Zufit Simon, is a piece about dance as a form of protest.
The Staatsballett Berlin will enrich the gala with a pas de deux from “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated” by William Forsythe.
intermission
The dancers of Sasha Waltz & Guests will perform an excerpt from “In C”, a choreography by Sasha Waltz, and will conclude this special evening.
more info: TanzPreis2024
Le Sacre du Printemps
European tour
2024-2025
igor stravinsky
Sasha
Waltz
After a five-year break, the revival of Sasha Waltz's choreography »Sacre« to Igor Stravinsky's key modern work »Le Sacre du Printemps« is on!
- Berliner Festspiele from 27 to 30 June 2024.
- Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona from 6 to 10 July 2024.
- 2025 TBA.
Engage with the philosophy and practice of ethical AI at 'The Lyceum Project: AI Ethics with Aristotle' – a unique one-day conference hosted by the Institute for Ethics in AI University of Oxford, in partnership with Stanford University and Greece's National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos and the World Human Forum.
As closing event an interactive In_C performance by the renowned german choreographer Sasha Waltz on the In_C music score of the pioneer minimalist composer Terry Riley.
Stylianos Tsatsos (Sasha Waltz & Guests Repertoire Master) meets the students of Athens Conservatoire and brings to life a site specific version at archeological space Lyceum of Aristotle which opens and welcomes contemporary art dialogue for the first time in modern years.
More info: oxford-ai.ethics | image:Y.Kouskoutis
In_C
world tour
2022 -2025
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
more info: SW&G | New York Times
images: Mustafah Abdulaziz /Sebastian bolesch / Yanina Isla/ Michael Staab
TANNHÄUSER
StaatsOper Unter den Linden
2023
Sasha Waltz & Guests brings to life the legendary Opera Tannhäuser (Dresden,1845) by Richard Wagner at the StaatsOper Unter den Linden,Berlin.
After seven years of enjoying sensual pleasures in the realm of Venus, the goddess of love, the minstrel Tannhäuser longs to return to his terrestrial life, and especially to his earthly beloved, Elisabeth. But his ambition to unite art and life as well as erotic lust and religious love fails because of the rigid conventions of Wartburg Castle’s bigoted community, and his own radicalism.
more info: staatsOper | images: bernd uhlig
L O H A N
athens NIGHT CLUB
2021-2022
Exploring the night life vibe and guilty pleasures at the Lohan Mega Club and Hip Hop R&B party scene of Lohan World.
The artistic ghetto:
Bill Roxenos - Jo Lata - Amalia Liouta - Sara Ganem - Anna Tsakouridou -Magda Gkiokaa - Blueberry966 - Lil Cli - Terspichorree - Sharka Manara
Sharka Manara
Athens
2022
Match your music
[First she bade us avoid the voice of the wondrous Sirens, and their flowery meadow. Me alone she bade to listen to their voice; but do ye bind me with grievous bonds, that I may abide fast where I am, upright in the step of the mast, and let the ropes be made fast at the ends to the mast itself; and if I implore and bid you to loose me, then do ye tie me fast with yet more bonds.]
Homer. The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.
Christian
Dior
Cruise 2022
In this hauntingly beautiful campaign video directed by Fabien Baron, models embody the modern, sportswear spirit of the Dior 2022 Cruise collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri. Inspired by the House's iconic shoot held 70 years ago at the Acropolis, and set to a rousing soundtrack by Ioanna Gika, this contemporary odyssey pays ode to the eternal beauty of Greece.
Remains
RadialSystem
2020-2022
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.
image: Carolin Saage
Beethoven
The European Tour
9 Symphonies- 9 Cities
Delphi
2021
June 6, 2021
Ludwig van Beethoven’s 7th Symphony with Teodor Currentzis / musicAeterna and Sasha Waltz & Guests in the ancient theatre of Delphi was a big KAIROS moment. A multinational team was created to organise the event. This behind the scenes movie gives a feeling of the team effort that was put together to create this unique concert in this emblematic location.
The concert was part of a Paneuropean event that started at 1pm running until 10.30pm (CET), where ARTE took audiences online for all nine Beethoven symphonies performed in chronological order – seven of them live – from nine major venues all over Europe in Bonn, Dublin, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Prague, Lake Lugano, Delphi, Strasbourg and Vienna.
A co-production by Megaron the Athens Concert Hall, Unitel, ZDF In collaboration with ARTE. Realised with the support of the Region of Central Greece, the Greek National Tourism Organisation, the European Cultural Centre of Delphi and the Hellenic Cultural Centre in Paris. Inititated by the World Human Forum Thank you to the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the Central Archaeological Council for their valuable assistance in making this concert possible, as well as the Ephorate of Antiquities of Phocis for granting use of the Ancient Theatre of Delphi.
Dialoge 2020
Relevante Systeme
RadialSystem
2020
Music-Choreography-Architecture:
Sasha Waltz &Guests, Berlin, 2020
During four evenings in August 2020, 27 dancers will convert the radialsystem and its spacious surroundings into a stage: »Dialoge 2020 – Relevante Systeme« is a project in correlation of music, choreography and architecture refering to the idea of the »Dialogues« that have taken place regularly since the company’s founding in 1993. 2006 the radialsystem was inaugurated as a new space for the arts in Berlin with »Dialoge 2006 – Radiale Systeme«.
Evening:
Trumpet solo »I can’t breathe« by Georg Friedrich Haas (2014)
Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1913)
Boléro by Joseph Maurice Ravel (1928)
Subsequent the audience will experience an adaptation of Sasha Waltz’ »Sacre« creatively dealing with the limiting conditions and circumstances of our current situation. 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.
image: Luna Zscharnt
La mort du vilain petit canard
[recomposé]
2020
A note by Stylianos Tsatsos:
Berlin, 22nd of May, 2020
The First day of my 30s started with a farewell praise to my 20s; a decade full of poetic sorrow which made me bloom to the human alien I am today. My deepest gratitude to every and each one of those 3.650 days and everyone involved in it. I let you all in, I let you all have an impact, because my urge to discover my own one true self worth was my only honest aim. Truth is Love is true. The death of the ugly duckling which symbolises the individual labeled by the power of many as vulnerable, bullied, minoritized, neglected, persecuted, oppressed, tyrannised, tormented, browbeaten, intimidated, judged, underestimated, harassed, abused, marginalised, banned, queer, different, unique just got recomposed. Unity in diversity relates to a true power of clarity and respect to ourselves and towards the others. Love is eternal. Let it all in. Let it all be it. We are just like birds, floating in infinite, uninvented universes, inside our heads; our studios, our spaces; we loudly enter the epic cosmic silence; we are free, we are young, so very young.•*
22= two swans floating
togetherness
Poem:
VI. Animate Nature
The Dying Swan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
Original Music score:
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Le Carnaval des animaux (1886)
XIII – ‘Le Cygne’
Performance | Music score remastered | Visual curation |Video editing
Stylianos Tsatsos
k-now
2020
Dedicated to the e-motions during those uncertain times | Stylianos Tsatsos x Sasha Waltz & Guests | 2020 being 50/50 | Ode to my heartbeat and my breathing |Q&A seeker/embrace(r).
Sasha Waltz & Guests dance diary; We stay at home, but keep on dancing! Since March 30th Sasha Waltz & Guests is writing an online dance diary: Every 2 days we send a danced video-greeting to our audience at home via Facebook, YouTube and our Website. Dancers of Sasha Waltz & Guests perform their own interpretation of short solos from choreographies by Sasha Waltz.
22. Kapitel - 12. Mai 2020
Stylianos Tsatsos Solo of »Rauschen« by Sasha Waltz & Guests
Animation: Stylianos Tsatsos
Musik: Soundcollage aus dem Stück
remains
postponed
On March 12th 2020 the American performer, writer, and director Andrew Schneider will celebrate his German debut at radialsystem after premieres at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Public Theater New York. This is also the first time that Sasha Waltz & Guests has worked with a guest director on a new production, demonstrating its commitment to artistic research and cross-genre collaboration with international artists.
In light of recent developments: Together with us and the participating artists, the radialsystem has decided to present tomorrow’s premiere and the further performances of »remains« with a maximum capacity of 350 seats as planned. We look forward to all visitors and ask for mutual consideration and compliance with the recommendations for avoiding infection.
»remains« – bodies in space over time. We are present together in this time and space. What traces will we leave behind?
Together with nine dancers of the company, recognizable from the choreographies by Sasha Waltz, Andrew Schneider embarks on a curious investigation into the fields of quantum entanglement and human entanglement, the visible and the invisible. Do ghostly events inscribe themselves in the body from afar? Do they have lasting effects on our togetherness? Can invisible forces be experienced? And is there an explanation for how we ended up right here and now?
more Info: sWG Arte| Image: Juan camilo roa / SWG
ArtWorks
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
2019-2020
ARTWORKS Fellowship is a nonprofit organization that aims to create a fertile and nurturing environment for Greek artists through funding and public engagement opportunities.
With the 2018 inauguration of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program, ARTWORKS has been awarding monetary prizes to individual artists in recognition of their artistic skills and qualifications. The purpose of these awards is to empower the Fellows and encourage them to reflect, explore and experiment with their artistic practice. Apart from financial support, the Program offers free seminars and workshops to stimulate dialogue and creativity. The long-term goal is to create a dynamic alumni network, a support system that will promote interaction among artists, communities and institutions.
ARTWORKS was founded in 2017 and is exclusively supported by its founding donor, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
more info: artworks
noBody
postponed
»noBody« completes the three-piece choreographic cycle about humans and their bodies which Sasha Waltz has been working on since 1999. In her piece »Körper« she investigates the anatomy and the physical appearance of the human being, relating her dancers' bodies to architecture, science, and history. »S« searches for the origin of life, of Eros, and of sensibility. »noBody« asks about the metaphysical existence of humanity
image; bernd uhlig
Sacre
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Staatsoper Unter den Linden ; three-part ballet evening with music by three composers who counted among the avant-garde artists of their day: Hector Berlioz, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. From »Roméo et Juliette«, the unexpectedly successful »Symphonie dramatique« that Berlioz completed in 1839, Sasha Waltz has choreographed the major love scene between the protagonists, which features delicate sound and multifarious orchestration. Debussy is represented with his »Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun«, about which Pierre Boulez said, »the flute of the faun brought new breath to the art of music«.
Stravinsky’s »Le sacre du printemps«, however, was far more spectacular than this artful but rather fragile composition: its Paris debut in May 1913, realised by the legendary ensemble of the Ballets Russes, created a veritable theatre scandal. The unleashed power of the rhythmic, both in music and in dance, bothered quite a few people, as did the intensity of the sounds generated by the gigantic orchestral apparatus. Nonetheless, the audience became witnesses to the birth of a truly »New Music«, which has since repeatedly shown its vitality. First performed exactly a century after the world premiere, Sasha Waltz’s choreography of Stravinsky’s exceptional piece has an impressive elementary impact and elementary expressiveness of dance.
more info; StaatsOperBerlin | Image; Bernd Uhlig
Rauschen/
Noise
Volksbühne Berlin
Sasha Waltz & Guests new project in co-production with Volksbühne Berlin deals with a society which, within the sceneries of its perfect living spaces, has lost sight of the world. Through states of groundlessness, the choreography with 12 dancers drifts into a revelatory process. Light designer David Finn, who has worked with Sasha Waltz in particular for her great opera productions, infuses a completely white stage with his vivid light spheres. The costumes will be designed by Bernd Skodzig whose creations have accompanied Sasha Waltz’ choreographic work for many years.
MORE INFO: VOLKSBÜHNE | IMAGES: Julian röder , Carolin Saage
Allee der Kosmonauten
2019
MARCH
Guest performance by Sasha Waltz & Guests in VolksBühne, Berlin. In 1996, Allee der Kosmonauten was the first premiere at the newly founded Sophiensæle in Berlin Mitte. Created at the cusp of a new epoch, the piece recounts an era of living together without an escape route. In a housing block in former East Berlin, feelings and movements of a three generation family build up dangerously around their living room couch. The uncomfortably comical exploration of this anxious space, crowded and colliding, triggers solutions at the limits of danceability.
MORE INFO: SW&G | VOLKSBÜHNE | IMAGES: Matthias Zölle
DAU
2019
JANUARY
DAU is an ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about a Soviet physicist into a large scale project - part cinematic cycle, part behavioural experiment - involving hundreds of participants from around the world. Combining elements of film, theatre, science, psychology, architecture, visual arts and performance, it has created a complex and absorbing world that has to be lived as much as seen. It’s release will take place in Paris, 2019.
DAU is ultimately a vast collaborative experiment. Many of its participants are celebrated figures in the fields of science, art, theatre and film and are now DAU’s ambassadors. These include physicists and mathematicians Carlo Rovelli, Dimitri Kaledin, David Gross, and Shing Tung Yau; conductor Teodor Currentzis; theatre directors Peter Sellars, Romeo Castellucci and Anatoly Vassiliev; artists Carsten Höller, Marina Abramovic, Boris Mikhailov and Philippe Parreno; designer Rei Kawakubo and many more…
Sasha Waltz & Guests has been invited to participate the experiment as part of the research project for its new choreographic work ‘Rauschen’.
The Experiment is ongoing…
Exodos/Έξοδος
2018
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER
On 23rd August 2018 the new creation »Exodos« by Sasha Waltz & Guests will have its world premiere at the Radialsystem V, Berlin. The production is a coproduction with the Ruhrtriennale – »Exodos« will be performed during the festival at the Jahrhunderhalle Bochum in September.
In Exodos Sasha Waltz investigates the collective body of those who go out in order to immerse themselves in each other and to escape from themselves; searching for ways out of material space to be able to enter spaces made up of sound and light. In modern Greek one meaning of ‘exodos’ is to go out like this – enjoying nightlife, visiting bars and clubs that often include the word in their names. However, ‘exodos’ also means escape as well as the specific destination one is escaping to. In the theatre the word means leaving the stage and with it also the moment when the mask of performance is removed. Interdependent relationships exist between these different levels of meaning: one flows into another and it is possible to sharpen this discourse through the language of movement. Waltz traces excess back to transgressive ideas of movement in which the concepts of bacchanalia and ecstasy have their etymological origins. Dance reveals itself as a technique for summoning states of exception in which humanity can comprehend itself. Exodos is produced to mark the 25th anniversary of the company Sasha Waltz & Guests. This new creation is linked to the existential themes of its precursor, the project Kreatur (2017), and further evolves the forms of expression used there.
more info: SW&G | RadialSystem | ruhrtriennale | Images: carolin saage
Still/Life
2018
JUNE
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, C/O Berlin is commemorating Irving Penn with a major retrospective. The exhibition featuring around 240 works was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with The Irving Penn Foundation.
Still/Life, as part of the exhibition based on the work of Irving Penn entitled 'Centennial' , C/O Berlin presents a Matinee with the Dancers of Sasha Waltz & Guests; Jirí Bartovanec, Hwanhee Hwang, Annapaola Leso, Nicola Mascia, Corey Scott-Gilbert & Stylianos Tsatsos encounter with Irving Penn legendary photographic work.
They appear silently and seemingly out of nowhere; their movements are fleeting, spontaneous, and delicate one moment, and expansive the next; some suddenly leave our field of vision and disappear from the room: Dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests make their debut at C/O Berlin on occasion of the exhibition Irving Penn: Centennial. In scenic interactions with the photographs, the soloists draw inspiration from Irving Penn’s multifaceted work. Through the movement and stillness, and the presence and absence of the dancers, Penn’s pictures become three-dimensional, creating surprising visual moments for the visitor.
more info: C/o Berlin | Camera: Lea Bethke, Katrin Krautgasser | Vimeo Video: Lea Bethke
Allee der Kosmonauten
2018
MAY
In 1996, the world premiere of »Allee der Kosmonauten« by Sasha Waltz & Guests was the very first production at the Sophiensaele. Since then, its choreographic approach has become legendary: Sasha Waltz' bizarre scenario of three generations living together in a prefab-housing estate – is coming back to Berlin in May.
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.
more info: SW&G | Radialsystem | mage: eva randuenzel
WaterBottleBodyFall
2018
MAY
The 10th ARC For Dance Festival in an original collaboration with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) and on the occasion of the International Museum Day, 2018 by ICOM, explores with new site-specific works through the ARC_hitects; choreographer Ioannis Mantafounis and performance & installation artist Stylianos Tsatsos, the fluid boundaries between dance, music, installation and performance, the interdependent movements of the audience and the artists, its soundscapes and the evolution of these in relation to the archi-structural body of the museum-organism itself in its real and symbolic dimensions.
more info: emst | ARC10 | IMD18 | und.athens | Protothema | ελculture | Image: s. tsatsos / D. Mertzani | Video: S.tsatsos / G. Lata
The Primary Fact
FFF5-Hikaru Fujii
2018
MARCH/MAY
Can Archaeology help us deal with the identity crises of our contemporary world? Can art help bring secrets still hidden in the earth to the surface? Can we redefine our national identity through a critical approach to the fragments of our past? Is there such a thing as a socially-engaged archaeology? Can we envision the future of a city through the prism of alternative interpretations of its monuments, contemporary and ancient? The 5th Fast Forward Festival focuses on Archaeology as a discipline which engages not with continuation and immobility but with rifts, discontinuities and transformations on the boundary between scientific method and fiction. The Onassis Cultural Centre (OCC) sets out in search of temporal rifts in the liminal zones between myth and testimony, experience and imagination. The FFF5 is bringing together art and science, it sets out to propose a non-linear approach to history through the multiple temporalities of the material. Artists working in Greece and internationally will explore the defining role Archaeology plays in forming national narratives and collective memory along with its dialectical relationship with cultural heritage.
The Primary Fact; An Ancient Greek mass grave with 80 dead prisoners was discovered two years ago in Paleo Faliro. The Japanese visual artist Hikaru Fujii returns to the FFF5 and after extensive research, in collaboration with the choreographer Patricia Apergi, Aerites Dance Company and the people in charge of the archeological excavation, he turns his eye to this astounding find, spotlighting the "dark" pre-Golden Age Athens of the 7th century BCE. The audiovisual installation that he mounts in an emblematic building of the academic community, the former Chemistry building, which is now the Law School library, includes interviews with those in charge of the excavation – from archaeologists to dentists – and the reenactment of the execution and the burial by a chorus of young Athenians.
More Info: Sgt | fff5
Re: ῥεῖ START
2018
MARCH/MAY
Re: ῥεῖ START is a performance piece created in dialogue with the art works and sculptures of the artist Marianna Lyra.
In an abandoned car workshop on Syngrou Avenue, the painter and sculptress set up last year the artistic project ῥεῖ START, combining painting, sculpture and installations. "Re: ῥεῖ START" suggests : nine performers to present an original score of "physical narrative" - as the collective group describes it - in which the "re-start" acts as a "threshold" for the viewer to discover new ways of viewing the work is space and time.
More info: LIFO | HUFFINGTONPOST | IMAGES: ELENA KANAKI
ROMÉO ET JULIETTE
2018
FEBRUARY/MARCH
The Greek National Opera - GNO - Stavros Niarchos Hall, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, celebrates the FRENCH OPERA CYCLE and the 200 years since the birth of Charles Gounod. Charles Gounod’s 5 act opera Roméo et Juliette is being staged for the very first time in the GNO’s history and is the first of a series of works from the French repertoire which will be presented by the GNO over the next 3 years.
More info: GNO | image: alban bassuet
The Thread
2017
DECEMBER
The research project for new creation of 'The Thread' has already began. The Thread is a dance performance, staged by acclaimed British choreographer Russell Maliphant and set within the explosive electronic music of world-renowned and academy award winner, Greek composer Vangelis Papathanasiou. The artistic vision is completed by Michael Hulls’ innovative light design and Mary Katrantzou’s imaginative costumes, along with a cast of 18 dancers on stage.
The piece is scheduled for its world premier as part of the Sadler's Wells 2019 season. World tour dates to be announced.
more info: Sadler's Wells
ÜBUNG IN TRAUER/
EXERCISE IN MOURNING
2017
OCTOBER
EXERCISE IN MOURNING created by Maria Magdalena Ludewig, Stylianos Tsatsos, Marie Stolze & Rainer Casper commemorates 64 hours performance piece of an emergency state, a collective practice in grief – intense, exhausting, restless, radical.
For the Season Opening 2017/18 of Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg, Maria Magdalena Ludewig & Guests exercise rituals of grief. No society can make do without them. They define the community, offer support and celebrate death as a part of life – many of them have been forgotten. Death has become a private failure or a medical mistake. Showing sadness and pain openly threatens routine productivity.
More Info: Kampnagel.de | ImageS: © Ellie Tsatsou
TEDxAcademy
2017
SEPTEMBER
Andonis Foniadakis is an internationally renowned dancer and choreographer, resident choreographer of the Greek National Ballet Opera and founder of Apotosoma dance Co. Through his talk for TEDxAcademy 2017based on Human Dimensions, he will discuss the ways in which art has shaped him as a person.
More info: TEDxAcademy | LIve Stream
SINGING STONES
2017
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
Singing Stones, curated by the Palais de Tokyo’s Katell Jaffrès, brings together 11 emerging artists from both the French and Chicago art scenes, as part of the first Hors les Murs exhibition in the United States, in partnership with the Institut français. Presented within The Roundhouse—a 17,000 sq. ft space built in 1881 and designed by Burnham & Root—at the DuSable Museum of African American History, the exhibition will present an intimate dialogue between original productions and pre-existing works to open during the sixth edition of EXPO CHICAGO, and will run concurrently through the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. The exhibition design will involve a strong architectural component through a partnership with the Graham Foundation with Guest Designer Andrew Schachman, to collaborate with Jaffrès on a singular approach to the space and exhibition design.
'Score for machines and bodies' a work by Thomas Teurlai & Stylianos Tsatsos created for the 'Prec(ar)ious Collectives' exhibition in Athens parallel to Documenta14, will be shown during the 'Singing Stones' exhibition in Chicago.
In partnership with EXPO CHICAGO, alongside The Chicago Architecture Biennial, in collaboration with the DuSable Museum of African American History, Mana Contemporary Chicago, the Graham Foundation, and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
More Info: Artsy | EXPOCHICAGO | Palais de Tokyo | Poster: © Assaf Evron, Stylianos Tsatsos | Performer: Ioulia zacharaki
DÉS/ÉQUILIBRE/S
2017
JUNE
The Artistic director of the GNO Ballet, Andonis Foniadakis, choreographs a two-dimensional performance and distributes the scene to the discipline and strict structure of the Ballet dancers of the Greek National Opera, and to the bodily, anti-conformism and freedom of contemporary dance in a collaboration with 12 freelance dancers from the greek scene, maintaining as a common denominator the movement dialogues, accompanied by the evocative music scores of Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi emblem and from Façades, company movements I & II from the quartet no 2 Symphony no 3).
Choreography: Andonis Foniadakis
Music: Philip Glass, Julien Tarride
Lighting Design: Sakis Birbilis
Costumes: Anastasios Sofroniou
More Info: SNFestival | Image: © Agapios Agapiadis
FAÇADES
Choreography: Andonis Foniadakis
Music: Philip Glass, Julien Tarride
Lighting Design: Sakis Birbilis
Costumes: Anastasios Sofroniou
PREC(AR)IOUS COLLECTIVES
2017
APRIL
In parallel to documenta 14, Palais de Tokyo and its research lab, Pavillon Neuflize OBC, the artist-in-residence programme of Palais de Tokyo, alongside the artists - choreographers of Foundation Fluxum/Flux Laboratory, present “Prec(ar)ious Collectives”. An exhibiton/performance which questions the notion of community as a situation and not as a subject to illustrate. The ambition is to invent, the time of an experience of collective creation, a fictional “us” as a way of escaping the assigned identities.
Presented two collaborative works;
'Details of score for machines and bodies' a work by Thomas Teurlai & Stylianos Tsatsos. Original cast: Stylianos Tsatsos, Ioulia Zacharaki.
'Untitled_23' a work by Wataru Tominaga & Stylianos Tsatsos. Original cast: Stylianos Tsatsos, Dimitra Vlachou.
Curator: Fabien Danesi
Choreographic curator: Andonis Foniadakis
Sound artist: Julian Perez
More Info: Palais de Tokyo | Flux Laboratory | Purple Diary | CNN | Images: © Chris Kontos | Film & image: © Mao Tao
FIGURE HUMAINE
2017
JANUARY
Sasha Waltz & Guests shortly before the official opening of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, invites the audience for a choreographic and musical exploration of the space inside. The choreographic Installation » Figure Humaine « by Sasha Waltz & Guests involves about 80 musicians, singers and the dancers of her compagnie, inaugurates the Foyers and passes through the Grand Hall of this extraordinary building .
More Info: SW&G | Elbphilharmonie | Arte | Full Movie
UNDO MUNDRA
2016
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER
Participant piece in the solo creations category for the 21st International Contemporary Dance Festival of The Canary Islands, Masdanza21.
Choreography: Gabriel Galindez Cruz
Soloist: Stylianos Tsatsos
Music: Hespérion XXI “Las estrellas de los cielos”
Images: © Courtesy of MasDanza21
ZWEI GIRAFFEN TANZEN TANGO/BREMER SCHRITTE
2016
JUNE & SEPTEMBER
In 2016, choreographer Helge Letonja undertakes the artistic questioning of Gerhard Bohner 's Ensemblestück as a creative dialogue with the dance story with "Two Giraffes Dancing Tango - Bremer Schritte". 36 years lie between the work of one and the other choreographer. A production of Steptext dance project in coproduction with the Theater Bremen. In cooperation with the German Tanzfilmstitut Bremen and with scientific advice from the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
More Info: THEATERBREMEN | Image: © Stylianos Tsatsos, M.Menke
OPEN FRONTIERS
2015
JUNE
The Hellenic Dance Company and the artistic director Pavlina Veremi, bring to the scene of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival (2015) / Megaron Athens Concert Hall (2014), the modest performance entitled "Open Frontiers", aiming through the four selected choreographic works of Martha Graham, Akram Khan, Anton Lachky, Pascal Rioult to arise public awareness about social conditions and the deep existential crisis of our times.
Repertoire: Vertical Road - Choreography: Akram Khan
Creation: No more Fairytales - Choreography: Anton Lachky
More Info: GNSD Vimeo | Athens&Epidaurus Festival | Images: © Evi Fylaktou
