Death, taxes, and excellent dance performances in August – these are among the few certainties you can rely on in our fallen world. Tanz im August (Aug 13-30) is back for its 37th edition. Among its headliners are the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company performing Kim Sungyong’s environmentally-minded Jungle and Brazil’s Companhia de Danças, which offers a moving reflection on borders with Lia Rodrigues’s Borda.
Closer to home yet even more high-octane is Munich-based Moritz Ostruschnjak’s Trailer Park, which, in this collaboration with tanzmainz and Sasha Weiss & Guests, seeks to interpolate the fast cuts of internet culture (cough: TikTok) from the virtual space onto Radialsystem’s mainstage. Berlin-based artist Ligia Lewis teams up with the Swedish Cullberg company to also translate from one medium to another.
In their collaboration, Some Thing Folk, they draw inspiration from the notoriously-hard-to-watch Russian science fiction classic How to Be a God, seeking to imagine a world that transcends nation and tribalism.
With performances across HAU, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Radialsystem and various unconventional spaces across the city, Tanz im August promises to surprise with its multiplicity even as it stands out as – despite the city’s culture cuts and the world’s upheaval – a happy constant and reliable certainty.
- Tanz im August, various locations, Aug 13-30, details.
