20 years after the death of Gerhard Bohner, and 70 years after the death of Oskar Schlemmer, the Academy of the Arts reconstructed the Bauhaus ballet in co-operation with the Bavarian State Ballet II.
The first part of the three-part Stravinsky evening Frühlingsopfer (Rite of Spring), Wind Von West was reconstructed with dancers from the Folkwang University of the Arts and the Julliard School in New York.
Angela Guerreiro investigated the connections between German contemporary dance and the Judson Dance Theatre in New York. Dancers, choreographers, students, teachers and experts came together for the six-day symposium.
The ballet company of the Hessian State Theatre of Wiesbaden, in co-operation with Ensemble Modern, demonstrated the importance of Laban’s Movement Study for dance today.
Yvonne Georgi was one of the most important expressionist dance choreographers. Ricardo Fernando and his ensemble used a recording to reconstruct her choreography Glück, Tod und Traum.
The ballet company of the Nationaltheater Mannheim dedicated itself to Isadora Duncan, a pioneer of modern dance. A series of events was developed based on Duncan’s 1907 performance in the city.
In the 1990s, dance in the German state of Hesse and the country as a whole was heavily influenced by Rui Horta and his company SOAP. Tanzcompagnie Gießen restaged two of Horta’s works with Horta himself as director.
Christoph Winkler looked at a specific form of memory that is contained in the choreographic practice itself. At the same time, he took a critical look at how history is understood in dance today.
Choreographers Christina Ciupke and Anna Till looked at how information about past dances by Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss, Dore Hoyer, Pina Bausch and William Forsythe has reached us today.
Scandal is the reason most people know about this 1920s dance icon, but Anita Berber was also an international star with great ability. This festival by and with MS Schrittmacher was dedicated to Berber as a dancer.
Leipzig Ballett restaged Uwe Scholz's 1992 choreography Pax Questuosa, which looks at the socio-political situation in the world and in reunified Germany post-Cold War.
Under the direction of Steffen Fuchs, Ballett Koblenz restaged two choreographies by Uwe Scholz – Dans la Marche and Die 1000 Grüße. Fuchs rounded off the evening with a homage to Scholz.
How has colonialism influenced German dance? Work with choreographers from three continents produced formats and performances that continued and rewrote this forgotten chapter of German dance history.
MOUVOIR’s walk-in installation The Memory Machine used contemporary witness reports to bring dance history between 1980 and 2000, a period marked by new concepts and styles, to life.
Based on his own experience as a dancer in Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps, Josep Caballero García looked at five key female roles in German dance history from the perspective of male dancers.
In 1991, Susanne Linke created a choreography based on the work of men in steel factories and coalmines. In 2014, she restaged the piece with dancers from the Renegade ensemble.
An installation that brought together images of key works by 12 20th century choreographers and directors as well as archive material and video portraits.