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TANZTAGE BERLIN 2022
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    • A Strategy for the Fragile
    • Cyber Ghosts
    • DANDELION II
    • Death Valley Junction
    • Debris in a Skin-Tight Corset
    • DOOM
    • evening.haiku
    • infinity rug
    • La Cosa Piel
    • NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTER
    • Perpetual Archive
    • showdown
    • Terrain Körper: Eine haptische Forschungsreise
    • Time of the Angel
    • You Judge
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infinity rug infinity rug January 22
Lulu Obermayer Lulu Obermayer Death Valley Junction Death Valley Junction January 21 22
Djibril Sall Djibril Sall evening.haiku evening.haiku January 19 20
Robert Ssempijja Robert Ssempijja You Judge You Judge January 19 20
Enad Marouf Enad Marouf Time of the Angel Time of the Angel January 19–22
Rita Mazza Rita Mazza DANDELION II DANDELION II January 17 18
Shiori Tada Shiori Tada A Strategy for the Fragile A Strategy for the Fragile January 17 18
James Batchelor & Collaborators James Batchelor & Collaborators Terrain Körper Terrain Körper January 16
Layton Lachman/Samuel Hertz Layton Lachman/Samuel Hertz DOOM DOOM January 15 16
Ana Lessing Menjibar Ana Lessing Menjibar Perpetual Archive Perpetual Archive January 13 14
Julia Plawgo Julia Plawgo NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTER NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTER January 11 12
Juan Pablo Cámara Juan Pablo Cámara La Cosa Piel La Cosa Piel January 11 12
Kiana Rezvani Kiana Rezvani Cyber Ghosts Cyber Ghosts January 08 09
tiran/Nkisi tiran/Nkisi (bb) (bb) January 06 07
Cassie Augusta Jørgensen Cassie Augusta Jørgensen Debris in a Skin-Tight Corset Debris in a Skin-Tight Corset January 06 07
Judith Förster Judith Förster showdown showdown January 06–12

In tandem with emerging dance artists connected to our city, Tanztage Berlin 2022 continues to examine what keeps us together and tears us apart. It also asks questions about dance’s ability to heal the individual and the collective body in times of distress. After 2021, the festival took place exclusively online – presenting perspectives on the near and distant future, work culture, care practices and (mental) health – its 31st edition returns as an extended offline and online program. Alongside the last year’s selection of performances, it includes new creations and discourse formats on power, protest, and empowerment.

The music video to the 2011 pop anthem Till the World Ends by Britney Spears depicts the artist throwing an underground party as the apocalypse approaches. The city is burning, debris is falling from the sky, but she is executing synchronized choreographies with a crowd of people, as in some modern-day version of dancing plague, convincing the listeners to “keep on dancing till the world ends”. But what kind of dance do we need when the apocalypse is more of a chronic menace than a story with a climax? And how does it feel to be a body in a never-ending state of emergency?

The work presented during Tanztage Berlin 2022 critically navigates the present by reimagining past and future encounters on the dance floor. While dealing with acute problems like power relations, surveillance, disembodiment, or climate change, it tunes into the social body, creating much-needed moments of awareness, connectedness and self-determination. Unlike the 21st-century billionaire strategy of abandoning earth in a rocket ship or escaping into a parallel virtual universe, the festival chooses instead to stay with the trouble: to celebrate dancing together through the crisis and against despair.