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TANDEM: Advancing Dance Through Innovative Training

During 2024 we had the pleasure to be part of TANDEM, a professional training program that combines artistic production, academic education, practical experience in the live performance sector, and the acquisition of new digital skills applied to the performing arts. TANDEM was funded under the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Union, as a VET partnership between the Italian DNA dance company and Mediagrammi e.V.. Tandem … Continue reading TANDEM: Advancing Dance Through Innovative Training

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Everything is moving – From Potsdam’s Filmmuseum to Babelsberg exploring dance, art and cinema

 Which came first, dance or cinema? One would reasonably say: dance! And that’s the right answer if you think about the first forms of expression were born with the prehistoric communities and later on in Ancient Greece, during the Medieval Age, Renaissance until today. Moving bodies had very different meanings: on one hand it could’ve been a manifestation of power, while on the other side it might … Continue reading Everything is moving – From Potsdam’s Filmmuseum to Babelsberg exploring dance, art and cinema

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Nicola Campanelli for Connecting Fingers: “I left my job to dance in Berlin. Now I collaborate with choreographers from all over the world”

Nicola Campanelli is an Italian dancer for the company Connecting Fingers based in Berlin. After leaving his hometown, Naples, he started to teach pilates in his gym in Görlitzer Strasse. His dream, though, was dancing and he got it pretty soon in the city of contemporary dance par excellence. It is here that he started to collaborate with international choreographers and directors, performing different plays … Continue reading Nicola Campanelli for Connecting Fingers: “I left my job to dance in Berlin. Now I collaborate with choreographers from all over the world”

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VR games, mind travelling and Stasi’s interrogation: Daniel Sproll and Florian Conrad tell us about their projects in Berlin

Whenever you want to take a trip or escape somewhere out of reach, you can count on Virtual Reality. As Daniel Sproll has been doing since 2015 as CXO and cofounder of the startup Realities.io: they built up VR experiences, where you can finally arrive at your desired destination. Be it the top of a mountain, an ancient monument closed to the public or the stilts … Continue reading VR games, mind travelling and Stasi’s interrogation: Daniel Sproll and Florian Conrad tell us about their projects in Berlin

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The ‘Old Food’ of Ed Atkins is something disturbing, and you’re part of it

When you enter the “Old Food” exhibition by Ed Atkins, in Martin Gropius Bau, you could feel a little anxious. A gigantic baby, a foppish boy and a drowned man weeping stare at you so intensely that you cannot ignore them. Just take your eyes off those videos – or at least, you can try. But it won’t work. They continue to snob, drool and … Continue reading The ‘Old Food’ of Ed Atkins is something disturbing, and you’re part of it

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Virtual Reality is the future of video making, and that’s ok. But what’s next?

The first thing you need to know about Virtual Reality (VR) is that it has nothing to do with 360 video. As the movie “Avatar” taught us some years ago, the latter pushes you into a three-dimensional world, where you feel like you’re part of the scene but you’re still stuck into a kind of “bubble” you’re not able to cross. On the other hand, … Continue reading Virtual Reality is the future of video making, and that’s ok. But what’s next?

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Peeping Tom arrives in Berlin: “We show you the oppression of man”

We interviewed Franck Chartier from Belgian collective Peeping Tom over the course of Tanz im August festival, where they were present with “32 rue Vandenbranden”. One of the inspirational sources for this piece was Shohei Imamura’s The Ballad of Narayama where an old woman is taken to the top of mountain Narayama by her children, to die. Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier wanted to dig into … Continue reading Peeping Tom arrives in Berlin: “We show you the oppression of man”

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Meg Stuart for Tanz im August: “Material is alive, and we can dialogue with it”

We interviewed choreographer Meg Stuart over the course of the 28th Edition of Tanz im August Festival, where she was present with the solo “BLESSED”. An apocalyptic scenario in a stage format, including funny appearances by a Brazilian carnival dancer: a sonny boy, clad in white and sandals, stalks through a cardboard paradise with a Swan Lake swan, South Seas palm tree and hut. But soon … Continue reading Meg Stuart for Tanz im August: “Material is alive, and we can dialogue with it”

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Tanz im August: Interview with Motus

Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande share fascinating insights on the recently shown and much celebrated MDLSX. The bleeding pain and warm gratitude of Silvia Calderoni’s voice honor each and everyone’s fleeting being that cannot be contained within the borders of the body, skin color, sexual organs or boundaries of national identity. Silvia Calderoni’s strength is endearing to us as she takes on godly imageries of … Continue reading Tanz im August: Interview with Motus

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Sebastian Matthias takes the groove in Berlin, but not the ordinary way

We shape our urban surroundings collectively, often without even noticing it; this is how we create the daily groove of a city. For three years now, in his performance series groove space, Sebastian Matthias and his team of dancers have been investigating the essential features of this specific rhythm: the tactile collective movement of a city. The last performance in the series, x / groove … Continue reading Sebastian Matthias takes the groove in Berlin, but not the ordinary way

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