Potsdamer Tanztage 2025: Tanz im städtischen Raum

In the organizer's words:

Presence - An echo from the south of the world
Felipe Fizkal (Berlin) / HZT Berlin - MA Choreography
Fri May 16, 2025 | 17:00
Sun May 18, 2025 | 16:00
Kunsthaus sans titre

Cumbia is a mixture of pre-colonial indigenous music and rhythmic elements that were brought to South America by African slaves during colonization. Today, cumbia is widespread throughout the South American continent and takes on different forms in the celebrations of different generations of the lower classes. In this solo, South American choreographer Felipe Fizkal presents an interpretation of cumbia as a musical genre and dance practice.

Even Strong Winds Can't Destroy My Hair
Johanna Jörns (Berlin) / HZT Berlin - MA Choreography
Fri May 16, 2025 | 18:00
Sun May 18, 2025 | 17:00
Schiffbauergasse

"I keep going. Hold on. A little more is still possible. Am I being too stubborn?"
In her performance, choreographer Johanna Jörns explores the complexity of perseverance - between strength and lightness, resistance and devotion. She explores how perseverance changes in the body, when it becomes a source of strength and when it becomes a burden. The work deals with endurance, limits and the change between tension and release.

Goulash
Zsombor Szabo (Berlin) / HZT Berlin - MA Choreography
Fri May 16, 2025 | 18:00
Sun May 18, 2025 | 17:00
Schiffbauergasse

Zsombor Szabo explores self-pity in this choreographic research. The dancers' experiences initially give rise to solos that later interact with each other in a room within a room, supported by a percussionist. The aim is to create a composition that shows how a lack of empathy creates an endless loop. The title Goulash refers to Szabo's Hungarian heritage and symbolizes an attitude of irresponsibility, waiting for others to find a solution.

U:RI - 우리 (We / us)
ZINADA (Munich/Seoul)
Sat May 17, 2025 | 15:00
Schiffbauergasse (meeting point: T-Werk)

Discovering movements and developing a performance is like writing a poem. It is a search for different feelings, colors, rhythms, textures, smells and sounds. Over three days, Jin Lee and Jihun Choi explore movement material together with young people, dance and write a physical poem about "we/us" and "me". They explore their own physical limits, see what they and others are capable of and transfer this energy as individuals and groups into a powerful, creative performance.

Entre Deux
World premiere
101 concrete company (Potsdam)
Sun May 18, 2025 | 16:00 | Schiffbauergasse (table tennis table at Café Wiesel)
Fri May 23, 2025 | Performance in schools in Potsdam
Sat May 24, 2025 | 18:00 | urban space

How does togetherness work? What potential can it unleash? In Entre Deux, the audience follows two protagonists in an acrobatic dance as they measure their possibilities, embrace opportunities, explore their limits and balance their desires. They transform a table tennis table, an omnipresent urban object in public space, into their 360-degree stage and play on it with elements of Art du Déplacement, dance, partnering and body percussion.

Everyone here is a bit of a horse
A choreographic tutorial of resistance
Vera Shchelkina (Berlin) / HZT Berlin - MA Choreography
Thu May 22, 2025 | 18:00
Fri May 23, 2025 | 17:00
Schiffbauergasse

This tutorial is about the rupture that occurs when the warm and tender inner animal looks in the mirror and recognizes its own tormentor: a dog sees a leash, a horse sees a whip, a teenager sees a future adult. In this tutorial, Vera Schchelkina tries together with the audience how to resist this tormentor: purring, playing, biting, standing up straight, walking on four legs, changing to eye level. How can you resist becoming human?