Cooperation with professional dancers

A basic idea of the project from the beginning was the open transfer of knowledge across national borders, especially against the background of current crises. The individual movement figures were recorded directly in video tutorials, which enable dancers to learn the choreographic material digitally and independently of their location.

The play has no stage design, light and costumes can be adapted and implemented with simple means. In this way, »In C« projects can also be created in unusual or remote locations in the long term and local dance scenes can be strengthened. The travel activity of Sasha Waltz & Guests can also be significantly reduced in view of the climate crisis. And the transfer of the material to other professional dance companies and corresponding (inter)national collaborations are also facilitated.

»In C« take over, Nagelhus Schia Productions, Oslo, premiere March 2023

©Tale Hendnes

Handovers to dance companies

In March 2023, the choreography was handed over to the Norwegian company Nagelhus Schia Productions, which has been touring the piece very successfully throughout Norway ever since. In February 2025, ARCHA+ in Prague added »In C« to its repertoire and is still dancing it. In April 2025 a handover to tanzmainz followed and in June 2025, the Dutch National Ballet took »In C« into its repertoire.

»In C« take over, ARCHA +, Prague, premier February 2025

©Ida Čápová

»In C«, tanzmainz meets Sasha Waltz & Guests, Mainz March 2025

In 2025, the two companies Sasha Waltz & Guests and tanzmainz worked together for the first time in a multi-part collaboration: the Berlin-based company kicked off the project with guest performances in Mainz in March. To mark the start of the tanzmainz festival #5 on 26 and 27 March, dancers from both ensembles performed Sasha Waltz's choreography »In C« to music by Terry Riley. Sasha Waltz & Guests also showed the much-toured production »Beethoven 7« as part of the festival on 29 March; all performances at the Staatstheater Mainz were accompanied live by the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz. After that, tanzmainz took »In C« into its current repertoire. In the summer of 2025, performances of »In C« with a mixed cast of dancers from both ensembles, as well as a guest performance by tanzmainz, marked the end of this extraordinary collaboration at Berlin's Radialsystem.

»In C-Jam: Performing« at Saal of Radialsystem in June 2025

In addition to the digital video tutorials, the company also offers workshops with experienced »In C« dancers and tutors from Sasha Waltz & Guests at regular intervals in order to learn the material and the rules together in a group - not only in Berlin, but also internationally. Workshops with local dancers have already taken place in New York, Barcelona, Rotterdam, London, Essen, Krakow, Chania, Havana, Palermo, Pesaro, Guadalajara, Caracas, Pune, Biella, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Ludwigsburg and Copenhagen among others. Since March 2021, more than 100 dancers worldwide have learned the material.

Since October 2022, the company has also been offering »In C«-Jams at their studio in Berlin's Radialsystem, open to everyone who has learned the choreographic material so far. In summer 2024, the company opened this format in the studio to a wider audience for the first time under the title »In C-Jam: Performing«. In summer 2025, the format was then presented to an even larger audience for the first time in the Saal of the Radialsystem in Berlin.