Showing of Children- and Youth Dance Company Sasha Waltz & Guests
On 30 June and 1 July 2025, around 100 young dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests' children's and youth dance company will once again showcase what they have been working on over the past year in their annual showing at Berlin's Radialsystem.
For the second time, the youngest children aged 6 to 9 from Group 1 will also be performing. This time with the piece »Treeeees«, accompanied by live music (piano: Neslihan Schmidt).
The young dancers of Group 2 (aged 9 to 11) will perform »Welleneffekt«, a piece that explores dialogue with live music (Alexander Nickmann) and their playful connection to percussion.
Afterwards, around 20 young dancers from Group 3 (ages 11 to 14) explore questions of identity, belonging, boundaries and community in the production »Constantly becoming«: Who am I, who do I want to be and who are we? Using a rope as both material and object, they explore knotting, wrapping, tension, weaving, swinging and hanging.
After a short break, the oldest group (14+) will present their latest piece, »NEXUS«: In a world full of divisive conflicts and existential crises, choreographer Wibke Storkan, together with a group of 27 teenagers/young adults and musician Ali Hasan, searches for what connects, interweaves, promotes community and provides support. The piece »NEXUS« links questions about our responsibility in the world and the transformative potential of collective creativity. The rhythm set in motion, the shared carrying of weight, the collective breathing and music open up a space of collectivity in which we can recognise ourselves as different and understand ourselves as equal.
A playful approach to movement and dance is the basis of the work of Sasha Waltz & Guests' children's and youth dance company at Radialsystem, which has been growing every year for more than 18 years. In 2006, Sasha Waltz consolidated her work with young dancers, which she had begun in 2004 with a project in cooperation with ‘TanzZeit – Tanz in Schulen’ and subsequently continued independently. Since then, the work of Sasha Waltz & Guests' children's and youth dance company has been continuously developed and expanded with a permanent home in our studio at Radialsystem, Berlin. Today, the young dancers are individually supported in four groups divided according to age. Based on playful and experimental approaches, the children and young people can train their movement and further develop their talents.
