Run Time Anomaly

World premiere of a site-specific performance by Simon Steen-Andersen at the Akademie der Künste, featuring the Youth Dance Company of Sasha Waltz & Guests

Together with the Sasha Waltz & Guests Youth Dance Company, Simon Steen-Andersen, Wibke Storkan, and László Sandig temporarily inhabit the iconic Akademie der Künste building on Hanseatenweg to explore direct modes of interaction between movement, body, sound, video, and stage, as well as shifted perspectives on the physical features of the architecture.

The experiences during the process are documented and interwoven with a more fantastical exploration – following a heterogeneous group of young people as they navigate an abandoned, alien structure where the laws of nature operate differently and gateways to dreamlike parallel realities begin to open.

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The result is a live performance, with the young dancers taking to a stage that extends into these transformed spaces, entering a play between the different levels of reality – all set to a soundscape of amplified movements, sub-frequencies that make bodies and buildings tremble, snippets of archived electronic music composed on-site, cinematic genre-textures, and the dancers’ own favourite sounds.

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Founded in 2005 by Sasha Waltz, the Children’s and Youth Dance Company focuses not only on teaching dance, but also on exploring individual physicality, creativity, mutual interaction, and empathy. Run Time Anomaly offers not only new perspectives on Düttmann's building from 1960, but also a portrait of a small community of young people, each with a different path and relation to dance.

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​Concept, direction, co-choreography, sound and video

Simon Steen-Andersen

Choreography and co-direction

Wibke Storkan and László Sandig

Costume Design

Clara Fee Stürzl und Nina Ballhause​

Dance

Youth Dance Company Sasha Waltz & Guests 

»Run Time Anomaly« is commissioned and produced by Voices Berlin Festival in cooperation with Akademie der Künste and Sasha Waltz & Guests.

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