»Run Time Anomaly« on 8. 9. November at Akademie der Künste
On 8 and 9 November, Simon Steen-Andersen's site-specific performance will have its world premiere at the Akademie der Künste Berlin with 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.
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.
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.
Simon Steen-Andersen
Wibke Storkan and László Sandig
Clara Fee Stürze, Nina Ballhause
Youth Dance Company Sasha Waltz & Guests
