Dance Festival Re:Move

Dance of the 20th century

We show work by choreographers who reinterpret key pieces in the history of twentieth-century dance: from the 1913 Sacre du Printemps (Xavier Le Roy), through Mary Wigman’s 1929 dance cycle (Fabián Barba) to the postmodern dance of the great master Merce Cunningham (Boris Charmatz). The Steijn, Poelstra and Siewert trio – together called United Sorry – examines the most feminine of all art forms from a male point of view, focusing on such female pioneers as Martha Graham and Trisha Brown. Rachel Krische has adapted a solo by the American choreographer Deborah Hay. Jérôme Bel has the dancer Lutz Förster look back at his career with Pina Bausch. Transmitting one’s own material is also the subject of some performances: deufert+plischke ask the American DD Dorvillier to reformulate their work. Vincent Dunoyer takes up the role of choreographer to teach five dancers parts he had previously performed himself. Jonathan Burrows is continuing to work on the notion of ‘translation’, one of his favourite themes. In each case, the starting point is the here and now – the artist’s own methods – rather than performing an ‘historical’ reconstruction.

And now, dance!

Apart from all these fines things you can also watch a huge number of dance videos – completely free of charge – and to bring the festival to a festive close you can, under the expert guidance of Maria Clara Villa Lobos, dance twentieth-century dance yourself at a lively tempo. Do that dance!