AWAL / BEGINNING (tanzschreiber.de)

A trip out to Berlin's Indonesian Cultural Centre finished my year publishing for Tanzschreiber.de, with a look at Ruben Reiners and collaborators total work AWAL / BEGINNING.

https://tanzschreiber.de/en/a-phantasmagoric-gamelan-frenzy/

Some Uncertainty in the Relationship (“The Inevitable and You”, at tanzschreiber.de)

A certain ‘sliding doors’ approach to interpersonal relationships and the realities they create marks Sita Ostheimer Company’s premiere “The Inevitable and You”, playing at DOCK 11 from 8 to 11 December 2022.

 Full text over at tanzschreiber.de - https://tanzschreiber.de/en/some-uncertainty-in-the-relationship/

Die Steuer-Erklärung (tanzschreiber.de)

Facing my darkest fears of the German state, I bravely marched into Berlin-Basel based hannsjana's Die Steuer-Erklärung (which would translate to The Tax Declaration), the first show for Tanzschreiber.de that was all in German language.

While I speculate on its capacity to make real change to its chosen target, there can be no doubting the target itself. Maybe it should be surprising to me that I haven't seen a show about tax in Germany until now....

More after the jump.

https://tanzschreiber.de/en/die-steuer-erklaerung/

Dancing with Violence (tanzschreiber.de)

 A review of Min Yoon's Dancing with Violence as Hosek Contemporary:

 https://tanzschreiber.de/en/in-the-dark-dark-ship/

Contemporary Freedom and the New Crisis of Theatre Between Ideological Extremism and the 'Cancel Culture' Bratislava: paper

Back in May, I presented some reflections on 'Cancel Culture' within theatre at the festival Nova Drama, as part of the conference  "New Crisis of Theatre Between Ideological Extremism and the 'Cancel Culture'"

Richard Pettifer - "Cancel Culture and its Purifying Appropriations", Nova Drama Conference, Bratislava, May 2022 from Richard Pettifer on Vimeo.

Pepe Dayaw: a portrait performance (tanzschreiber.de)

 Over at Tanzschreiber again, my review of Pepe Dayaw: a portrait performance at Ballhaus Naunystraße.

https://tanzschreiber.de/en/floating-over-the-philippines/

Take me somewhere nice (tanzschreiber.de)

I was recently appointed as one of three critics for Berlin's only dedicated online dance criticism platform, Tanzschreiber.de.

I will be writing about dance in Berlin twice a month, in English with the occasional German translation.

My first article is about Christina Ciupke and Darko Dragičević’s Take me somewhere nice, a work that investigates the essence of travel.

Link is here: 

https://tanzschreiber.de/en/a-brief-chance-for-dwelling/