NEXT GENERATION

Graduates of the MA Choreography program at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden under the direction of Katharina Christl, head of the Choreography program

The TANZ | MODERNE | TANZ festival will once again become a stage for young choreographic signatures – and on this evening will bring together very different works by graduates of the MA Choreography program at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden.

On the one hand, there is Jack Bannermann from Australia. The freelance choreographer and visual artist has presented his work for the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, the Florence Dance Festival, the Tanzzentrale Nürnberg and the Tanznetz Dresden. In Chemnitz, he will be showing “Do you feel at home?”, a duo with Gavin Law. He questions the feeling of belonging with the means of dance and language. So how can familiarity be found, even if “home” is geographically far away?

In contrast, the duet “norm Practice” by choreographers Yuexuan Gui and Shiyu Liu, deals with objectification and dehumanization in the context of social norms. By questioning conventional perceptions and deciphering the complexity of normality and abnormality, the piece aims to encourage self-reflection and dialog. Born in China, she has previously shown her work at the Theater Pforzheim, the Beijing Dance Festival and the Venice Biennale di Danza, among others.

The next contribution is from Charles A. Washington. The choreographer, performer and musician is the artistic director of the dance company Pinkmetalpetal Productions and has been a member of the TanzNetzDresden board since 2024. He will be performing “The Final Chapter”, for which he also created the costumes, lighting design and music himself. For the composition “Acid”, he shows the development of movement into gestures that flow like waves of understanding in narrative situations. This choreographic game cleverly stimulates the audience’s imagination and creates an open arena for the exploration of personal stories.

Last but not least, Odbayar Batsuuri is bringing two works to the festival: firstly his self-performed solo “In the Inside” and secondly the duet “Future Race”. While the solo is dedicated to the complicated interplay between cheerful and unpleasant moments and shows the inner world as a battlefield on which emotions and intellect perform a delicate dance, the duet with Seraphine Detscher is a metaphor for a parent-child relationship. The joint work with the Dresden-based dancer and choreographer tells the story of how adults prepare their offspring for a performance-oriented society, much like coaches prepare their athletes. Born in Mongolia, Odbayar Batsuuri completed his dance training at the Mongolian State Conservatory and came to Germany to study choreography after a 14-year dance career. He was invited to the Gdansk Dance Festival and Solocoreografico – Solo Dance Festival 2023 with “In The Inside”. Seraphine Detscher works with the 4roomsCompany in Dresden’s dance scene both as a dancer and as a choreographer.

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