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Every August, Berlin hosts one of Europe’s largest annual dance festivals – Tanz im August (August 13 - September 4; tanzimaugust.de). This year, the 27th edition of the festival will be focusing on the relationship between visual art and dance. Atypically, the inaugurating event will be an exhibition rather than a performance and its venue will be the Hebbel am Ufer 1 theatre rather than the traditional White Cube. What’s more, the exhibition will be held for only one day, on August 13. The one-day showing is being put together in cooperation with the Sammlung Haubrok, a foundation set up by German conceptual art collectors Axel and Barbara Haubrok. Works by many illustrious artists will be represented, including Elmgreen and Dragset, Philippe Parreno, Willem de Rooij, Andreas Slominski, Carol Bove and Christopher Williams.
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One of the festival’s accents will be on Asian dance and one of the highlights will be a performance directed by rising young Chinese choreographer Tao Ye. The trance-like movements displayed by the dancers of his TAO Dance Theatre are inspired by meditative monastic drones and the martial arts, resulting in a captivating presentation.
Gehorsam / Obedience. © S. Boddeke & P. Greenaway. Photo: Digidaan
The Jewish Museum Berlin (Lindenstraße 9-14; jmberlin.de), for its part, is showcasing Obedience (Gehörsam), an installation by British film director Peter Greenaway and his wife, multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke. On view until September 13, the installation focuses on one of the most enigmatic events in the Bible – Abraham’s willingness to obey God's command and sacrifice his son Isaac – and provides an emotional voyage through 2,000 years of history through ancient writings, paintings, sculptures, film projections and music.
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One must-visit lifestyle destination is The Store (Torstraße 1; thestore-berlin.com) – a 2,800 m2 multifaceted space for shopping, eating and meeting people, among other things. Located in the private Soho House member’s club but open to the public, the gigantic premises serve simultaneously as a store, a restaurant and a bar in a friendly loft atmosphere. The place doesn’t feel like a store in the traditional sense, but almost everything within it can be purchased, including the chair on which you are sitting, the book that you are leafing through and the lamp that is hanging from the ceiling.
Intro photo: TAO Dance Theatre
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