Potsdamer Tanztage: Kono Atari No Dokoka (Somewhere Around Here) | Michikazu Matsune (Wien) & Martine Pisani (Paris)

In the organizer's words:

With German and English surtitles.

Michikazu Matsune spent his childhood in Kobe, Martine Pisani in Marseille. The sound of cicadas and the smell of seawater connect them - as does dance, of course. In Kono Atari No Dokoka , Michikazu Matsune, Martine Pisani and Theo Kooijman take a look at the French choreographer's forty-year career. Video recordings from 1984 show Martine in one of her solos in Odile Duboc's dance studio. Michikazu tells how he decided to go to Europe to study dance after seeing Decouflé's opening choreography for the Winter Olympics in Albertville on television. Theo remembers dancing tango with Pina Bausch. Gradually, the audience immerses itself in Pisani's humorous universe and in the essence of her work: an unstable dance, characterized by the poetry of the unpredictable and the pure presence of the body, a dance purified of effects. The traces are also unstable: what remains of a performance and of one's own biography? Kono Atari No Dokoka is a homage to a choreographer who has been a regular guest at fabrik Potsdam for more than 25 years and has left her own personal mark on the building - even naming a tree in the fabrik garden Françoise...

Afterwards on both days: Audience discussion

Price information:

PRICE GROUP D Advance booking: € 16 / reduced € 8 Box Office: € 17 / reduced € 8 Double ticket with When the Bleeding Stops on Tue 28 May: PRICE GROUP C Advance booking: € 20 / reduced € 9 Box Office: € 21 / reduced € 9 Double ticket with No One's Land on Wed 29 May: PRICE GROUP B Advance booking: € 26 / reduced € 13 Box Office: € 27 / reduced € 13 Box Office: 27 € / reduced 13 € The advance booking tickets (except Festival Pass) are valid as a ticket for one person for the Berlin ABC area (Berlin/Potsdam) two hours before the start of the event and until 3:00 am on the following day.