Anita Berber – Rekonstruktionen / MS Schrittmacher (Berlin)

In the organizer's words:

Provocative, radical, uncompromising: Anita Berber (1899-1928) was one of the most fascinating artists of the Weimar Republic. As a dancer, choreographer and icon of her time, she shaped modern dance with her expressive style and uncompromising physicality. She became a myth between art and excess and at the same time an early icon of feminist self-dramatization and artistic freedom.

In the lecture performance by Martin Stiefermann and Brit Rodemund, Berber's life and work will be re-examined beyond the scandals. Accompanied by pianist David Schwarz, reconstructed solos are danced and vividly interwoven with rare archive material and dance research findings. The basis is, among other things, the work Anita Berberová -Studie by choreographer Joe Jenčík from 1930, published in German by MS Schrittmacher - an impressive source of forgotten dance history.

See also on Wed 03 Dec: The eternal dance / Reading with Steffen Schroeder