Potsdamer Tanztage 2026 – PNEU

In the organizer's words:

Tires of different sizes are scattered across the stage. One by one, four performers enter the space, each trying to create order according to their own ideas. Their approaches collide, constructions collapse and five hundred kilograms of rubber become both obstacle and partner. Inspired by the philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb's concept of antifragility, PNEU investigates how bodies react to pressure.

Lifting, rolling and balancing, the bodies move on the border between contemporary dance and circus. Gradually, the tension gives way to a shared dynamic and a flowing interplay of strength, precision and synchronicity emerges from disorder. Effort and resistance are not just a burden here, but the motor of development. Connection grows from friction, cooperation from instability. Between exhaustion and lightness, a choreographic dialog is created that asks whether growth is possible not despite, but precisely through pressure.

Afterwards on Fri 05 Jun: Audience discussion

On Fri 05 Jun | 11:00: School performance

Price information:

Free admission. Solidary cultural contribution welcome. School classes on Fri June 05 | 11:00: € 4