Potsdamer Tanztage 2026 – the intimacy of collision

In the organizer's words:

Bodies circle each other. A singing voice fills the room. Footsteps echo on the floor. Body and breath merge in a collective relaxation. With a focus on form and rhythm, Dominique Tegho deconstructs "Middle Eastern" folk dances in the intimacy of collision and brings them into a dialog with contemporary movement vocabulary.

The piece forms a dancing body that stirs up and breaks through orientalist ideas formed in Western Europe. Three performers draw on the rhythmic structures of dabke and the cyclical loops of baladi to create a dance that oscillates between rage and celebration. The performance turns to the many variations of the dance of the seven veils, an orientalist spectacle that Oscar Wilde first made his own in the play Salome in 1893. With friction, collision and encounter, Dominique Tegho questions the Orientalism that has shaped the perception of bodies in more than a century of Western imagination.

Followed by an audience discussion on Tue 02 Jun

Price information:

Price group D Advance booking: € 16 / reduced € 8 Box Office: € 17 / reduced € 8 Festival pass: € 90 / reduced € 45 Double ticket with The wind rises on Mon 01 Jun: Price group C Double ticket with Undercurrents on Tue 02 Jun: Price group C Advance booking starts on April 01, 2026.