Back to modernity: Sasha Waltz’s Sacre

Sasha Waltz & Guests in L'Après-midi d'un faune

Justribó Manion and Joel Suárez Gómez in Scène d'amour

Sasha Waltz & Guests in Sacre

Hwanhee Hwang and ensemble in Sacre

By Katja Vaghi, 30 June 2024

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“the vulnerability of naked bodies is gripping”

Reviewed at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin on 27 June 2024

L'après-midi d'un faune (Sasha Waltz)

Scène d'amour (Sasha Waltz)

Sacre (Sasha Waltz)

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Hwanhee Hwang, Dancer

Sasha Waltz and Guests' Rauschen premieres at the Volksbühne

Katja Vaghi, 7th March

Only a couple of months after the reprise of Körper and Kreatur, Rauschen, Sasha Waltz' & Guests' new marathon of images, talks of robots, confessions of violence and archaic tribes.

****1

Sasha Waltz’s Kreatur at the Radialsystem

Katja Vaghi, 19th December

After a long break from creations solely for dance, Sasha Waltz’s Kreatur is a step into a new aesthetic direction presenting the body as a living unit of microcells and anatomical fragments at the Radialsystem

****1

No body left behind: Sasha Waltz & Guest and Hans Peter Kuhn Körper

Katja Vaghi, 6th December

A mesmerising catalogue of the body’s uses and abuses in our society, Sasha Waltz & Guest presents Körper an old-time favourite at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

*****

Celebrating 25 years of creative vortex

Katja Vaghi, 7th April

Anniversaries are best celebrated with friends: Sasha Waltz & Guests’ “dialogue – wirbel: improvisationen” is a magical celebration of 25 years of Waltz’ unique universe at the Radialsystem in Berlin

****1

Körper, an architectural dance

Graham Watts, 1st March

Not for anyone seeking an evening of entertaining dance theatre – dance is seldom used but when it comes, it is to great effect – but it is certainly a challenging treatise on our perceptions of body (and also gender) norms

***11

A humanizing force: spellbinding Brahms

Sacha Evans, 16th October

Performers often speak of ecstatic moments. But that ecstasy doesn't always transfer beyond the stage. This was an extraordinary effort to bridge the divide.

*****

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Katja Vaghi

With a background in Dance Studies, Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies from Zurich University and PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton in London) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance researcher and dramaturge currently living in Berlin.

Back to modernity: Sasha Waltz’s Sacre at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele