williamaveryhudson

The centerpiece of Tanz im August, “Coming Soon.” How can I summarize 12 hours of vision?

The choreographer/architect Paul Gazzola created this event. A long story, but it ended with 59 videotaped interviews with choreographers in Berlin describing their ideal rehearsal spaces. An amazing document. Not only does it offer great architectural source material, but it also gives an intimate picture of current performance theory.

Cultural production was the topic - these artists took time in Berlin’s punishing March to be videotaped. I believe they can transform performance spaces in the 21st century.

Contributors:
Adalisa Menghini
Alex B
Alexandre Riccoli
Ami Garmon
Andreas Albert Muller
Anja Ehrenberg
Benjamin Schalike
Be van Vark
Britta Pudelko
Carmen Mehnert
Cecile Buclin
Christina Ciupke
Christina Runge
Clint Lutes
Constanza Macras
Davide Camplani
Diane Busuttil
Elettra de Salvo
Fernanda Guimaraes
Francesca Patrone
Franziska Kohler
Friederike Plafki
Gabi Beier
Gabriel Galindez Cruz
Gritt Koppen
Hanna Hegenscheidt
Hanna Sybille Muller
Irina Muller
Jenny Haack
Jess Curtis
Karin Kirchhoff
Kirstin Burger
Laurie Young
Lena Braun
Lindy Annis
Lisa Densem
Lito Walkey
Martin Clausen
Massimiliano Pagliara
Mathis Kleinschnittger
Maurizio Gianneti
Max Schumacher
Maximillian Stetzl
Nir de Volff/Total Brutal
Patricia Woltmann
Peter Pleyer
Petra Sabisch
Philippe Rives
Rainer Hustedt
Raliza Nikolowa
Siegmar Zacharias
Sten Rudstrom
Susanne Foellmer
Susanne Martin
Thilo Wittenbecher
Tomi Paasonen
Ulrike Becker
Vera Knolle
Yvonne Hardt

Read the Tanz im August profile.

tags: berlin architecture creative economy dance

Comments & Links Appreciated!

Jonathan Allen reports in Reuters about Hansdehar, a rural village in northern India, which has taken the extraordinary step of posting a sketch of itself on the web. Hansdehar’s website (www.smartvillages.org) details the village’s vital statistics, development needs, and assets - down to its photo-ops for intrepid tourists.

The site promises more villages to come - definitely one to bookmark, watch, and support in any way you can.

tags: india rural development internet

An amazing city to walk in August. Temperate, with mountain-like hills. These thumbnails don’t do justice to the sheer visual beauty. Email me for larger files.

tags: prague architecture

Who would’ve thought? Berlin is a bowler’s paradise! More than 50 alleys in the city (you can find all of them at http://www.bowlinglinks.de/bahnen_d.htm#Berlin).

Tonight I tried my first. BowlingCenter am Alexanderplatz (www.bowling-am-alex.de).

A beautifully maintained classic from the DDR. Heavenly. Great atmosphere, wonderful people. Someone must document this priceless legacy and living art form.

tags: berlin bowling

One of this amazing city’s most amazing quarters. Daniel Libeskind’s Jüdisches Museum and the Türkenmarkt am Maybachufer, among others. Just an introduction.

tags: berlin architecture

This is important. Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are opening their syllabi, lecture notes, lectures, problem sets and solutions, and exams to one and all. To start, just go to the MIT OpenCourseWare website.

tags: education –>

The architecture says it all. Many villages stitched together to form a city. The whole is greater than its parts, but - miraculously - the parts are also greater than the whole. A lesson about the individual.

tags: berlin architecture

Let’s take another break from words (you can scroll to previous entry for lots of those). What sky!

Such a healthy plant.

tags: berlin architecture