Moving Bodies on Screen – mit Audience Choice Award
Tanz-Kurzfilm-Wettbewerb
DIE VERANSTALTUNG FINDET INDOOR IN DER WASCHHAUS-ARENA STATT!
(english version below)
Tanz auf der Leinwand: Internationale Kurzfilme zeigen, wie bewegend Tanz auch im Medium Film sein kann. Im Wettbewerb um den Publikumspreis entscheidet das Publikum, welcher Beitrag am meisten überzeugt. Eine filmische Reise durch vielfältige Bewegungswelten.
Moving Bodies – Dance Festival 2025
Potsdam tanzt wieder!
Nach dem erfolgreichen Auftakt im vergangenen Jahr kehrt Moving Bodies zurück: vom 22. bis 30. August 2025 verwandelt sich die Seebühne am Tiefen See erneut in einen pulsierenden Treffpunkt für alle, die Tanz in seiner ganzen Vielfalt erleben wollen.
Das Festival rückt den zeitgenössischen Tanz in den Fokus – mit einem Programm, das künstlerische Ausdruckskraft, internationale Perspektiven und interaktive Elemente miteinander verbindet. In vier eigenständigen Formaten entfaltet sich ein Panorama bewegender Geschichten, überraschender Choreografien und dynamischer Begegnungen – auf der Bühne und darüber hinaus.
Vier Formate – ein Festival:
22./23.08.2025, 21:00 Uhr
Storm under my Wings
Co-Produktion: Oxymoron Dance Company x ResExtensa
28.08.2025, 21:00 Uhr
Moving Bodies on Screen – mit Audience Choice Award
Kurzfilm-Wettbewerb
29.08.2025, 21:00 Uhr
Night of Short Pieces
Performances
30.08.2025, 14:00 Uhr, mit After-Show-Party
Battle in the Kettle goes Seebühne
Tanz-Battle
Moving Bodies – Ein Festival für die Sinne
Das Moving Bodies Festival lädt ein, Tanz nicht nur zu sehen, sondern zu erleben: sinnlich, interaktiv, international. Ob als Zuschauer:in oder Teilnehmende:r – auf der Seebühne am Tiefen See erwartet das Publikum ein abwechslungsreiches, inspirierendes und zutiefst bewegendes Programm.
Ort: Seebühne am Tiefen See, Schiffbauergasse, Potsdam
VERLEGT IN DIE WASCHHAUS-ARENA!
Zeitraum: 22. – 30. August 2025
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(english version)
Moving Bodies on Screen – with Audience Choice Award
Dance-Short-Film Competition
Dance on screen: International short films demonstrate how moving dance can be in the medium of film. In the competition for the Audience Choice Award, the audience decides which entry is most compelling. A cinematic journey through diverse worlds of movement.
Moving Bodies – Dance Festival 2025
Potsdam is dancing again!
After its successful debut last year, Moving Bodies returns: from August 22 to 30, 2025, the Seebühne at Tiefer See will once again be transformed into a vibrant meeting place for everyone who wants to experience dance in all its diversity.
The festival focuses on contemporary dance – with a program that combines artistic expression, international perspectives, and interactive elements. A panorama of moving stories, surprising choreographies, and dynamic encounters unfolds in four distinct formats – on stage and beyond.
Four formats – one festival:
August 22/23, 2025, 9:00 p.m.
Storm under my Wings
Co-production: Oxymoron Dance Company x ResExtensa
August 28, 2025, 9:00 p.m.
Moving Bodies on Screen – with Audience Choice Award
Short Film Competition
August 29, 2025, 9:00 p.m.
Night of Short Pieces
Performances
August 30, 2025, 2:00 p.m., with after-show party
Battle in the Kettle goes Seebühne
Dance Battle
Moving Bodies – A Festival for the Senses
The Moving Bodies Festival invites you to not only see dance, but to experience it: sensual, interactive and international. Whether as a spectator or participant, the audience can expect a diverse, inspiring, and deeply moving program on the Seebühne at Tiefer See.
Location: Waschhaus-Arena
Date: August 22–30, 2025
ARTISTS:
ALEKSANDRA KONONCHENKO
"ANIMA"
ANIMA (Latin for “soul”) is a poetic exploration of scars, on the body and the spirit, and how animal tattoos become talismans of memory, healing, and resistance. As ink meets skin, anima awakens: the primal, untamed self. A snake slithers over old wounds. A dog teaches what it means to be human. In Anima, the borders between species blur - grief becomes ritual, scars turn sacred, and the voice returns to its wild origins. Camera, editing and directing: Aleksandra Kononchenko.
Idea: Aleksandra Kononchenko
Concept: Mischa Badasyan
Performance, voice, texts: Katsia Kaya
Music: Katerina Sheveleva
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ANANDA & ROMINA & GIULIANA
"No Need for One Another"
No Need for One Another (Yet there is no gap I would rather fi ll than the one between each other) A short fi lm by Ananda Siml about the polarities of love. Two women navigate the fragile game of attraction in the dynamics of closeness and distance. A game with no winners, just two hearts in unison.
Chorrographed by Giuliana Piel and Romina Geppert
Cinematography by Fiete Treutler
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CHESSERON MARYSE
"KINTSUGI"
"KINTSUGI" is a short dance film inspired by the Japanese ceramic practice of kintsugi. This ancient art carries a powerful philosophy: it involves repairing broken objects with gold, thereby adding value to the object and highlighting the cracks. "KINTSUGI" is a reflection on human relationships and how they can impact us, sometimes leaving behind emotional fractures. With this project, I aim to create a safe space to explore vulnerability, and bring motion back to the parts of ourselves that have become frozen. The narrative also seeks to restore meaning and strength to closure. Walking away from certain situations can, in itself, be a form of repairing ourselves.
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DMYTRO GRYNOV
"I go Iŋdeepeandence"
"I go Iŋdeepeandence" is a short dance film that raises the question of independence on a personal and global level and its impact on people’s lives. The inspiration for the film comes from relevant political events in the cultural and social life of Poland and Ukraine. The story explores the phenomena of independence in these countries and how it is characterized. The focus lies also on the impact that independence as an instrument and feeling has on local communities. How much are people willing to pay for the independence of their country, for independence in decision-making and personal freedom? In addition to its strong political and social context, the film expresses the issue of finding harmony within borders and trust in personal and other people’s decisions.
Choreography, Dramaturgy & Performance: Dmytro Grynov, Daniela Komedera
Music: Joanna Duda
Camera: Michal Dolny
Edit: Larissa Potapov
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KAI HARVEY & MARTINA TARTARINI
"An Audience of One"
What makes it possible to open into creative flow? Helping people repeatedly find their flow, slipping, rebalancing, and returning to it. Loosening the grip on everyday pressures, making space for creative play. Opening again and again to the impermanence of a moment, precious, vulnerable. Sharing these experiences with others holds real weight. Gone are the shackles that bind us to fear. Set fire to what usually secures us, sedated, seated, performing life’s mundane tasks. No two moments are ever the same; cherish this. It’s where creativity and happiness dwell together. The chair is an everyday object, we pay it little attention. Its primary use is simply to sit. But call it a “platform,” and it becomes something more: a symbol of our efforts to explore and connect, again and again. A seat at the table where your voice can be heard. No longer unseen or nameless, you are part of a community, finding the bounce within the crowd. A sense of belonging, where you can flourish and expand your bravery to let go. To play. Create. Grow. Experiment. A fearless playground, this is the gift. A place where we can ignite our efforts again and again, their echoes gently refueling and nurturing the possibility of being open, bold, and alive in our creative selves.
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MONSTERA COLLECTIVE
"Separazione Naturale"
A couch. Three women. Three different worlds. Three unique stories.
Bodies and minds transform when they come in contact with the couch, blurring the line between dream and reality. "Separazione Naturale" explores human fragility, resilience, and transformation, delving into psychological disorders through an evocative short dance film.
Biography: The Monstera Collective was born from the collaboration of three young women driven by the need to create a safe space for their artistic expression. Founded in 2022 by dancers Veronica Lillo, Veronica Parlagreco, and Silvia Remigio, the collective explores contemporary dance through a multidisciplinary lens. Their works include the dance movie "Separazione Naturale", showcased at international festivals such as the Philippine International Fifth Wall Fest, Quinzena de Dança de Almada, and Hangart Fest, as well as the site-specific performance "Attract" for the ICG Gallery in Berlin.
Duration: 4 minutes 51 seconds
Credits:
Concept, Choreography, Performance – Veronica Lillo, Veronica Parlagreco, Silvia Remigio
Videomaker – Riccardo Bernardi
Music – Tim Leimbach
Costume Design – Barbara Oliveira
Location – Wohnzimmer Bar, Berlin
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NEFELI BERI
"i breathe"
Chasing a shiny crown held by a mysterious figure, she drifts into a void where she confronts shadows of her past. As dream and reality blur, she must surrender to transformation or risk being lost within it. “i breathe” is an immersive exploration of identity, rebirth, and the void within.
“i breathe” is a video dance - short film based on the music from NEFLELI’s debut album “I Breathe” and it was written and directed by Nefeli Beri and Alexis Orfanidis. What began as a personal story about trauma slowly turned into something much bigger, a process of sharing, understanding, and creating together.
The film was built from scratch over the span of six months. It was shot in seven intense days by a team of people who believed in the same vision and showed up with care, focus, and trust. It brought together 45 volunteers, 75 crowdfunding backers, and 11 people who gave their presence on screen and carried the story in their own way. What you see is the result of a collective effort. This film was lived and made in conversation, in exhaustion, in hope. It is a collective attempt to speak about things we carry and the ways we all fight to let them go.
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SABINA ANDREA ALLEN
"Dialogus inter Feminas et Natura"
Dialogus inter Feminas et Natura An eco-feminist piece about two women who begin forming a dialogue with mother nature so as to find their inner strength and femininity. Mimicking several of her different qualities and elements they come closer to reaching womanhood.
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SVEVA MARIA
"Ginestra"
Ginestra maps a corporeal cartography of Naples—a city of paradoxes, suspended between fire and sea, where life and death dance in constant dialogue. In collaboration with the La Paranza Cooperative in the Rione Sanità, we explored the deep-rooted relationship between Neapolitan culture and death through site-specific performances in catacombs, churches, and hidden courtyards. Moving through sacred and profane spaces, the project reveals the porous boundary between body and place, between memory and presence. Here, death is not an end but a shadow that shapes life—ars moriendi as ars vivendi. Can you embrace your porosity?
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SYLYSAK TAIDO
"Rebirth"
Rebirth follows the transformative journey of Benjamin, known as Bboy Banc, a French breakdancer facing a deep personal and artistic crisis. Years of daily physical strain have left his body marked by injury, while the ever-growing pressure of social media and the loss of authenticity in the dance scene have drained his creative spirit. Disillusioned and burned out, he decides to embark on a journey to Tokyo and Seoul — two cultural hubs where dance remains raw, expressive, and deeply rooted in human connection. What begins as an escape becomes a powerful process of healing and rediscovery. Through battles, workshops, and intimate encounters with local dancers, Benjamin is confronted not only with new forms of movement but also with his own vulnerability. His injuries — once seen as limitations — become part of his story, shaping a new artistic identity that embraces imperfection and emotion. Rebirth is a poetic exploration of resilience, a dancer’s quest to reignite the fire that once drove him. It is a meditation on what it means to truly move — not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. More than a documentary, it is a portrait of renewal, told through the universal language of dance.
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VANGELIS PAPAEVANGELIOU
"THE SERPENT'S EGGS"
THE SERPENT’ EGG A woman dressed in white is led, by voices she hears, to a tower, where an entity directs her to where she wants, so that she can take her form and to be resurrected.
Credits:
Vangelis Papaevangeliou Director
Sabina Andrea AllenDancer Choreographer
Manos Apostolopoulos Music
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Moving Bodies 2025 wird präsentiert von: radio3 (rbb)
