Night of Short Pieces

Tanz-Performances

DIE VERANSTALTUNG FINDET INDOOR IN DER WASCHHAUS-ARENA STATT!

(english version below)

Ein Abend, viele Stimmen: Tänzer:innen und Choreograf:innen aus aller Welt präsentieren aktuelle Kurzstücke – mal experimentell, mal narrativ, mal atmosphärisch. Jede Performance öffnet eine eigene Welt und lädt ein zum Perspektivwechsel.

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, ENTFÄLLT!
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)

Night of Short Pieces
Dance Performances

One evening, many voices: Dancers and choreographers from all over the world present contemporary short pieces – sometimes experimental, sometimes narrative, sometimes atmospheric. Each performance opens up a new world and invites a shift in perspective.


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, CANCELLED!
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:

ABRIL NADAL 
"Lágrima"

Tears are shed for many things, and for the same things in many different ways. We impulsively cast off what we inevitably return to, only to discover that some burdens must be cradled against the body until we can rest with them. We dance with the fractured darkness of the shadow that completes us. We allow ourselves to be vulnerable before the fragility of discarded armor, and we stroke the edge with tenderness. We recognize ourselves in the weight of old sorrows, and we embrace it—because it is defenseless and sad. We cradle the wound, dance with it, and beside it, shed more beautiful tears.

"Lágrima" is a solo piece created and performed by Abril Nadal. It invites us to unravel, embrace, and dance with what we carry within—told through a journey shaped by the languages of waacking, breaking, contemporary dance, and acrobatics.
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AYBIKE IPEKCI 
"Mashallah"

This solo dance performance stems from a deep exploration of the evil eye (nazar) and its perceived impact on emotional and physical well-being. Across many cultures, the evil eye is seen as a harmful force driven by envy or negative energy, transmitted through a gaze. This invisible power is believed to cause bad luck, illness, or misfortune. When faced with unexplained difficulties or a series of unfortunate events, many turn to this belief for meaning and protection.

The performance delves into the moment one internalizes this unseen influence, leading to confusion, vulnerability, and isolation. It captures the emotional and psychological weight of believing one is affected by an invisible force. Movement becomes the medium through which these experiences are expressed—the body closes off, resists, collapses, and reshapes as it contends with the presence of negative energy. The choreography reflects fluctuating inner states and the turmoil that arises from bearing an invisible burden.

The title Mashallah references a widely used expression meant to ward off the evil eye. Commonly uttered upon witnessing beauty, success, or good fortune, it is believed to offer protection by invoking divine will. Even when unspoken, Mashallah carries a silent, protective force—an invisible shield rooted in culture and belief.

Ultimately, this solo offers a physical and emotional meditation on confronting the unseen yet deeply felt impact of the evil eye. It is a personal reflection that also speaks to collective cultural experiences, told through the language of the body. The performance stands as an embodied response to an ancient belief, where movement becomes a form of resilience, awareness, and protection.

Concept & Choreography: Aybike Ipekci
Outside Eye: Onur Özyurt
Music: Barlas Tan Özemek
Video: Ilkin Eskipehlivan

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LAURA BESCHI & ALESSIO SCANDALE
"Room with view"

Two figures, a sofa, one television. Around them, the world: news, shows, wars, games, tragedies and laughter blend together on a backlit screen. Room with view is a contemporary dance duet that reflects on the role of television as a window to the world and a symbol of domestic intimacy. Set between the late 1990s and early 2000s, a time when watching Tv was still shared, collective, ritual, the work draws a parallel with our present moment. Today, the screen is multiplied, accelerated, omnipresent: we see everything, but we feel very little. Inspired by the slapstick aesthetic of ’90s TV variety shows and the syncopated rhythm of contemporary information, the choreography shifts between physical intensity, subtle humour and emotional weight, between closeness and disconnection. Through everyday gestures that glitch, break and reinvent themselves, the bodies search for contact, play and care. Room with view is not just a critique of media overexposure, but a broader investigation into the fragile balance between empathy and emotional survival. To feel everything is unbearable. To feel nothing is inhuman. The question is: how do we remain human without being overwhelmed? With implicit references to thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and Jean Baudrillard, the piece unfolds as a physical and visual score moving through compassion, defence, engagement and numbness. Who’s watching whom? And what remains after we’ve seen everything?

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LUCIO SETA
"Unlocked"

"Unlocked" is a solo dance piece, based on a 30 year body record of strong emotional experiences that shaped the body to express itself in this way. The dance piece tells of an inner journey where the memory navigates to past states of rage and despair. The performer aims to shed light on the triumphs and successes that emerge from the human capacity to heal and overcome adversity and other than to be overshadowed by the weight of trauma. The spectator will come across a somatic body and a minimum frequency of almost static movement that develops towards a more desperate, uncontrollable body. Through this exploration, the body seeks to understand how past experiences manifest in the present and how they may affect the future. 

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PEZ & LIAM 
"No News"

“No News” is an emerging dance juggling duet about the state of journalism in the modern world. It uses a television news format as the basis for an abstract, poetic and absurd piece. We - a waving dancer and a ball juggler - are exploring the connections of our disciplines and how these can relate to themes including trust, neutrality, and authority. As a work-in-progress that began in March 2025, much remains unknown about the final form of the piece, but it is already clear that it will have an optimistic tone, a strong graphic nature, and will raise more questions than it answers.

Our work aims to twist the well-known format of television news into a strange new space, inviting reflection, criticism, and an element of ridicule. We present a serious, neutral front, but we do not hide the fact that this is superficial - it may crack and even crumble sometimes. Through this, we question the authority news holds, where it comes from and where it ends. No topic is forbidden in our metaphorical reporting, nor is any issue forced into the foreground.

Concretely, we will use tools from juggling, dance and object theatre to create and explore an alternative perspective on broadcast news. A neutral table (our news-desk) and a minimal figure (our colleague) will serve as fixed points to orientate our research around. We bring a deep knowledge of our individual disciplines, and a keen interest in the creative connection between them. Our approach to creation is playful, and centres around generating new vocabulary and phrases then selecting and refining these in relation to our theme. Our immediate goal is to create a piece of twenty minutes, with a view to expanding the work in the future.

Television news has great power in shaping our collective narratives, and yet the forces that shape news itself are dominantly commercial and arguably corrupt. The fact that negative stories which incite fear or hatred create stronger engagement has driven escalation, whereby broadcasters tend to extreme subjects in order to hold on to a bigger viewer share. This has reached a point where most adults report anxiety in connection with consuming news (reference below), and many feel the need to tune out completely in order to protect their mental health. Clearly this is not a healthy state for mainstream journalism, so we find the topic an important one to deal with in our artistic process.

“No News” aims to create a space to reflect on our relationship to journalism and the values we wish reporting to embody. We want to bring awareness to the problem of news overload and encourage people to think about moderate, practical solutions. We want to bring some lightness to a heavy subject. We hope to gain and share a better understanding of neutrality. Above all, we want people to question the answers they are given, and remember that they are not absolute.

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SABINA ANDREA ALLEN & XENIA ARGYRI 
"ABYSS"

ABYSS is a short dance solo performance exploring fear through the feminine body. Its title comes from the Greek ἄβυσσος (ábyssos)—“a-” (without) and “bythos” (depth)—meaning “bottomless.” With echoes of Nietzsche’s warning—“If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”, Helen Cixous’ The Laugh of the Medusa and Goethe’s Faust, the work examines fear as both vulnerability and power. Through stillness, trembling gestures, and sculptural-inspired movement, the dancer shifts between creature and conduit, evoking Medusa’s petrifying gaze and the jellyfi sh’s delicate sting—symbols of femininity’s paradox: soft yet armed, alluring yet feared. An aquarium mirrors the watery stage, refl ecting our desire to contain what we cannot understand. Set to water sounds, techno pulses and opera fragments, ABYSS immerses audiences in a descent—mythic and psychological—where fear and beauty intertwine.

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SILVIA REMIGIO
"20 Seconds"

"20 Seconds" is a multidisciplinary dance performance inspired by a controversial court ruling that questions the legal definition of sexual violence. Through layered live sound created with a loop station, movement, and text, the piece explores trauma and injustice, confronting gender-based violence and the feelings that arise from the revictimization of survivors, asking the audience to bear witness and refuse complicity in the silence.

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Moving Bodies 2025 wird präsentiert von: radio3 (rbb)