The Berlin Dancewalk Essays


Dance&Walk&Think on Fluidity and Separation (2024)

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These opuses, live in the public space translated into videos, are something between trial performance and reflection.

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On one hand, the Berlin RiverRun, on the other hand, the Berlin WallsWaltz.

On one foot, a dance-traveling reflection on FLUIDITY OF MOVEMENT along the rivers, canals, waters of Berlin.

On the other foot, a dance-traveling reflection along the Berliner Mauerweg and this historical symbol of SEPARATION.

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Dates futures

08 Nov 2024
Berlin WallsWaltz – Part 2
Along the Berlin Mauerweg : Nordbahnhof > Postdamer Platz > Warshaeur Strasse > Schöneweeide
from mid-morning to late afternoon

On the two days of the 35th anniversary of the Wall’s Fall November 8th and 9th

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The Berlin Dancewalk Essays

Trial B – Berlin WallsWaltz

Dancewalking essays vis à vis the historical symbol of SEPARATION via the Berliner Mauerweg and other walls, barriers, limits, stops, privatization of the public space… And a questioning, as the 35th anniversary of the Wall’s Fall unfolds : are we really more free now in this world ? 

Part 2 : trial dancewalking between Nordbahnhof and Shöneweide in two days (8&9.11.24)

Join Foofwa on his Dancewalk by finding him on this LocaToWeb link (https://locatoweb.com/map/single/0712327248)


Dates passées

03 Nov 2024
Berlin WallsWaltz – Part 1
From Berlin-Wittenau to Nordbahnhof - About 10 km
From noon on

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The Berlin Dancewalk Essays

Trial B – Berlin WallsWaltz

Dancewalking essays vis à vis the historical symbol of SEPARATION via the Berliner Mauerweg and other walls, barriers, limits, stops, privatization of the public space… And a questioning, as the 35th anniversary of the Wall’s Fall unfolds : are we really more free now in this world ? 

Part 1 : Berlin-Wittenau to Wollankstrasse

Complication to find the Mauerweg as the maps of the Berlin site didn’t work. Videotaped trials on the corporality of separation. Beginning reflections on the notions of limits and barriers.


01 Nov 2024
Berlin RiverRun – Part 2 : Spree
Along the Spree from West to East
all afternoon long

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The Berlin Dancewalk Essays

Trial A – Berlin RiverRun

A dance-traveling essay on Flüssigkeit, Fluidité, Fluidity, Wasser-like quality of movement along the canals and rivers, big and small, of Berlin, in contrast with the other dance-traveling essay along the historical Wall of Separation.

Part 2 : Spree

La Spree est une rivière allemande et tchèque, affluent de la Havel, donc sous-affluent de l’Elbe. À Berlin, la Sprée coule dans le lit de la vallée proglaciaire de Berlin. Ainsi, peu après avoir franchi les limites de la capitale, elle traverse le grand lac de Müggelsee en passant par le petit lac de Müggelsee. Au niveau du quartier de Köpenick, elle reçoit les eaux de la rivière Dahme. La petite île du centre de Berlin est nommée la Spreeinsel. Vers Nordhafen, la Panke vient alimenter la Sprée. C’est finalement au niveau du quartier de Spandau qu’elle se jette dans la Havel par la rive gauche. (source wikipédia)



29 Oct 2024
Berlin RiverRun – Part 1 : Süd Panke
Wedding, Mitte
de 14h à 15h

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The Berlin Dancewalk Essays

Trial A – Berlin RiverRun

A dance-traveling essay on Flüssigkeit, Fluidité, Fluidity, Wasser-like quality of movement along the canals and rivers, big and small, of Berlin, in contrast with the other dance-traveling essay along the historical Wall of Separation.

Part 1 : Süd Panke 

This solitary Dancewalking, as slow-paced as the Panke, was interrupted by roads and crossing roads, big and small, most of the time without a crossing walkway ! The river is bound by walls with many graffitis, framing the slow and shallow fluidity with signs and statements which I photographed some. The path’s paving is multiple going from soil to ciment through paving stones, gravel and big stone slabs. Lots of trees: Birches, Pines, Maples, Ifs, Poplars, Ash trees, und so weiter are companions along the route.

« The Panke is not an impressive river. It runs for 29km from near Bernau in Brandenburg to where it splits close to the fortressed headquarters of the BND on the border between Mitte and Wedding, emptying into the Spree from an underground tunnel close to the Berliner Ensemble, and via a series of waste- and debris-collecting locks into the Spandau Ship Canal just behind Hamburger Bahnhof. »

Author Paul Scraton on the Panke, the narrow, shallow river that has become his constant companion.
The Berliner