Company Christoph Winkler: It's All Forgotten Now AD – TANZTAGE BERLIN 2025
Company Christoph Winkler:
It's All Forgotten Now AD
It's All Forgotten Now AD
Dance meets music, film, video and spoken word: The Christoph Winkler Company is now showing its performative homage to Mark Fisher as a video on demand film version in English with German audio description.
With his legendary blog K-Punk, the British cultural scientist and pop theorist Mark Fisher shaped an entire generation of pop-affine capitalism critics. In his texts on little-known music, contemporary films and books, he claimed society a cultural exhaustion syndrome and criticized the widespread view that there was no longer any alternative to capitalist reality: You can imagine the end of the world, but not the end of capitalism?
Barely three years after Mark Fisher's suicide in 2017, the Christoph Winkler Company is now approaching some concepts of his theory, which express themselves not only politically but also aesthetically: For example "Hauntology", i.e. ideas and theories that haunt the present like ghosts from the past, or "the Weird & the Eerie", the strange, not to be confused with the terrible. With a performative mixtape of music, film, dance and spoken-word texts by Mark Fisher himself, among others, the company creates an homage to one of the greatest pop-cultural contemporary diagnosticians of our time.
The audio description will be in German and will be made by Xenia Taniko. For further information please contact Gina Jeske at jeske@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35.
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY Christoph Winkler DANCE Lois Alexander, Lisa Rykena, Michael Gagawala Kaddu, Raha Nejad, Kevin Lau Video contributions Aloalii Tapu, Joshua Faleatua, Robert Ssempijja - Dance Revolution East Africa, Bria Johnson, Symara Sarai Johnson Videodesign Matthias Härtig, Gabriella Fiore COSTUME ASSISTANT Marie Akoury PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Laura Biagioni TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Fabian Eichner FILM Tanzforum Berlin AUDIODESCRIPTION Xenia Taniko
A production by Company Christoph Winkler in coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and in cooperation with Schalldruck Veranstaltungstechnik. The audiodescription is carried out in cooperation with Förderband e.V. / Berliner Spielplan Audiodeskription and mapping dance berlin, part of the project Attention Dance II. The project is funded by the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) and the State of Berlin from 2018-2021. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
Christoph Winkler is one of Germany's most distinguished and versatile choreographers. His work covers a broad spectrum of formats and ranges from very personal to political themes. Under the umbrella of the “Company Christoph Winkler”, he brings together dancers from all over the world to work together as temporary collectives on a wide range of topics. Since 1996, Winkler has created more than 90 dance pieces as a freelance artist. In 2014, he won the German Theater Prize DER FAUST of the German Stage Association in the category “Best Choreography” with Das Wahre Gesicht. In 2016, DER FAUST was once again awarded to one of his productions, when Aloalii Tapu was named “Best Dancer” for the solo Urban Soul Café. Winkler was also the initiator and curator of The Witch Dance Project and the FanFic Festival. In recent years, he has performed several musically inspired productions such as Ernest Berk - The Complete Expressionist, Julius Eastman - Speak Boldly or We Are Going To Mars with great success. In 2020, Christoph Winkler was awarded a George Tabori award and in May 2022 he received the German Dance Award.