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Oh yes, people, that’s right — the Ponderosa Tanzland Festival (//The End of Choreography as we Know It//) is hoving into view, from August 13. to 26.! Like a new constellation in the sky, arcing through the heavens, throwing off twinkles of performative possibility, bending light in strange new ways, altering consciousnesses throughout the universe — and hurtling our way, like the rosy-fingered Stolzenhagen dawn on a summer morning.
Come out for a week! Or two! Or just a weekend! The festival time in August will shimmer in the heat, and and it will be bunched together a little bit like this:
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  • 13.–19. Aug · Movements · Sessions · Rituals week!
    With Benoît Lachambre, Maria. F. Scaroni, Peter Pleyer, Stephanie Maher, Keith Hennessy, Tove Sahlin, Maria Johansson Josephsson, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Robert Steijn and Ricardo Rubio, and more!
  • 18.–19. Aug · Talks · Parties · Ideas weekend!
    For those who want a taste. With Agnė Auželytė, Frederic Gies, Camilla Baratt Due, Marc Lohr, the Berlin Lecken crew, Lou Drago and Pedro Marum of XenoEntities Network, and more!
  • 20.–25. Aug · Workshop week!
    With Benoît Lachambre, Frederic Gies, Geyger Girls (Wanda Wrasti and Heather Purcell), Alan Prohm, Yoshiko Chuma, and more!

And, running alongside the festival, all through August, will be the deep immersion of the P.O.R.C.H. Performance and Choreographic Synthesis Module. All the details are below.
Ponderosa Tanzland Festival 2018 · All the details
The Ponderosa Tanzland Festival 2018 (//The End of Choreography as we Know It//) is the site of numerous overlapping threads of activity, and we hope to tease out all the details for you here.

​Some of the events are part of our regular run of workshops, and some are exclusive one-off events, performances, and spontaneous activations that will be happening only for the festival.
13.–19. Aug · Movements · Sessions · Rituals week!
  • Beginning with arrivals on Sunday evening (12. August) — sunscreen, hellos and welcomes, food sculptures, and festival indoctrination — with Agnė Auželytė and Anne Duk Hee Jordan.
  • Throughout the week there will be a collective sensorial memory ritual with Benoît Lachambre — we sleep and dream together, and live music soaks our pillows.
  • There will be radical dance stances from Maria. F. Scaroni, Peter Pleyer, and Stephanie Maher — embracing the unknown, and involving the participants of the P.O.R.C.H. Performance and Choreographic module.

There are two Ponderosa workshops that will also be running throughout this week:
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  • Dynamics of Fluids and Sensorial Memories, with ​Benoît Lachambre​ (13.–18. August, 20.–25. August)
  • The Intimacy of Being Human, with Robert Steijn and Ricardo Rubio. (13.–17. August)
​18.–19. Aug · Talks · Parties · Ideas weekend!
  • ​Keith Hennessy, Tove Sahlin, and Maria Johansson Josephsson — will be enfolding you within their film experiments, anarchistic acts, oil bath, and more — and all singing in ancestral duets as an emergent choir of aleatoric possibility.
  • Lou Drago and Pedro Marum of XenoEntities Network will present an investigation of earthly survival.
  • Frederic Gies will collaborate on dystopian/utopian entropic sounds with Camilla Baratt Due, Marc Lohr and accompanying visitors from Berlin’s legendary queer party night Lecken.
  • Robert Steijn will be presenting intimate hand shakes — or, making radical love to trees. 
​20.–25. Aug · Workshop week!
This week will be centered around the two workshops that will be running, which are:

  • Technosomatics with ​Frederic Gies
  • Dynamics of Fluids and Sensorial Memories, with ​Benoît Lachambre

At the same time, the week will see the contributions of: 

  • Geyger Girls (Wanda Wrasti and Heather Purcell)
  • Alan Prohm presenting a forest-based work
  • Yoshiko Chuma

And there will be more details announced soon!
And, if you want more — much more! — than just the festival, then remember that the P.O.R.C.H. Performance and Choreographic Synthesis module will be running alongside the festival. For all those who want a comprehensive reimagining of their creative potential, P.O.R.C.H. is where it begins. Places are still available for the module, so take a look while spots remain.
We’re constantly adding new details about the festival, so check back regularly. And keep an eye out for announcements of more details — on Faceborg, Instogrum, Twottur, and in the newsletter — and we’ll see you here for the pinnacle of the year!