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Oh yes, people, that’s right — the Ponderosa Tanzland Festival 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, Robert Steijn and Ricardo Rubio, Lou Drago and Pedro Marum of XenoEntities Network, ​and more!
  • 18.–19. Aug · Talks · Parties · Ideas weekend!
    For those who want a taste. With Agnė Auželytė, Frederic Gies, Marc Lohr, the Berlin Lecken crew, and more!
  • 20.–25. Aug · Workshop week!
    With Benoît Lachambre, Frederic Gies, Geyger Girls (Wanda Vrasti and Heather Purcell), Alan Prohm, Yoshiko Chuma, and more!
  • Throughout · Special guests, last-minute extras, and improvised actions
    With Yoav Admoni, Stephanie Maher/Tipping Utopia, Yoshiko Chuma, Peter Pleyer, Maria F Scaroni, Agnė Auželytė, Marc Lohr, and many 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. Read on for more...
The Ponderosa TanzLand Festival 2018 is supported by the Brandenburg Regional Ministry for Science, Research, and Culture, by the district of Barnim, and by Ponderosa e.V.
Das Ponderosa TanzLand Festival 2018 wird gefördert durch das Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg, den Landkreis Barnim und den Ponderosa e.V.
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.
The whole Ponderosa Tanzland Festival 2018 comprises these three parts:​
  • 13.–19. Aug · Movements · Sessions · Rituals week
  • ​18.–19. Aug · Talks · Parties · Ideas weekend
  • ​20.–25. Aug · Workshop week​
Remember — the Movements · Sessions · Rituals week includes the Talks · Parties · Ideas weekend — so, if you come for the week, you get the weekend on top as a part of it! 
13.–19. Aug · Movements · Sessions · Rituals week
The week for explorations, silent night walks, ecstatic political conjurings, somatic practices, and so much more.
  • Beginning with arrivals on Sunday evening (12. August) — sunscreen, hellos and welcomes, food sculptures, and festival indoctrination — with Agnė Auželytė.
  • The week will then orbit around evening rituals, presented each day by a sparkling troupe of visiting diabolists, enchantresses, and seers, namely: Keith Hennessy, Robert Steijn, Ricardo Rubio, Benoît Lachambre, Peter Pleyer, Stephanie Maher, Marc Lohr, Maria F. Scaroni, and more — happening each day from 7pm until late. One of these events will be a collective sensorial memory ritual with Benoît Lachambre, where we sleep and dream together, and live music soaks our pillows.
  • ​There will be radical dance stances from the P.O.R.C.H. Performance and Choreographic Synthesis module group, along with the P.O.R.C.H. facilitators Maria. F. Scaroni, Peter Pleyer, and Stephanie Maher — embracing the unknown and inviting the inexpressible.
  • On Friday, August 17., at 20:30, leading us into the weekend, Lou Drago and Pedro Marum of XenoEntities Network will be presenting a film by Fabrizio Terranova — Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival — followed by a discussion and exchange.
  • ​Yoshiko Chuma’s Secret Mystery Midnight workshop, about which we must remain... silent. For now.
  • ​The unfolding embrace of the artful slow cooking actions of Agnė Auželytė.
There are two Ponderosa workshops that will also be running throughout this week:
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And — ☞ nota bene! — this week includes the Talks · Parties · Ideas weekend! So, if you are here for the week, you get to be a part of all of the weekend activities as well. Yeoww!
18.–19. Aug · Talks · Parties · Ideas weekend
A weekend of daytime discussions, evening experiments, twilight celebrations and moonbathed merrymaking in the August countryside
The Talks · Parties · Ideas weekend will involve Tove Sahlin and Maria Johansson Josephsson, Frederic Gies, Wanda Vrasti and Heather Purcell, Marc Lohr, Maria F. Scaroni, and many more. They will be enfolding you within their film experiments, anarchistic acts, bodyritualistic sexdisorientation and more — all while singing in ancestral duets as an emergent choir of aleatoric possibility.
  • In the afternoons: singing rituals and kitchen choir with Tove Sahlin and Maria Johansson Josephsson.
  • Frederic Gies will collaborate on dystopian/utopian entropic sounds with Marc Lohr and accompanying visitors from Berlin’s legendary party pansexualists Lecken.
  • Robert Steijn will be presenting intimate hand shakes — or, making radical love to trees. 
  • On Saturday, August 18., there will be a performance at 9pm by Tove Sahlin and Maria Johansson Josephsson.
  • ​On Saturday night, there will be an electronic live act by Paartanz (lecken.berlin) and DJ Marum (mina) sliding into a sunday after-party collective session of Technosomatics with Frederic Gies.
  • The continuing enigma of Yoshiko Chuma’s Secret Mystery Midnight workshop, which will, for now, about which we must remain... sphinxishly reticent.
  • ​The frenetic peak of the artful slow cooking actions of Agnė Auželytė.
20.–25. Aug · Workshop week
A week of workshop enmeshment, techno ceremonies, forest fascination, historical investigation, and more...
During the workshop week, two workshops will be occurring:
All of the other special events that will be happening during the week revolve around these. So, if you want to experience the entire adventure, sign up to one of the two workshops (so, on the form, either Technosomatics or else Dynamics of Fluids, week 2). Then simply allow the ingenuity of the rest of the week’s special events to be a river of imaginative possibility that flows around you as you open your arms to all the sensations of summer sensuality.
The festival special events during workshop week are:
  • On August 21., at 9pm, there will be a performance by Geyger Girls (Wanda Vrasti and Heather Purcell)
  • On August 24.–26., Alan Prohm will facilitate Everyone is part of the pattern, a durational social sculpture, collective forest construction, and inhabitation of a tubular loom. This will happen in the forest around Ponderosa — you are invited to a woodlands outing and overnight collaborative event. Bring your sleeping bag out into the landscape!
  • ​There will be showings and performances from Yoav Admoni, Stephanie Maher/Tipping Utopia, Yoshiko
    Chuma    , Peter Pleyer, Maria F. Scaroni and the P.O.R.C.H. Performance and Choreographic Synthesis module group.
  • A slow-dancing concert with Marc Lohr.
  • Yoshiko Chuma’s Secret Mystery Midnight workshop, about which we can only tell you... nothing. Yet.
  • ​The climactic crescendo of the artful slow cooking actions of Agnė Auželytė.
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 now, while spots remain...
Also, 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!