Dear Festival-guests, Times are bad for culture in Berlin. There is an absence of new cultural-political visions; the creation of adequate, more contemporary structures for these changing times is long overdue. Instead, rash budget cuts are endangering the work of important venues and institutions known far beyond Berlin, thus hampering creative development and destroying creative capital. In times like these, Berlin‘s International Dance Festival is a beacon proving the appeal of dance and performance with a display of bold imagination and artistic magnetism in a wide range of work. We look forward to welcoming you and hope you will enjoy exciting summer evenings at the Tanzfest. Nele Hertling, Marion Ziemann - Hebbel-Theater Ulrike Becker, André Thériault - TanzWerkstatt Berlin complete program: www.tanzfest.de Tel.: + 49/ 30/ 247 49 756 Fax: + 49/ 30/ 247 49 757 Email: twb@bkv.org The "Internationales Tanzfest Berlin - Tanz im August 2002" is jointly organized by TanzWerkstatt Berlin and Hebbel-Theater in cooperation with their partners Berliner Festspiele, Podewil, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, sophiensæle, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Theater am Halleschen Ufer. Additional support was provided by the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur (Department for Science, Research, and Culture of the State of Berlin). Funding was provided by Hauptstadtkulturfonds der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Fund for Culture in the Capital of the Federal Republic of Germany). _Program TanzWerkstatt Berlin Davis Freeman / Lilia Mestre Brüssel Double Bill: (Jonathan Burrows / Jan Ritsema London / Amsterdam Mihai Mihalcea Bukarest) Constanza Macras Berlin Davis Freeman Brüssel Thomas Lehmen Berlin Les Ballets du Grand Maghreb Brüssel Young and Restless (Dalija Acin Belgrad, Daria Buzovinka Moskau, Krõõt Juurak & Merle Saarua Tallinn, Renate Keerd Tallinn, Hooman Sharifi Oslo) Meg Stuart & Damaged Goods Brüssel / Zürich Interventions Workshops _Program Hebbel-Theater Boris Charmatz Paris Fortier Danse-Création Montréal Merce Cunningham Dance Company New York Compania Lesgart / Sanguinetti Buenos Aires Saburo Teshigawara / Karas Tokyo Sol.East (Eduardo Gabia Bukarest, Raido Mägi Tallinn, Manuel Pelmus Bukarest, Magdalena Reiter / Katarzyna Chmielewska Gdansk, Nikolai Schetnev Archangelsk) Robyn Orlin Johannesburg Meg Stuart & Damaged Goods Brüssel / Zürich The Batsheva Dance Company´s performances are presented by the Berliner Festspiele. www.hebbel-theater.de Spielorte: Hebbel-Theater, Podewil, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Sophiensæle, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Theater am Halleschen Ufer complete program: www.tanzfest.de