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SASHA WALTZ & GUESTS – Contemporary Dance in Book form
Sasha Waltz is a choreographer who has had a significant impact on contemporary dance. Her work is known for its unique blend of dance, architecture, and visual arts. Now, for the first time, the work of Sasha Waltz & Guests is being published in book form.
Sasha Waltz & Guests – Over 30 Years of Influential Dance History
For over 30 years, the dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests has successfully toured internationally, presenting contemporary choreographies and choreographed operas worldwide. They also develop site-specific "Dialogues" projects and implement artistic-social initiatives. It's time for choreographer Sasha Waltz, along with the people who have been with her on her journey, to look back and forward. This book takes its time, offering readers new perspectives on her body of work. The 344-page book is bilingual (English/German) and will be available starting September 17.
65 Codes –An Encyclopedic Cabinet of Curiosities
As Sasha Waltz aptly describes it, "an ensemble is a living archive." But how does an ensemble remember? Beyond a simple chronology of events, the book highlights an aspect of memory that ensures the repeatability of dance: notation. Sasha Waltz's "scores" consist of fascinating terms, each designating a specific choreographic figure. The book takes 65 of these "codes" and presents them as an encyclopedic cabinet of curiosities, detached from their original context.
noBody - film stills/video installation for Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), 2023, Jörg Jeshel, Brigitte Kramer (nachtaktivfilm)
By linking them to art history and featuring guest contributions from various perspectives, the book creates a creative reordering of Sasha Waltz's work, making the scores dance once again in a new light.
To dance is to participate actively in the vibration of the universe
Sasha Waltz
Header Image: Sebastian Bollesch
Veröffentlicht am:
15.09.2025
Sasha Waltz & Guests
€ 58,00
For 30 years, the dance company and artistic collective Sasha Waltz & Guests has celebrated international success with its contemporary choreographies, social sculptures, Dialoge projects, operas and films. On the occasion of its anniversary, choreographer Sasha Waltz looks back together with people who have accompanied her along the way. As she herself aptly describes it, “an ensemble is a living archive.” But how does an ensemble collectively remember? Beyond the mere chronology of events, the book brings an aspect of remembrance to the fore that ensures the repeatability of dance: notations. Sasha Waltz’s “scores” consist of an eclectic collection of evocative terms, each of which designates individual choreographic figures. Like an encyclopaedic cabinet of curiosities, this publication takes up 50 of these “codes” and detaches them from their actual context. Through links to art history and complemented by texts and poems a creative rearrangement of Sasha Waltz’s oeuvre emerges that makes the choreographic figures themselves dance once again.In 1993, choreographer Sasha Waltz and cultural entrepreneur Jochen Sandig founded the dance company SASHA WALTZ & GUESTS as an ever evolving artistic community. To date, more than 300 artists and ensembles from the fields of architecture, visual arts, choreography, film, design, literature, fashion and music from 30 countries have collaborated as “guests” in over 80 productions in Berlin and beyond.
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