Jazzfest Berlin

If improvisation in jazz epitomises intuitive playing, to what extent do musicians have to unlearn what they learnt at university in order to find their own artistic identity? Under the title &ldquo;(Un-)Learning Jazz&rdquo;, Jazzfest Berlin 2023&rsquo;s new online magazine &ldquo;Story&ldquo; looks at working methods and creative processes that seek to find a balance&nbsp;&nbsp; between planning and spontaneity, knowledge and intuition and between individual and collective creation.

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Jazzfest Berlin 2023: Impressionen

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Save the Date! Jazzfest Berlin 2024 will take place from 30&nbsp;October to 3&nbsp;November 2024.

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Berlin is known for its numerous &ldquo;Spielpl&auml;tze&rdquo; for kids, but the project &ldquo;Radical Playgrounds&rdquo; is a place where play gets serious. It arrives at Gropius Hain for eleven weeks like an itinerant, temporary funfair: both melancholic and light-hearted, sad and joyful, funny and serious.

Radical Playgrounds: From Competition to Collaboration

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Musikfest Berlin sees itself as a forum for the innovative creative work carried out by large-scale orchestras and ensembles in the genre of classical and modern music and ushers in the Berlin concert season spectacularly. The full programme is published and on sale.

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Over the course of five decades, Nancy Holt explored how we perceive our environment and how we attempt to understand our place on the surface of this planet. From March 2024, the Gropius Bau presents &ldquo;Circles of Light&rdquo;, the artist&rsquo;s most comprehensive survey exhibition in Germany to date. It includes film, video, photography, sound works, concrete poetry, sculptures and expansive installations as well as drawings and documentation from over 25&nbsp;years.

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With &ldquo;How Love Moves&rdquo;, the Gropius Bau presents the first major institutional solo exhibition of Pallavi Paul. As an artist and film scholar, Paul engages the camera as her primary tool to interrogate how regimes of &ldquo;truth&rdquo; are produced and sustained in public life. Through her multimedia practice spanning film, installation, performance, drawing, photography and writing, she negotiates the documentary not only conjured as film or image &ndash; but as an ecology of materials, networks, global alliances and systems.

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Even before the concert programme begins coming generations are at the heart of events in Jazzfest Berlin 2023: during the autumn holidays the Jazzfest ImproCamp&nbsp;will give 30 children, invited through various different social institutions, a chance to explore a holistic, transdisciplinary approach to the art of improvisation. The children will be able to take a look behind the scenes and meet festival musicians in a series of conversations and workshops. The concert programme will also open with a further 30 children aged between nine and twelve from two Berlin children&rsquo;s choirs, appearing on stage at the festival theatre after several days of rehearsal with Antonin-Tri Hoang and Romain Clerc-Renaud in their commissioned production &ldquo;Apparitions&rdquo;. Lastly, additional workshops and a seminar on Artistic Leadership will expand the scope of Jazzfest Berlin 2023&rsquo;s activities with exciting encounters between festival musicians and students from the Jazz Institute Berlin and the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin.

This year&rsquo;s concert programme also features a number of exceptional established artists from a variety of different traditions who have spent the last six decades consistently redefining the rules of their music and their respective instruments. Prominent amongst these influential artists is the composer, saxophonist and flutist Henry Threadgill (US), with a composition commissioned for a musical collaboration between his ensemble Zooid with the Berlin-based musicians of Silke Eberhard&rsquo;s Potsa Lotsa XL. Here this year&rsquo;s festival maintains the long series of artistic encounters with leading figures from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago that has been a regular feature of Jazzfest editions over the last six years. And the pioneer of free improvisation Fred Frith (GB), who originally started out in experimental rock, will share a stage for the first time with the trumpeter Susana Santos Silva (PT) and percussionist Mari&aacute; Portugal (BR) in an intergenerational trio. Alexander von Schlippenbach (DE) and Aki Takase (JP) will draw on the creative storehouse of 40 years of marriage and a total of over 100 years&rsquo; lived experience of (free) jazz history. And Andrew Cyrille (US), who made his first appearance at the Berliner Jazztagen over 50 years ago with the legendary pianist Cecil Taylor and now presents the European premiere of his duo with Bill McHenry (US), will share the closing night with two other icons: Conny Bauer (DE), one of the GDR&rsquo;s original free jazzers, who will revive some long-standing connections between the US and (East) Berlin avantgarde scenes in a trio with Hamid Drake (US) and William Parker (US), and Joyce Moreno (BR), one of the forerunners of the progressive tradition in creative Brazilian popular music, who will present a live performance of previously unpublished songs from the 1970s that she has recently released as an album &ldquo;Natureza&rdquo;. &nbsp; &nbsp;

While at the beginning of her career, as a 19-year-old who dared to sing about being a woman in the first person, Moreno fell victim to censorship by the military dictatorship in her native Brazil, 45 years later her voice now epitomises the great diversity of original, independent female voices within the global musical landscape. The fact that this is too often ignored in the writing of music history is emphatically demonstrated at Jazzfest Berlin in a work by Nancy Mounir (EG): the multi-instrumentalist from Cairo has spent five years in archives researching the female singers who led independent lives in the liberal Egypt of the 1920s. 

There is also a clear female influence in the broad spectrum of strong musical voices from the younger generation in this year&rsquo;s programme, including trumpeter and avantgarde jazz musician Steph Richards (CA), the collective Irreversible Entanglements that includes the spoken word artist Camae Ayewa (US), aka Moor Mother, gitarrist Mary Halvorson (US) with pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier (CH), as well as the Natural Information Society (US) initiated by Joshau Abrams in the special Chicago feature &ldquo;Sonic Dreams: Chicago&rdquo; with, among others, Mike Reed (US)&rsquo;s The Separatist&nbsp;Party and Bitchin Bajas. Also represented in the programme are not only two of the most interesting up-and-coming free jazz saxophonists, Zoh Amba (US), raised in rural Tennessee, and Camila Nebbia (AR), now resident in Berlin but originally from Buenos Aires, as well as three of Europe&rsquo;s most exciting freely improvising pianists, each with their own projects: Marta Warelis (PL), Marlies Debacker (BE) and Kaja Draksler (SI) with the German premiere of her new project &ldquo;matter 100&rdquo;. The composer Ellen Arkbro (SE) and the pianist Johan Graden reveal a deeply melancholy side of themselves in their latest album and the composer, singer and double bassist Fuensanta (MX), who lives in the Netherlands, brings contemporary broken echoes of the traditional sounds of her Mexican homeland to Berlin together with her Ensamble Grande. The creative energy of a new generation of Norwegian musicians is represented in this year&rsquo;s programme by the clarinettist Andreas R&oslash;ysum (NO) and the saxophonist Marthe Lea (NO). And the French pianist Eve Risser (FR) and her Red Desert Orchestra, musically located in the transcultural space between Europe and Africa, present the impressive results of an intensive exploration of music from West Africa.

This year&rsquo;s concert programme once again extends beyond the Haus der Berliner Festspiele to include the nearby A-Trane and Quasimodo as well as the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, which will open its doors for &ldquo;Ghosted&rdquo;, a project by an Australian-Swedish trio led by Oren Ambarchi (AU). Thanks to our partnership with the ARD radio broadcast network and Deutschlandradio, you can also listen to the concerts on the radio throughout Germany &ndash; either live or with a time delay. Further insights into and information about the artists, as well as features on the theme of &ldquo;(Un-)Learning Jazz&rdquo;, can be found in our online story format for this year (published on 4 October).

International greats meet the avantgarde of the Berlin jazz scene in seven exclusive artistic encounters, ten projects from around the world feature the human voice in all its many guises and this year there are once again numerous world and German premieres along with exciting artists&rsquo; talks and film presentations. We look forward to you joining us!

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The 60th edition of Jazzfest Berlin provides a space for music that is playful and intuitive and brings together different generations in 36 projects.&nbsp;The past,&nbsp;the present and the future are connected on many levels in the festival programme &ndash; both&nbsp;in the lived experience of&nbsp;musicians who have spent decades consistently redefining the rules&nbsp;of music and in the creative potential of&nbsp;a group of people who are seen as experts when it comes to playing and intuition: children. 
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Presenting both style-defining icons of jazz and young positions from a wide variety of styles, Jazzfest Berlin presents a festival programme full of creative border-crossings and collective visions.

About Jazzfest Berlin

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For the first time in its long history, 60&nbsp;children took centre stage in two projects at the 60th&nbsp;Jazzfest Berlin in 2023. The ImproCamp was newly launched, inviting 30&nbsp;children via various social organisations and giving them a holistic, transdisciplinary approach to the art of improvisation.

Documentary: Children&rsquo;s Projects of the 2023 Jazzfest Berlin

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In our multimedia stories, we highlight selected topics of the festival, explore background information and start conversations.

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You can listen to some of our events this year digitally in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library after the live concerts.&nbsp;In addition, On Demand offers from past years are available.

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For the 60th anniversary edition of Jazzfest Berlin, the team is looking for a reliable person for the dramaturgical tasks from 1&nbsp;March until 30&nbsp;November 2024. 
Deadline for applications: 4 February 2024

Wanted: Dramaturg Jazzfest Berlin (f/m/d)

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The Berliner Festspiele organise a range of festivals and art exhibitions, concerts, dance and theatre performances, readings, lectures, debates and much more throughout the year. These events are presented at a range of locations across Berlin but are concentrated primarily at their own two venues: the Gropius Bau and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

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On four themed days, curated by Saba-Nur Cheema and Meron Mendel, the Berliner Festspiele wishes to create a space for nuanced reflection without adopting reflex positions on one of what is assumed to be only two possible sides.

Reflexes &amp; Reflections

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Considered one of the key works of modernism, it is a hundred years after the genesis of Igor Stravinsky&rsquo;s &ldquo;Le Sacre du Printemps&rdquo; that Sasha Waltz takes on the Mariinsky Theatre&rsquo;s offer to engage with this extraordinary piece of musical and dance history. Its title translates to &ldquo;The Rite of Spring&rdquo;.&nbsp;For this evening, it is accompanied by the &ldquo;Sc&egrave;ne d&rsquo;Amour&rdquo; from &ldquo;Rom&eacute;o et Juliette&rdquo; by Hector Berlioz and her choreography &ldquo;L&rsquo;Apr&egrave;s-midi d&rsquo;un faune&rdquo; to the music of Claude Debussy.

Sasha Waltz &amp; Guests: Sacre

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As part of the international festival Tanz im August, three productions will be shown at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in August 2024. Advance booking for two productions is now open.

Tanz im August

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In 2024, the Musikfest Berlin will once again open the concert season in late summer with top-class international orchestras, celebrated conductors and remarkable soloists. The full programme is online. Advance ticket sales has started.

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The second season, presented between October 2024 and January 2025, will concentrate on memory and heritage in contemporary performing arts, with a focus on New York&rsquo;s dance and performance scene.

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Concerts, Performances, Installations, Discourse Formats

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The 10 Remarkable Productions 2024

On 26 January, the Theatertreffen&rsquo;s jury of critics announced their selection of 10 remarkable productions for the 2024 Theatertreffen at a press conference. Our congratulations go to the nominated production teams and all participants! The programme will be published on 5 April.

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&ldquo;Radical Playgrounds&rdquo;, an art parcours at the Gropius Bau, is spending eleven weeks exploring the differences between the concepts of play as competition and free play. Visitors are invited to walk and climb on the various installations and sculptures, to activate them and to shape the project collectively.

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<h3>Sasha Waltz &amp; Guests: Sacre</h3>

<h4>27 to 30 June 2024</h4>

Considered one of the key works of modernism, it is a hundred years after the genesis of Igor Stravinsky&rsquo;s &ldquo;Le Sacre du Printemps&rdquo; that Sasha Waltz takes on the Mariinsky Theatre&rsquo;s offer to engage with this extraordinary piece of musical and dance history. Its title translates to &ldquo;The Rite of Spring&rdquo;.&nbsp;For this evening, it is accompanied by the &ldquo;Sc&egrave;ne d&rsquo;Amour&rdquo; from &ldquo;Rom&eacute;o et Juliette&rdquo; by Hector Berlioz and her choreography &ldquo;L&rsquo;Apr&egrave;s-midi d&rsquo;un faune&rdquo; to the music of Claude Debussy.

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The massacre, hostage-taking and rocket attacks by Hamas have shaken us deeply. The grue-some attack on Israel on 7&nbsp;October left us stunned and initially lost for words.

The Berliner Festspiele on Current Events in Israel, Gaza and Germany

With this letter of intent, we, the signing cultural organizations, express our intention to welcome, host and stage Ukrainian theatre artists in our venues, to make Ukrainian dramatic work visible to the European community.

Support of the Ukrainian Cultural Scene

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<h4>13 to 16 June 2024</h4>

On four themed days, curated by Saba-Nur Cheema and Meron Mendel, the Berliner Festspiele wishes to create a space for nuanced reflection without adopting reflex positions on one of what is assumed to be only two possible sides.

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<h4>2 to 20 May 2024</h4>

The 10&nbsp;remarkable productions, selected by a jury of critics, were announced in a press conference on 26&nbsp;January 2024, 11:00. The programme will be published on 5&nbsp;April, advance ticket sales will start on 19&nbsp;April at 14:00

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<h4>By Ren&eacute; Pollesch</h4>

Ren&eacute; Pollesch provided unforgettable moments at the Theatertreffen in 2002 with the invitation to his &ldquo;Prater-Trilogie&rdquo; parts 1 to 3 and in 2012 with &quot;Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia for unforgettable moments at the Theatertreffen, for which we are deeply grateful. Ren&eacute; Pollesch died suddenly and unexpectedly on 26 February at the age of 61. The 3sat recording of &ldquo;Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia&rdquo; is available in our media library until 27&nbsp;May 2024.

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