touch_taff

How do teenagers and young adults manage to stay positive and be tough (taff in German) while remaining tender when the world stumbles from one crisis to the next? How can we cooperate instead of competing? How can we touch instead of isolating ourselves? What gives hope? What gives strength? And how can it all work together and not at the expense of others?

For the first time, Tanzbiennale 2025 is presenting an inclusive dance piece with around 15 teenagers and young adults with and without disabilities. »touch_taff« will be led by an experienced team of choreographers who will explore these big questions with the help of dance improvisation and contemporary dance technical mediation. The dance group will dream, rage, doubt, hope, create with their heads, hearts and bodies and put everything into dance, music and finally on stage.

Invitation to the Tanztreffen der Jugend
»touch_taff« is one of eight selected choreographies invited to the Tanztreffen der Jugend 2025 and will be shown in Berlin in autumn 2025. The Tanztreffen der Jugend is part of the Berliner Festspiele. Its invitations are one of the most important honours for young dance professionals in Germany. It presents exemplary and remarkable pieces that find their own themes on their own initiative or under professional guidance and bring them into an artistic form with contemporary and/or urban movement languages. The Tanztreffen der Jugend aims to be a showcase and source of inspiration for the work of young dancers and choreographers. This year's Tanztreffen will take place from 27 September to 3 October 2025.