5th Annual Performance Festival PERFORM!
A garden thrives not on striking statements and symbols, but on attention and long-term care. ‘In my garden’, the new solo performance by Josh Johnson, plays with forms of dispersion, distribution and falling. As conventional dance forms dissolve, new creative impulses emerge within the flow of the movements.
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Josh Johnson: In meinem Garten, 2026
Johnson develops this work in the spirit of the American writer Toni Morrison, who discovered the laws of natural life cycles within historical developments. Even what disappears from the surface is therefore not entirely obliterated, but merely returns to the soil, from which new forms can soon emerge once more.
Josh Johnson is a dancer, performer and choreographer from Los Angeles. He was a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (from 2009) and the Forsythe Company (2010–2015), as well as a guest member at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in the collective Moved by the Motion (Wu Tsang, boychild, Asma Maroof, Fred Moten).
As a co-founder of the SAD Collective, he has staged performances, DJ sets, video works and installations in Europe, the USA and Asia. Johnson has collaborated with artists such as Anne Imhof, Kandis Williams, Wu Tsang and boychild.
Venue: Terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie
PERFORM! is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, together with Lisa Botti, curator at the Neue Nationalgalerie, and Gregor Quack, Volkswagen Group Curator.
The American Academy in Berlin is a partner of PERFORM! 2026.
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Dates
September 2026
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