Music | Dance | Performance
What happens when you challenge a group of young dancers to climb a building that’s been turned on its side—or turned upside down? Or when they play the theater’s stage machinery like an oversized musical instrument, or dance with a boom microphone to create the soundtrack for the dance itself? “Run Time Anomaly” begins with precisely these kinds of questions.
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"Run Time Anomaly" von Simon Steen-Andersen mit der Jugendtanzcompany Sasha Waltz & Guests
Together with the youth dance company of Sasha Waltz & Guests and choreographers Lázló Sandig and Wibke Storkan, composer, performer, and sound artist Simon Steen-Andersen took up residence in the Academy of Arts building on Hanseatenweg for three weeks in the fall of 2025.
They explored the building’s hidden sounds and history in search of direct connections between sound, the body, and architecture.
The result is a fantastic live documentary that portrays the dance company and the architecture through an interplay of perspectives.
The young dancers step onto a stage that extends into transformed spaces and embark on a journey between reality and fantasy—accompanied by a soundscape of amplified movements, subfrequencies that make bodies and the building vibrate, echoes from the archives of electronic music, cinematic dreamscapes, and transformations of the dancers’ own favorite dance tracks.
The world premiere was commissioned and produced by the Voices Berlin festival in 2025. Now the final version of the piece is being presented.
“The artistic highlight of the [Voices Berlin] festival was Run Time Anomaly … The production impressed with its creative concept and playful ingenuity: movement, electronic sounds, video, and architecture interwove to form a multifaceted exploration of altered spatial perception.”
POSITIONEN, February 2026
In collaboration with: Academy of Arts and Sasha Waltz & Guests
Supported by: Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart
On two summer evenings, the final version of the stage and video performance will be presented on the main stage on Hanseatenweg—a playful exploration of architecture through movement, electronic sounds, and video.
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Dates
July 2026
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