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2024
Berlin, Potsdam
Witnessing it all happening for the last time
Dance performance
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Cover image: Katya Smolina

Production
Choreography
Vera Shchelkina
Co-choreography and dance
Alex Pukhov, Bassili Fatloun
Original melody
Jerzy Peterburzski
Deconstruction of the original melody
Aliaksandra Sikorskaya
Dance dramaturgy
Polina Fenko
Production
HZT, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch"
Special thanks to
György Jellinek, Amr Karkout, Katsia Zhi, Elena Korchagina, Lukas
Partners
Potsdamer Tanztage
You can recognize a tango by its first steps and sounds. But wherever tango appears, all its contexts shimmer through the dancing bodies: stories of migration, displacement, wars, and violence.
The two men dancing here bring the tango with them from different dictatorships: having fled Russia and Syria, they find themselves in Potsdam as a tango couple.

Can you tell the two dancers' stories, can you feel them when you see them dancing on the tip of the island?

Contacts: thelasttango2024@gmail.com.
Witnessing happening it all for the last time
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Photos by Katya Smolina.

feedback
Violetta Morozenko
Performance artist
Vera's tango project was filled with many stories and emotions for me. I felt like I was on a ship, witnessing the relationship of two people — the life that unfolds into a dance set to the surrounding sounds. A story without answers, choreography that creates a unique picture for each viewer, a picture that lingers as the actors, dancers, friends, lovers, and people move into the distance. A performance that raises questions.
Violetta Morozenko
Performance artist
Vera's tango project was filled with many stories and emotions for me. I felt like I was on a ship, witnessing the relationship of two people — the life that unfolds into a dance set to the surrounding sounds. A story without answers, choreography that creates a unique picture for each viewer, a picture that lingers as the actors, dancers, friends, lovers, and people move into the distance. A performance that raises questions.
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