The Second Glance: Women | Sasha Waltz

Film

“Women” is the second integrated exhibition in the series The Second Glance. The show analyses the traditional gender roles and challenges the functions ascribed to women in society – for example, as goddesses, heroines, prostitutes, saints, queens, academics – and on the role of women in society. In six themed paths featuring 62 objects dating from the 4th to the 18th century, these women are situated within their own historical contexts and also discussed through the critical lens of the 21st century.

Sasha Waltz studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. Together with Jochen Sandig, she founded the company Sasha Waltz & Guests in 1993. She is a co-founder of the  Sophiensæle (1996) as well as the Radialsystem (2006) in Berlin. From 2000 to 2004 she was a member of the administration of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. During the 2019–20 season, Sasha Waltz, together with Johannes Öhman, assumed the directorship of the Berlin State Ballet. The development of innovative and boundary-transcending forms of performance and creation is an important focus of her artistic work, in which she draws a line from internationally renowned dance pieces through choreographed operas right up to pioneering dialogue projects. In her current choreographic work, Waltz is concentrating on the consolidation of collaborative processes, such as the synchronous development of choreography and music. In parallel, Sasha Waltz is engaged in the transfer of dance knowledge and in dance as a medium for social and socio-political understanding. Since 2013 she has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts.