Previously on UN/POLISHED: Over the course
of a sunny weekend in August 2016, a group
of Berlin-based Polish artists took over DOCK11 in an attempt to put the ‘national’ back into international. Modern dance, postmodern dance, Tanztheater, the non-dance from the 1990s and the post-internet dance that looks like your younger sister’s Snapchat — all of them are Polish now. The future looks bright and polished as well.
UN/POLISHED 2 is a five-day crash course
in achieving national greatness when you are on a tight budget. Once again DOCK 11 will be occupied by the Polish dance crowd living in Berlin, this time with a contribution of their colleagues from Warsaw and international friends. Still sticking together in these unpolished times.
This year’s festival takes a closer look at the inter/national identity of dance. Is thinking about today’s contemporary dance context in terms of center and peripheries relevant? If yes — where is the original source of its contemporaneity and is
