Adam Linder's choreographies combine innovative approaches to movement, virtuosity and performativity, breaking with conventions and holding a mirror up to the discipline itself. It is only fitting then that, together with Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, he now stages a meeting of live musicians and dancers. In “TOURNAMENT”, set to a commissioned score by Ethan Braun, the stage turns into a playing field where five dancers and five musicians test the myth of harmonious unity between these two disciplines. The score is a confrontation between acoustic and digital sound — the concreteness of a dog’s bark set against the abstraction of microtonal harmony. Agonism or competition can be found at the root of much creative impulse and this work moves beyond an oppositional relation to open up a space for playful expression.

Biography

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Photo: Shahryar-Nashat

Adam Linder's practice draws on carefully crafted dance vocabulary to explore how choreography connects desire, cultural values, historical forms, and bodies of the future. His solo and ensemble works for the stage or exhibition space have been shown in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2023), the Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York (2020), the South London Gallery (2018), the Kunsthalle Basel (2017), the Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2016), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015). His stage works have been co-produced and presented by theaters such as HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Kampnagel, Hamburg; DeSingel, Antwerp; Sadler's Wells, London; Hellerau, Dresden, and UCLA CAP / Redcat, Los Angeles. Linder has created commissioned works for the Sydney Dance Company (2010), the Ballet de Lorraine, Nancy (2023), and the Danish Dance Theater, Copenhagen (2024).

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Cast & Credits

DanceOlivia Ancona, Nina Botkay, Paxton Ricketts, Dominic Santia, Juan Pablo Camara
Solistenensemble KaleidoskopAnna Faber, Isabelle Klemt, Yodfat Miron, Boram Lie, Mari Sawada
ChoreographyAdam Linder
CompositionEthan Braun
StageAna Filipović
LightingShahryar Nashat
SoundOlivia Oyama
Sound DesignJulio Zúñiga
Lighting TourSebastian Zamponi
Technical ManagementJan Havers, Doria Worden
Production Management Adam Linder StudioUta Engel
Production & Tour ManagementPhilip Decker
DramaturgyMelanie Zimmermann
Artistic ConsultancyAlice Heyward
Musical RehearsalsKai-Johannes Polzhofer
Score PreparationRoman Vinuesa
Artistic Director Solistenensemble KaleidoskopBoram Lie
Artistic Direction & Management Solistenensemble KaleidoskopVolker Hormann
Project Management Solistenensemble KaleidoskopMichael Hohendorf
Financial Administration Solistenensemble KaleidoskopNina Braatz
Production ManagerSolistenensemble Kaleidoskop and Adam Linder Studio
Co-ProductionKampnagel, deSingel, Tanz im August Berlin / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, December Dance

Funding

The event is part of the Tanzplattform Deutschland 2026.

A production by Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and Adam Linder Studio. A co-production with Kampnagel, deSingel, Tanz im August Berlin / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and December Dance. Supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and the Rusch Foundation. The Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop receives a grant for independent groups without their own venue from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. “TOURNAMENT” is supported by the Foundation for Art and Music in Dresden. 

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