"Run Time Anomaly" von Simon Steen-Andersen mit der Jugendtanzcompany Sasha Waltz & Guests

What happens when you encourage a group of young dancers to climb a building that’s been turned on its side—or turned upside down? Or what if 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. Together with theyouth dance company of Sasha Waltz & Guestsand choreographers Lázló Sandig and Wibke Storkan, composer, performer, and sound artistSimon Steen-Andersentook 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, 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 reimagined versions of the dancers’ own favorite dance tracks.

The world premiere was commissioned and produced by the Voices Berlin festival in 2025. We are delighted to now present the final version of the piece.

“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

Contributors

Concept, Direction, Co-Choreography, Music, and Video: Simon Steen-Andersen
Choreography and Co-Direction: Wibke Storkan and László Sandig

Dancers: Sasha Waltz & Guests Youth Dance Company with
Alma Nemes, Antonia Miriam Milbrodt, Benedikt Jenke, Emilio Münch, Frida Gabriel, Josephine Martingell, Mira Antonina Campo Jastrzębski, Nika Brovot, Pablo Fontaine, Thurid Raupach, Toni Lehnert, Yemi Blue Meyer

Costumes: Clara Fee Stürzl, Nina Ballhause
Camera Assistant: Peter Tinning
Production Manager: Olga Haulet
Executive Producer: Yara Ziva-Chernova
Marketing and Communications: Artem Arsenyan
Technical Production: Act!WorX
Director of the Children’s and Youth Dance Company: Emilie Guérin

Commissioned and Produced by: Voices Berlin

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.