From Renaissance dance to folk, tango and techno
Music and movement - the two have been inseparable since the dawn of mankind. Dance structures and accompanies all areas of human life: it makes cultic festivals and rites comprehensible, organizes social interaction and reflects social hierarchies. However, the most important role of dance is and remains the experience of community and, of course, the spontaneous expression of joie de vivre.
The 2024 Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival is dedicated to these different facets of dance, from the Renaissance court ball or the Strasbourg dance frenzy of 1518 to Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps", 20th century tango and flamenco and a techno choreography from Berlin.
The Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival is a festival featuring music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods in historically informed performance practice. In recent years, it has also opened up to jazz, world music and new music. The festival takes place every year for three weeks in June with around 80 events in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens of Potsdam & Berlin as well as in the historic center of Potsdam and its surroundings.
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