Made is a curious and pretty bling – as in very white – space on the ninth floor of Haus des Reisens on Alexanderplatz. Their focus is to bring people from different media together and work out a new collaboration, so you never really know what to expect, which I suppose is the idea. It can be a little hit and miss at times, but their latest project this Sunday sounds promising indeed, with a prestigious triple bill uniting London-based media collective Random International, renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor and composer Max Richter. Even better, it’s free, if you sign up in advance. Find out more here.

Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer are collaborating once again: the duo, who last year released a double-album of re-worked material from the ECM catalogue, are now re-shaping the legendary track Zug by Conrad Schnitzler. The 12″ includes a 20-minute mix of Aktion, on the A-side and 15-minute Sorgenkind mix on the flip. The collection will be available on LP, CD and digital download. This looks to be a fitting tribute to Schnitzler, who passed away last year.

‘Zug’ by Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer
Out on May 14 2012 via m=minimal

Medea is a project directed by Dimitris Papaioannou with the team of Mesa Project. As Die Walküre by Wagner, their work lasts six hours, from 17.30 till 23.30. The exciting point of this project is that, as an audience, one may come and go whenever s/he wants, create her/his own composition by choosing when and from which seat to watch. Besides the outstanding stage and lighting design, costumes and the choreography are breathtaking. Unfortunately, in order to see them, one must go to Athens.

Posttheater is as an interdisciplinary performing arts unit. They present multi-media performances, theater and dance. Caffee was performed in Dock11 few days ago and there will be another Berlin premiere on the 23rd of February.

‘Is it dance? Media art? Or Performance art? post theater does not worry about labeling. As long as the result is a disturbing, intense, and memorable experience for the audience.‘

Express Fight Club (Version IV)
A Media-Guided Theater-Choreography

Berlin-Premiere: Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 – 8:30 pm at Dock11

Artistic direction: Hiroko Tanahashi / Max Schumacher
Performers: anonymous, Alexander Schröder
Choreography: anonymous
Video art: Yoann Trellu
Sound / Music: Sibin Vassilev

Good news, you Bear and/or Dept. lovers, these are good news.

Experience the best album released this year – live in Germany, Australia, or elsewhere. Again.

Now that you’ve seen us dancing to some unlikely tunes (last week, thanks to Chris Taylor), why not talk about Robert Sylvester Kelly for a minute: He may or may not be about to drop a memoir, amazingly titled Soula Coaster: The Diary Of Me (he is the true head of headlines, you know?), and of course he already promised “his fans an intimate and unforgettable ride.” However, we still prefer some of those alternative titles…

As you might have noticed, it’s CANT/Chris Taylor week over here, so how about some actual music: Hear CANT in a full concert, recorded live at Moogfest in Asheville, N.C.

For all you German FANTs out there, get ready for next week:

09.11.11 Berlin – Magnet
10.11.11 Hamburg – Indra
16.11.11 Köln – Gebäude 9