Anthology Andreas Hannes

Anthology is a dynamic performance that centres on one simple movement: skipping.

Five dancers enter the stage and create a rhythmic whirlwind of movement. Driven by mash-ups of pop songs from the past decade, they take the audience on a festive journey through music, dance and memories.

The choreography is built from annual mash-ups of popular music. These fast-paced tracks combine dozens of hits into one continuous flow. In a similar way, Anthology blends references to dance styles, internet culture and popular visual language. The performance explores the origins of skipping and its various applications within dance history – from folk dance to ballet, from club dance to hip hop.

Skipping forms the common thread that connects everything. Through a constantly changing stream of steps, rhythms and gestures, the stage transforms into an arena of movement — sometimes resembling an ice rink, a sports field or a ballroom. Dance histories appear briefly, collide and dissolve again.

With resilience and melancholy, Anthology proposes a way to move through an overload of information, in a rapidly changing and exhausting society. In this energetic landscape, the performance examines how pop culture functions as a shared rhythm of our time — a living archive that connects generations through movement, music and collective memory.