Contemporary art means for us: to relish the artistic freedom, which in our day and age is continually enriched through constant research into new possibilities in vocabulary, styles, aesthetic worlds and means.

On stage we share with the audience our humanistic world view, which guides our creative and organisational processes: we presuppose individuality, shared responsibility for fellow team mates and for the work, and mutual inspiration and enrichment. At the heart of our work is the consideration of the individual in its interaction with its counterparts.

We acknowledge that the true content of our art is what any spectator experiences in it – independent of whatever we as artists intended, stated or claimed in conjunction with any given piece.

However, it remains our wish to share through our art our world view, our values, and questions we ask ourselves, with the audience.

We envision this audience not as a limited expert audience of colleagues, critics and postmodern enthusiasts, but as a diverse audience of a wide spectrum of backgrounds, interests, views and ages.

This is why we regard achieving a communicative relationship with our spectators as a necessity to imbue the reason and goal of our art with meaning.

Among our unique projects there have been:

Romeo & Juliet: a deconstructed narrative
Rendering: a dialectic dialogue between the classical and the contemporary
Alpha1: dance in 3D

On the history of the ensemble

Founded in 1999, "wee dance" has performed in 13 countries and been described as "one of the most substantial, most versatile, internationally most active Berliner ensembles in contemporary dance" (dance for you magazine).

"At a distance from the fashionable, the wee dance company has for years been developing its discrete and independent aesthetics" (Die Deutsche Bühne) – cleaving its own path out of line with Berlin's off-scene's "Mainstream", it's been noted for being "elegant, meticulous and richly inventive, wonderfully distancing itself from [what] currently dominates Berlin's dance scene" but also as "satisfying a longing whose existence one had long forgotten" (Neues Deutschland).

Biography

Since 2002 Dan Pelleg and Marko E. Weigert have been the company's artistic directors; till then they shared direction with Sommer Ulrickson, who cofounded the company with them in 1999. in 2011 they moved with dancers from Berlin to Görlitz, to succeed Gundula Peuthert and assume the management of the dance department of the GHT-Görlitz-Zittau.

In addition to creating their dance pieces, Weigert has worked as a light designer, Pelleg as a composer and arranger; both worked together and separately as dancers for numerous choreographers, later also for several directors in speaking and singing roles, and as choreographers for theatre, musical and opera productions.

Dance, which is contemporary yet coherent, which speaks for itself; is original, meaningful, communicative, gripping.

"Defying all labels and packaging, the wee dance company are out to confound and intrigue..."

The List, 23.08.2001 / Ruth Hedges