Continue reading “Hello Death”Enis Turan glamorously stages his own death in “Club27”, a co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Inky Lee
is a South Korean artist living in Berlin. She creates poems, performances, songs, videos and body decorations. After studying dance in Massachusetts, London and Arizona, she seeped into the practice of writing about bodies in performative and personal arena. Her writings appeared at platforms such as The Performance Club, Time Out NY and FLAUT Magazine.
Long Black Hair
Inky Lee embarks on a hairy journey, inspired by Areli Moran’s “La Postal de nuestra Existencia,” in which Moran becomes the goddess of ‘Hair, hair, long beautiful hair!’
Continue reading “Long Black Hair”“La Postal de nuestra Existencia” premiered at the Sophiensæle on 16 January 2020 within the frame of Tanztage Berlin.*
Berlin-Cool
Continue reading “Berlin-Cool”“Sarabande” by Sasha Amaya, and “Tricks for Gold (T4$)” by Frida Giulia Franceschini premiered at the Sophiensæle on 8 January in the frame of Tanztage Berlin 2020.
Hands
Continue reading “Hands”Four deaf performers, Steve Stymest, Jan Kress, Rita Mazza, and Athina Lange, create a musical, “Vier”, using the richness and diversity of German Sign Language and Visual Vernacular to access music from a different angle. “Vier – A Visual Musical in Sign Language” premiered 17 December 2019 at Sophiensæle.
Breathing Space
Continue reading “Breathing Space”In the month of November 2019, Lake Studios Berlin offered “Double Bill Residency” to support the creation and the presentation of works by Grace Euna Kim – “Dance Party (the apocalypse is disappointing)” – and Agnė Auželytė & Stephen Doyle – “Undone (a breath score)”. The works premiered on the 6th December at Lake Studios Berlin.
Hyphenated Identities
Continue reading “Hyphenated Identities”With “Dance workshop Afrotrap” and the performance “Un truc d’ouf” hosted at Ballhaus Ost, performance collective La Fleur asks questions about the mixed identities of Europeans of African descent.
What the Body Remembers
Continue reading “What the Body Remembers”In “Fan de Ellas”, premiering at Sophiensæle, Catalina Fernández, Juliana Piquero, and Alex Viteri dialogue with ‘three Latin American heroines’ through movement, soundscape, and objects.
The Golden Creature
Continue reading “The Golden Creature”In “Melancholía,” a co-production by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Josep Caballero García / Queerpraxis create a sensual world of play where gender and ethnic identities are obscured.
The Choice to Fail
Continue reading “The Choice to Fail”As the final installment of Natal Igor Dobkin’s workshop “My worst performance ever – A Queer Performance Workshop”, part of the Hibernation Party at Raumerweiterungshalle 5 – 6 October, four participants share their works.
No Names, Just Numbers
Continue reading “No Names, Just Numbers”In “Say My Name, Say My Name”, by Olivia Hyunsin Kim / ddanddarakim and premiering at the Sophiensaele, an immersive world of futuristic designs is created through which Kim attempts to hold a mirror up to the past.
Where Are You From?
Continue reading “Where Are You From?”In Auf meinen Schultern, premiering at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Raphael Hillebrand shares the story of how he navigated his brutal exclusion from society through spoken word, dance, sound, and video.
