The Creep at feldfünf is the first in a series of installations by Berlin based choreographer and visual artist, Melanie Jame Wolf, in which she will enact her ongoing creep studies. It is a choreography between two figures – a cowboy and a mountain – embodying a poetic meditation on violence and storytelling.

Жизела / Giselle uses dance and language to explore the similarities and differences between the artist Jelena Stefanoska and the tragic ballet character Giselle. The piece tells of the need to love and be loved – and, above all, of the desire and feeling to live a life with dignity.

Bang Bang Bodies embarks on a choreographic journey into the collective imaginary. What brings bodies together? Where can the experience of togetherness be situated? The work uses headbanging – common in the metal and punk scenes, rituals, and protests – as an endless chain of reciprocity of space and time, sweat and breath, but also historical, cultural and political particles between bodies. 

Permeating the piece is the notion of theinvisible lap dance, consisting of small, nearly imperceptible dances that use the gaze to blur the borders between the giver and receiver. By relying on erotics and building togetherness, Lounge taps into the comfort of rest as an active claim of womanhood.

in the upcoming edition of the PARIYESTAN-multiverse – a series of durational collective dream meditations - we will focus on slow, dreamy choreography accompanied by recitations of traditional persian poetry and classical live music, this time specifically around the topics of sisterhood and motherland. sisterhood is embraced in the form of resistance. a gathering of sisters dreaming together in languages they don’t understand. they share artistic expressions freely while creating a monument in time together. through slowness, love and trust, they are powerfully exploring other possibilities of co-existing.

Nurtured and inspired by the Kurdish feminist movement, the performance is an invitation to experience a feast of visual and musical expression of the self, the individual body, one's fluid identity, and the complexity of exile, multi-layered identities and their transnational character.

Matria – Motherland explores Malambo, the resistance dance of the gauchos, that combines the step dance – "zapateo" – juxtaposed with rhythmic movements driven by the Bombo Legüero, an Argentine drum.

Between seeing and being seen, the real and the virtual, A Sensation of a Truth deals with the perception of oneself in relation to the etiquettes attached to it. Scrutinizing the opacity of people's gaze, the performance infiltrates their trajectories and explores their distance and immediacy. 

Backbone Berlin is a platform that aims to facilitate and foster long term support to artistic practice within the independent dance scene of Berlin, as well as to question current issues related to precarity of artistic work amongst others. During the workshop Backbone Berlin will introduce their favorite practices that emerged out of the sessions in 2022. The workshop is dedicated to independent professionals in the dance and performance field from Berlin and beyond.

VIBRATIONS, TRANSLATIONS – an encounter of music, performance and dance - looks into the ritualistic processes of translation between sound vibrations and body motions.

With this workshop, we hope to bring awareness to the importance of starting a more consistent discussion on mental health and to explore the needs of the community.

BICHO RARO investigates the world of bodybuilding – its lifestyle, exercise routines and aesthetics – to uncover the tension between the body cult nowadays and a queer perspective on the physicality.

While using dance and songs to tell stories about personal fears, dreams and desires, this fragmented musical performance shifts from self-talk to embodying characters from the online world – news anchors, preachers and influencers – giving an incomplete picture of their apocalyptic fantasies and political agendas. 

A worn-out little creature that identifies itself solely through exuberating hunger for more makes up a fantasy world to avoid its surroundings and itself. The performance addresses the emotional function of the musical, offering itself as a coping strategy in hopeless times.

Is dance about competition, excellence and individual success only? What are the conditions – actual and desired – for dance to be happening to the benefit of our society and the workers within the dance field? How can we recognize and transform both conscious and unconscious beliefs about the role and meaning of work in our lives? AG Work Culture invites to a discussion and a collective writing session around their digital booklet “how to (make) dance in berlin – a toolbox for a better work culture in the independent dance scene”.