In Let's Just Be Friends, Simone Dede Ayivi interviews people who live their friendships as a feminist counter-concept to family businesses or marriages: Friends who do projects together or take on responsibilities for each other that are usually attributed to the close family context or romantic relationships between two people.

In Shortcuts to Familiar Places, James Batchelor creates a personal performance about the body as a site of historical and choreographic inscription.

With Radical Minimal, the Berlin-based Company Christoph Winkler explores the radical potential of minimal music and contemporary dance. In three choreographies, the team reinterprets three well-known pieces of minimal music: Come Out by Steve Reich, Coming Together by Frederic Rzewski and Stay on it by Julius Eastman.

Lois Alexander explores the afterlife of slavery and the reverberations on our present.Yeye explores memory, traces and notions of a motherland, moving through different levels of video, text and performance.

Lois Alexander explores the afterlife of slavery and the reverberations on our present.Yeye explores memory, traces and notions of a motherland, moving through different levels of video, text and performance.

In her new performance, Anna Natt, together with experimental musician Robert Curgenven, examines the vampire figure of Nosferatu for its queerness.

If you want to get to know the history of Sophiensæle, join one of our guided tours. Regular guided tours are in German. English guided tours are available for groups of five people or more.

In her 1974 science fiction novel The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin describes an ambivalent social utopia that makes political ideas such as anarchism, socialism and capitalism tangible. HORIZON PROBLEMS is dedicated to this multi-layered scenario and makes it experienceable from a queer-feminist perspective with the means of contemporary dance. The bodies on stage challenge and nourish each other, play, and exploit – a microcosm of solos and imperfect unison.

We live in the midst of horror and we are used to it. Houses freezing without heating, forests on fire, families running across the border while others go shopping. Michelle Moura, part of the Tanzplattform 2022, approaches the physical language of horror – its exaggeration and hyperbole – to reflect the present. Three dancers move through life and death, wonder and laughter, violence and fragility in a magical, grotesque realm.

Henrike Iglesias are back and celebrating their 10th anniversary! FLAMES TO DUST is a show about finality and mourning, endings and loops and loops and endings. An interactive composition for 30 smartphones as well as their users, a few skulls, artificial rain and approximately two performers. Together we ask ourselves: Why do all good things come to an end (end)? And what if we could always start over again?

The tax return is THE big community-building financial event of the year! But frustration is inevitable: too time-consuming, too complicated, too bureaucratic. With a grand glamorous gesture and together with a group of magpies, hannsjana turns the tax return into a manifesto for a society based on solidarity. In an entertaining and
humorous revue, the performance collective takes a feminist look at bureaucratic overload.

Back to the future: In Die Vielhundertjährigen, the audience is contacted by the only contemporary witnesses of a long-gone division between the biological and the digital. These people, several hundred years old, are now inhabitants of a post-digital world. Based on fantasies and wishes for the world, the ensemble, ranging in age from 65 to 87, create their own science fiction narrative.

Within the framework of Die Vielhunderjährigen will be a film-screening of Robotron – A Tech Opera - the first soap opera set in the computer industry of the GDR and deals with computer development in a planned economy and everyday life in East Germany. A talk with the artist will follow.