September/October

With six premieres and numerous revivals and guest performances, Sophiensæle is starting the fall and the 2024/2025 season. Göksu Kunak will open the season on September 11 as part of Berlin Art Week 2024 with a new performance. INNOCENCE deals with the Susurluk scandal, a notorious car accident in Turkey that revealed connections between state institutions, the drug mafia and a state within a state. With This resting, patience, Sophiensæle celebrates the revival of a performance by Ewa Dziarnowska that already thrilled audiences at its premiere (Tanztage Berlin 2024).

Also as part of Art Week, one of Europe's most idiosyncratic directors and choreographers is a guest at the Sophiensæle. Gisèle Vienne's powerful imagery penetrates deep into the subconscious and dissects interpersonal relationships in an impressive way. Her film Jerk will be shown, a minimalist work on questions of power relations, incarnation and the disembodiment of bodies.

With sharp-tongued and fast-paced dialogue, Datscha by Isabelle Redfern/MamaNoSing deals with Golda Barton's rewriting of Gorky's Sommergäste, social advancement, classism, life plans and discarded ideals.

Henrike Iglesias & Miss Theatre dare a multimedia and interactive experiment with AFTERLIVES. In search of possible parallel realities and queer politics of dying, the performance takes place simultaneously in Bangkok and Berlin. Also in the Sophiensæle program in October: Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim, Kévin Bonono, Hendrik Quast, Turbo Pascal, Liina Magnea and Thibault Lac.