The Berlin music theatre group Hauen und Stechen presents its version of the opera Salomé. The production, based on an opera by Richard Strauss and a text by Oscar Wilde, alternates between music and dance. It is a film, a journey, a fair and a dance of death all in one.
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For his latest project, Hendrik Quast learns the art of ventriloquism in order to approach the chronic inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis artistically. In conversation with the disease, new ways of speaking and images of chronic illness emerge, opening up unusual spaces of humor for the ill and healthy audience.
The online audiovisual installation esmalbesserhabenin.de is dedicated to family narratives, generational conflicts, political struggles, and visions of the future in families of immigrant heritage.
For a long time now, collective mourning and its rituals have been disappearing from public space. Golden Gate questions our normative perceptions of loss and mourning. What is queer grief and in what way can it become a collective movement of melancholy and resistance?
MARCH 1–13
In the third round of our spring series QUEER DARLINGS we again bring old and new favorites to Berlin: Frédéric Gies, Cherish Menzo, Vincent Riebeek, Teresa Vittucci + Colin Self, tiran, and others focus on contemporary translations of archetypal figures and myths: They appropriate archetypes in order to remove the basis of stereotypes, and create new mythologies in order to establish communities that are as tender as they are political.
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MARCH 16–20
From March 16 to 20, the Tanzplattform Deutschland 2022 festival will gather 13 current and remarkable positions of dance and choreographic creation in Berlin, including three Sophiensaele productions by Sheena McGrandles, Joana Tischkau and Michelle Moura.
» moreDie SOPHIENSÆLE suchen ab APRIL 2022 eine*n Projektmanager*in Digitale Entwicklung (d/w/m) zum Auf- und Ausbau der digitalen Infrastruktur.
Das Projekt Making a Difference und Tanzkomplizen bieten eine Arbeitsresidenz und anschließende Koproduktion für behinderte, taube oder chronisch kranke Tanzschaffende. Tanzkomplizen steht für Tanz für junge Publikum in Berlin. Die Residenz ist die erste Probenphase für ein neues Stück mit Tanzkomplizen. Nach der Residenz folgt eine weitere Probenphase zur Fertigstellung des Stücks.
The call for applications for the next round of Freischwimmen will be published at the beginning of February 2022. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2022.
In cooperation with K3-Centre for Choreography | Tanzplan Hamburg, HELLERAU-European Centre for the Arts and Sophiensæle Berlin, dramaturg/curator Anne Kersting and cultural producer Alexandra Schmidt offer a further education programme for freelance dance dramaturgs dedicated to teaching dramaturgical practice in dance.
The current artistic director and dramaturgy team of the Sophiensæle had a shareholders' meeting on 26.8.2021. It was decided to publish a call for applications in December 2021 for the upcoming change of artistic direction in summer 2023. The announcement of the new team will take place in the summer of 2022.
Due to the ongoing uncertain planning situation, after three attempts of postponing the festival since January 2021, we have to inform you with a heavy heart that the event won’t take place this year.
