A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Imagining Futures brought together twelve innovative performing arts festivals for a pan-European experiment – a future-focused and predominantly female peer network that offered participating festival directors and artists a deep listening space and a moment to be together, think together, and dream of different futures.
The performance project Bodies of Care, a collaboration of young choreographers from Indonesia and Germany, invites the audience to a participatory exploration of the relationship between care and choreography.
A contribution by the feminist media organization Jeem, that produces critical and cultural knowledge in Arabic on gender and sexuality with the aim of challenging mainstream narratives surrounding these topics.
The performance project Bodies of Care, a collaboration of young choreographers from Indonesia and Germany, invites the audience to a participatory exploration of the relationship between care and choreography.
The performance project Bodies of Care, a collaboration of young choreographers from Indonesia and Germany, invites the audience to a participatory exploration of the relationship between care and choreography.
In Question of Belief, choreographer Kareth Schaffer addresses the demons of today’s world: Between actionism and laziness, distraction and apathy, the performers Mădălina Dan and Manon Parent fight their way through stage designer Dan Lancea's inflating stage landscape.
Working Class Dance Group shows a working state of an ongoing research on class structures. The dancers revisit historical, female-proletarian perspectives and investigate the intersections of class, gender and the body.
June 03 04 05 | 14.00 June 03 04 05 | 17.00
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Based on debates about the toppling of statues as well as the renaming of street names and an accompanying new examination of memory culture, the youth projekt invite you to a performative and interactive audio walk.
The interdisciplinary project Terrestrial Transit deals with the activist practice of artistic intervention, which is gaining importance again in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe, in view of the strengthening of right-wing authoritarian regimes. The work of the dance company CRANKY BODIES a/company, founded in August 2020 by Peter Pleyer and Michiel Keuper, refers in particular to political forms of protest in the tradition of Polish and Hungarian dance and performance art before the fall of the Wall.
History has failed us, but... deals with physical forms of protest and searches for a solidary togetherness while taking into account different bodies. Which narratives and images of resistance are remembered - and how are they told?
The Sophiensæle are happy to be able to catch up this summer with the work of Kiana Rezvani from the Tanztage Berlin 2022 programme, which could not be presented during the festival in January due to the pandemic.
The Panda Pussies bring an inclusive, cross-generational gender theater to the stage – in the best anarchic Schlingensief tradition, with music and intelligent racket.
From 19 to 21 May 2022, the Goethe-Institut is staging the interdisciplinary festival Frequencies. Sharing Feminisms. Over three days, the festival will open up resonant spaces for feminist debates and movements at the Pfefferberg area and the Sophiensaele in Berlin.
Every new year, the Tanztage Berlin is not only the city's very first festival, it has also established itself nationally and internationally as an important platform for emerging dance artists since its founding in 1996. The next edition of Tanztage Berlin will once again take place under the artistic direction of Mateusz Szymanówka. The festival is currently planned for 5-21 January 2023 - however, the form as well as the exact date will depend on the constant reassessment of the pandemic. The festival offers emerging dance artists based in Berlin a framework for their new productions and revivals. The programme of the last two editions can be found at: https://tanztage-berlin.sophiensaele.com.
Open Call by Making a Difference: Residency and co-production for disabled, Deaf and chronically ill choreographers/dancers in 2023
The residency will happen in summer 2023 and the co-production in fall/winter 2023. You’ll get a studio for 4 weeks (all day, even weekends) for rehearsing at Uferstudios, a working fee of 2600€ (same for your partner) and 800€ for material costs.
After the residency you’ll go into a second 4-6 weeks long work and rehearsing phase for a production at Uferstudios. For this you will get a co-production contribution of 15.000€. Making a Difference can also help you writing further funding applications, if the 15.000€ wouldn’t be enough.
You don’t need to have any artistic education or long working experience. You just need an idea. The residency is for artists who want to work on a solo or in a duo with someone else and who live in Berlin.
Open Call in German Sign Language (Video: Rita Mazza):
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If you want to apply, please tell us:
- who you are - have you worked on any other artistic projects in the past? If yes, can you send us information (videos, pictures, texts)? - what is your idea for the residency/co-production?
You can send us your application until Friday, 13th of May 2022. Your application can be a text, an audio or a video in wither spoken or sign language. Please send your application to: making-a-difference@sophiensaele.com
The jury consists of partners from the Making a Difference network, the Uferstudios team and the project coordinators from Making a Difference. The decision will be announced at the end of May 2022.
If you have any questions, you can contact Anne Rieger or Noa Winter through email: making-a-difference@sophiensaele.com or phone: 030 27 89 00-58. Both are hearing, but there’s a budget for sign language interpretation.
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