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.
Visitors with Berlin Pass can buy tickets for 3€ at the box office. These can be reserved in advance by sending an email to ticketing@sophiensaele.com.
The performance will be followed by an audience discussion.
The Sophiensaele elevator is currently out of order.
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. Together they seek practices of solidarity and self-empowerment, acknowledging the efforts of (political) groups such as the Prolesbians, the Arbeiter*innentöchtern (Workers' Daughters), and many others. In the exchange of memories, narratives and different dance techniques, they formulate their desire for a society without class relations.
If any questions remain from the following information, please feel free to contact Gina Jeske at jeske@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that the accessibility information is subject to possible changes. The piece lasts about 50 minutes and is mostly in German spoken language. In one moment a little fire is set. Presumably a smoke machine will be used. The first 10 minutes of the performance take place in the courtyard of Sophiensæle. Stools are available for seating. Afterwards the audience goes up to Hochzeitssaal. Please approach our staff if you need to use the elevator. Seating options in Hochzeitssaal are chairs and cushions. There will also be one beanbag seat and two wheelchair spaces that can be reserved by phone or booked via the online ticket shop or at the box office, if available. If you require specific seating of any other kind, please arrive 20-30 minutes prior to show time and approach our evening staff.
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JOSEPHINE FINDEISEN studied dance, context, choreography (BA) at the HZT Berlin. Her choreographic practice investigates social realities and their influence on moving bodies. In doing so, Josephine engages with female-proletarian perspectives and researches entanglements of class, gender and body. Since summer 2021 she organizes the open network meeting Arbeiter*innentöchter Vereinigt Euch! at historical labor sites and monuments in Berlin. With Working Class Dance Group she follows the desire to build a network in which class structures can be physically negotiated.
CONCEPT & PERFORMANCE Josephine Findeisen CO-CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE Melissa Ferrari ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE Johanna Findeisen DRAMATURGY Andrej Mirčev DRAMATURGICAL & THEORETICAL ASSISTANCE Anne Rieke LIGHTING Sanja Gergorić PRODUCTION SUPPORT Luisa Scholz TRAILER Durch Zeit und Raum - Donvtello Tightill
A production by Josephine Findeisen. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe (entry funding 2021) and the residency "Vertiefungen" of Uferstudios GmbH within the framework of the residency funding dance of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the kind support of Uferstudios GmbH and Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte. The Performing Arts Festival Berlin is an event of LAFT Berlin and is funded by the State of Berlin - Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
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.
