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Melanie Jame Wolf: Ballads of Outlaw Feelings – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin

Saison 25/26
20:00
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Melanie Jame Wolf:
Ballads of Outlaw Feelings

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Melanie Jame Wolf:
Ballads of Outlaw Feelings
Performance
Duration: 45 Min.
English
10€/15€/20€/25€

Ballads of Outlaw Feelings explores song as a vessel for tenderness in a hard world. It is an evolving solo performance series exploring lyrics, the voice, ear worms, and language acts as a compass for crossing emotional landscapes and other territories. Ballads of Outlaw Feelings is a treatise against conventional codes of emotional containment. Staging herself as The Host, Wolf works with folk fragments, pop hooks, anthemic choruses, and the dark comedy of the cosmic joke to invite audiences into an intimate encounter with lyrical devotion.

If you have any questions from the following information, please contact Stefanie Hauser at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35.

  • Duration
  • Approx. 45 minutes without break

Language

  • English spoken language with very little German spoken language

Light

  • The lighting mood is rather dark.
  • There are light changes in different colors. The light changes are not abrupt.

Sound

  • It can get loud in some places. Earplugs are provided.

Other

  • Stage fog is used

Interaction

  • The performer asks questions to the audience. No person is addressed directly or individually.

Audience

  • Chair rows
  • 2 beanbag seats bookable subject to availability
  • 2 wheelchair spaces bookable subject to availability

Early boarding

  • There will be a long admission.

Tickets

  • Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
  • Via the online ticket shop
  • At the box office

You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.

Concept, text, direction, performance: Melanie Jame Wolf
Sculpture, installation: Melanie Jame Wolf
Dramaturgy: Louise Trueheart
Styling: Evan Loxton
Assistance: Felix Deiters

Ballads of Outlaw Feelings was originally conceived within the context of The Creep, a production of Melanie Jame Wolf in co-production with Sophiensæle. Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm Tanz. Media partners: Missy MagazineSiegessäuletaz.

Melanie Jame Wolf is a choreographer, writer, and visual artist who lives in Berlin. She works solo and with friends, making interdisciplinary pieces about power, flows of capital, and the phenomenon of 'show business': the liminal, the persuasive, the deceptive, the staged, the performed. Her work is concerned with the problems and poetics of class, sensuality, gender, narratology, and the body as an unruly political riddle. These investigations are often expressed through a hyper-stylised pop aesthetic and play with language in subliminal and surprising ways. Her work has shown at: HAU - Hebbel am Ufer; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, nGbK, The National 2019: New Australian Art Biennial, Festival of Live Art Melbourne, VAEFF Film Festival NYC, Arts Santa Monica Barcelona, Schwules Museum, Sophiensaele, Münchner Kammerspiele, Arts House Melbourne; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstmuseum Basel, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, and Schirn Kunsthalle. She was a nominee of the 2022 Berlin Art Prize.

 

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