Luisa Fernanda Alfonso: Masterpiece – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso:
Masterpiece
Masterpiece
No languag, songs in Spanish
10€/15€/20€/25€
Goethe-Institut as guest
As part of The freedom to be free
More showings as part of Tanztage Berlin 2025.
Out of her fascinations and frustrations, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso embodies and turns around the archetypes of The Character Dancer and The Mariachi – characterized for being hyper-dramatic, hyper-virtuous and hyper-gendered. Masterpiece explores both their excesses in the tumult of nostalgic and Latin American associations, hijacking the dance from its legitimacy, legacy and traditions.
How can we create conditions for these archetypes to exist with us today? How to find pleasure in spaces where we no longer know how to position ourselves? What resonates through our simultaneous fascination and irritation? In collaboration with composer Peter Rubel and an abundance of loudspeakers, Masterpiece deals with the poetics of building, unbuilding, repeating, modulating, interrupting and abandoning dances and songs, which attempt to exist within consonance and dissonance.
The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).
Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.
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, sound, performance: Luisa Fernanda Alfonso
Sound, Performance: Peter Rubel
Costumes: Isabelle Marie Lange
A production by Luisa Fernanda Alfonso in cooperation with HZT Berlin. With the kind support of Goethe-Institut. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso is a Colombian dancer living in Berlin. She graduated from Limón PSP in New York, B.A. in Dance at the Folkwang University in Essen and M.A. SODA at HZT Berlin. She approaches dance and performance as a carefully orchestrated artificial theatrical apparatus. Her affinity to sound composition, loudspeakers and voice recordings is interwoven with her way of thinking and making choreography. Her work has been part of Kunstverein München, and Festivals Les Urbaines, TanzNRW, thecarrierbag, Parallèle, Domingo, Rakete, and Mind Eater. She has worked with Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez, Leila Hekmat, caner teker, juan felipe amaya gonzalez, Luísa Saraiva, Deva Schubert, Sanna Helena Berger, Emilie Gregersen, Kim Dall’armi, Armin Hokmi and Xenia Koghilaki.
Peter Rubel is a musician based in Essen. He studied instrumental and electronic composition at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Günter Steinke, Dirk Reith and Michael Edwards, as well as organ with Roland Stangier. Peter Rubel is a member of ensembles/bands such as Müde, GLIS GLIS, International Music, Laava and The Düsseldorf Düsterboys. His work focuses on long durations, overtones, beats, amplification, polyrhythms and instrumental expansion through electronics. Since 2016 he is part of the committee of the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Ruhr e.V. and since 2018 he curates the concert series Soundfloat. Peter collaborated with Gökçe Ogultekin and Luísa Saraiva in their work Hark! and with Luisa Fernanda Alfonso in her work Masterpiece.