Dragana Bulut: Membering – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin

Dragana Bulut: Membering

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Membering invites the audience into a collective practice of repair. Together with the performers they gather around fragments, memories and inherited histories, moving through acts of restoration, therapy and archive – as choreographies for living with what remains.

Departing from a personal family history marked by war, fascist violence and loss, Dragana Bulut explores social choreographies of grief and repair. Choreography becomes a way of tracing how grief travels across bodies, generations and collective memory over time, and how events we did not experience ourselves can nevertheless become part of what we carry. In this way, Membering is not a performance about overcoming grief, but an invitation to ask how we might carry it together.

Please note that, for safety and conceptual reasons, the performance is intended for participants aged 16 and up.

In simple words

In Membering, the audience and performers practise repair together. Dragana Bulut tells of war and loss in her family. Membering asks: How does grief pass from one generation to the next? And how can we carry it together?

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The performance addresses grief, death, (transgenerational) trauma and fascist violence. 
It includes archival footage showing human bones.

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).

Duration

  • Approx. 90 minutes without intermission

Language

  • English spoken language

Other effects

  • Projections of video material and archival footage

Audience area

  • Seated grandstand
  • During the performance, the audience moves from their seats into the stage area
  • There will be tables and chairs on stage where audience members will be seated
  • The audience takes part in the restoration process and will work with ceramic and ceramic glue
  • 2 beanbag seats, bookable subject to availability
  • 2 wheelchair spaces, bookable subject to availability

Sound

  • There are a few musical interludes
  • At one point, there is a high-frequency

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.

Artistic direction, choreography, performance: Dragana Bulut
Performance: Cécile Bally
Dramaturgy: Andrew Hardwidge
Lighting design: Gustav Kleinschmidt
Sound design: Jean P'ark
Assistant: Darcey Bennett
Costume design: Sy-Yu Chen
Set design: Yi-Ju Chou
Cinematography: Joanna Piechotta
Film research, editing: Dragana Jovanović
Costum consultation: Sy-Yu Chen
Voiceover: Saša Asentić
Production management: M.i.C.A.
Thanks to: Christian Bäucker, Aleksa Dragicević, Milena Bulut

A production by Dragana Bulut in co-production with Sophiensæle. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Media partners: The Berliner, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz, tip Berlin.

Dragana Bulut is choreographer, performer, and researcher. She regards the theater as a public forum: a place of social gathering for critical investigation of the various structures and intersections of aesthetics, economics, and emotions. By transposing established formats into theatre frame, she creates performances rooted in the tension between the material and the immaterial realms, between tangibility and affect, to explore the space between reality and fiction. These social choreographies bring to light the, often, overlooked shifting processes that choreograph our behaviors as a society.  

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  • A person in a blue cap and dark top sits alone, seen from behind, on a long wooden bench in front of a low wall. The view stretches across green hills with scattered houses, utility poles and power lines to hazy mountains. Two balls and a stone lie beside the wall.
    © Dragana Bulut
  • The interior of a roofless stone ruin, overgrown with ivy and slender trees. Rubble and leaves cover the ground. A small barred window sits in the back wall, and daylight falls through the leaves from above.
    © Dragana Bulut
  • A person in a blue cap, dark top and olive shorts stands seen from behind at the bow of a covered wooden boat, holding a green railing. The boat moves along a calm river between dense reeds, with water lily leaves floating on the surface. Mountains lie in the distance under a blue sky.
    © Dragana Bulut
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    © Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė