Queer Family Album: Volume 2 – With anonymous, Juliana Piquero, Dylan Spencer-Davidson, Joy Mariama Smith – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Program
Queer Family Album:
Volume 2 – With anonymous, Juliana Piquero, Dylan Spencer-Davidson, Joy Mariama Smith
Volume 2 – With anonymous, Juliana Piquero, Dylan Spencer-Davidson, Joy Mariama Smith
Project by: Katie Lee Dunbar
Ca. 3 × 30 min.; ca. 120 min. in total
Queer Family Album is an ongoing transdisciplinary performance series that brings together a diverse collective of queer artists. Rooted in artist collaboration, it explores queer futurities through performance and storytelling, breaking down barriers and imagining new utopias. The first edition took place in 2024 at Ballhaus Ost, featuring world premieres by KAy Garnellen and Yvonne Sembene. In 2025, the series continues with Volume 2 at Sophiensæle, with works by anonymous, Juliana Piquero, Joy Mariama Smith, and Dylan Spencer-Davidson.
Queer Family Album is committed to amplifying queer voices, creating space for community, and evolving as an ever-growing archive of shared experiences.
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.
Queer Family Album – Collaborating artists: anonymous, Katie Lee Dunbar, KAy Garnellen, Juliana Piquero, Yvonne Sembene, Joy Mariama Smith, Dylan Spencer-Davidson
Costumes, stage: Hagar Ophir
Costumes, stage assistance: Antonia Eckardt
Dramaturgy assistance: Maya Weinerg
Light design: Catalina Fernandez, Shun Perrotta
Sound tech: Lena Marcus
Graphics: Andy Elkanani
Press, marketing, social media: Apricot Productions – Angela Fegers
Production, marketing assistance: Apricot Productions – Nadine Freisleben
Accessibility consultation, access friend: Agnieszka Habraschka
Accessibility: Angela Fegers / Apricot Productions
Assistance to accessibility: Miles Wendt
A production by Katie Lee Dunbar in co-production with Ballhaus Ost and Sophiensæle. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Funded by the Performing Arts Fund from funds provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Juliana Piquero (she/they) was born in Buenos Aires, and lives in Berlin and Madrid. She is a mother, choreographer, dancer, and yoga asana instructor. In her choreographic works, she articulates socio-political issues, archival material, and biographical experiences. She is interested in themes such as Latin American queer feminism; issues related to her identity and to functional diversity and body language. She seeks the efficacy of the undefined and tries to blur the boundaries between dichotomous concepts such as the natural and the artificial, aiming to grasp the complexity of the body as technology. Parallel to her artistic path, since 2024, she has also worked as an IT consultant and analyst.
anonymous is a North African visual artist and creative producer based in London, UK. Their artistic practice explores and dismantles various interpretations of societal notions and adaptations, particularly within the realm of post-coloniality, through performance, installation and imagery.
Katie Lee Dunbar, a queer feminist performance maker, activist, and researcher residing in Berlin, delves into themes of disparity, intimacy, and the intricate relationship between the personal and political in their artistic pursuits encompassing dance, voice, memory, sound, text, and installation. Their collaborative efforts are dedicated to fostering inclusive and non-oppressive environments for dialogue and creativity, reflected in projects like arted, mitkollektiv, and currently, the Queer Family Album.
Dylan Spencer-Davidson (he/they) is an artist, performer, and educator based in Berlin, DE. Their practice spans performance, workshops, video, sound, and writing, and continually orbits around the question of how to be together. Challenging normative, violent forms of relation, their works hold space for collective emotional processing while proposing alternative forms of communication and collaboration rooted in listening, consent, embodiment, difference, and vulnerability.
Joy Mariama Smith (1976, United States) is an installation and performance artist, activist, dramaturg, and architectural designer. A native Philadelphian currently based in Amsterdam, their work primarily addresses the conundrum of projected identities in various contexts. An ongoing question in their work is: What is the interplay between the body and its physical environment? They have a multi-modal improvisational practice spanning over 25 years. When teaching, they actively strive to uphold inclusive spaces.