The evening focuses on (violent) family dynamics. The performance “Rice with Tomato” deals with the topic of suicide.

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

• 120 minutes in total with several breaks
• Fam Jam (Kantine): 30 minutes
  Rice with Tomato (Hochzeitssaal): 30 minutes

Language

• English spoken language
• in the Hochzeitsaal the voice over text is projected to a wall

Lighting

• The lighting in the hall is bright enough at all times to find your way around.
• There are both brighter and darker moments and slow changes in lighting.

Sound

• Kantine: The music varies in volume, speed, and intensity; sometimes it is harmonious, sometimes dissonant.
• Hochzeitssaal: There are moments of complete silence as well as moments with background music and sounds.

Smell

• The Kantine smells of food.

Other

• The event begins in the Kantine. The audience is accompanied to the Hochzeitssaal during the course of the evening.
• An Access Friend is present and available during the event.
• Food (lentil soup and bread) and tea are distributed in the cafeteria. Food and drinks may not be taken out of the cafeteria.
• Large colorful fabric panels are hung in the Kantine, onto which images are projected in three places. The speed of the projections follows the rhythm of the music—sometimes they remain longer, sometimes they change faster.
• Stage fog is used 

Audience

Kantine

• Various seating and reclining options: grandstands with carpets and seat cushions, beanbags, chairs with backrests, beer benches.
• The audience can move freely around the room.
• Two wheelchair spaces can be booked subject to availability.

Hochzeitssaal

• Two grandstands on the sides with seat cushions.
• 2 beanbag seats available upon request
• 2 wheelchair spaces available upon request

Interaction

• In the Hochzeitssaal, members of the audience are invited to draw a note from a pot and give it to the performers. Participation is always voluntary.
• In the Kantine, the audience is invited to participate in a dance choreography at the end of the performance. Participation is voluntary.

Relaxed Performance

• All performances take place as Relaxed Performances.
• The podcast listening area in the Kantine can also be used as a quit space. Beanbags, blankets, headphones and stimming toys are provided there.

Early boarding

• There will be a long, relaxed admission period. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m.

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: Katie Lee Dunbar, KAy Garnellen, Juliana Piquero, Yvonne Sembene, Joy Mariama Smith, Dylan Spencer-Davidson
Costumes, stage: Hagar Ophir with Antonia Eckardt
Costumes Fam Jam: Derek Di Fabio
Dramaturgy assistance: Maya Weinberg
Technical Director, light design: Catalina Fernandez
Technical assistance: Stevie Gunter
Light design: Shun Perrotta
Sound tech: Lena Marcus
Press, marketing, social media: Apricot Productions – Angela Fegers
Production, marketing assistance: Apricot Productions – Nadine Freisleben
Food: Promona Sengupta and Talya Lubinsky of Bad Apples Catering
Accessibility, access friend: Miles Wendt
Host: KAy Garnellen
Concept, initiating artist, dramaturgy: Katie Lee Dunbar 

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.

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.