Teresa Vittucci: SANE SATAN – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Teresa Vittucci:
SANE SATAN

SANE SATAN
English
10€/15€/20€/25€
With SANE SATAN, Austrian performance artist Teresa Vittucci returns to Sophiensæle for the fifth time and dedicates herself in a humorous way to probably the most dazzling figure in our cultural history: the Devil.
Satan is taboo. The fallen angel is the symbol of evil par excellence. But who decides, who or what is considered evil? Seductive, monstrous, and trapped in the prevailing structures: Satan has the potential to be an accomplice for all those who are devalued, excluded, and oppressed because of their otherness. In the third and final part of the IN PRAISE OF VULNERABILITY trilogy, Teresa Vittucci examines the stories and images that warn us so vehemently about the devil and searches for a new, queer-feminist reading of this gender and morally ambiguous figure.
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
- 80 minutes without break
Language
- Englisch spoken language
Light
- Strobe light is used.
- The light atmosphere is rather dark
- There are very sudden light changes
Sound
- The basic mood of the piece is rather quiet.
- There are a few loud passages.
- There are choking noises.
Other
- There is a video projection.
- Stage fog is used.
Audience Area
- Seated grandstand
- 2 beanbag seats bookable according to availability
- 2 wheelchair seats bookable according to availability
Early Boarding
- Early boarding. is possible. A loudspeaker announcement draws attention to this.
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.
Conception, direction, text: Teresa Vittucci
Performance: Alina Arshi, Teresa Vittucci
Dramaturgy, text, video: Benjamin Egger
Text assistance: Melanie Jame Wolf
Dramaturgical support: Lea Moro
Stage, light design: Anna Wohlgemuth
Light design, technical direction: Anahí Pérez
Choreographic and material assistance: Emma Bertuchoz, Emmeliin Chemouny
Inventor: Gabriel Schneider
Music: Gil Schneider
Tailor: David Lammstrand
Partially developed with and special thanks to: Henry Browne and Deborah Macauley
Production management: Diana Paiva / high expectations
Diffusion: Jérôme Pique
Administration: Karin Erdmann
A production by OH DEAR! Zürich, co-produced by Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Center Lausanne, Tanzhaus Zürich, Charleroi danse DCCN, La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Théâtre Saint-Gervais Genève, Dampfzentrale Bern. Co-production in residency O Espaço do Tempo, La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, supported by the French ministry of Culture / DRAC IDF. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Teresa Vittucci is a Vienna born artist who is currently based in Zurich. Her practice is rooted in the field of contemporary dance performance and investigates feminist and queer perspectives on pop culture, history, and religion. Bad jokes are always part of the process. She works as a solo artist and also collaborates with other artists including Colin Self, Annina Machaz, Simone Aughterlony, Nils A. Lange, Melanie Jame Wolf, Michael Turinsky and Claire Vivianne Sobottke. In 2019 Teresa received the Swiss Dance Prize for the first part of her trilogy HATE, ME TENDER. She was Young Associate Artist at Tanzhaus Zürich in 2019-2022. Currently she is busy with touring and working on the completion of her trilogy, next several projects as well as guest teaching at the Art Universities of Zurich and Berne.
Alina Arshi was born in Lucknow, India. She did some of her growing up there, and some of it in Muscat, Oman. This opened her up to a variety of cultural inputs right from the beginning. In 2015 she moved to Brussels, Belgium, from where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in business administration at KU Leuven. It was in this city that she discovered the professional dance world and began her training at Tictac Art Center. Here, during a year and a half she let herself be absorbed by the visions, practices, and techniques of artists such as David Zambrano, Mat Voorter, Martin Kilvady, among many more.
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© Benjamin Egger