Program

Performances

©Alejandro Ramos / ig: @1805
XÊR
Choreography and Performance by Elvan Tekin with Collaborator Saemi Jeong
XÊR investigates the role of the voice in language, identity and the body. Viewing the body and language as dynamic processes in the construction of identity, XÊR explores a voice in a state of flux, seeking new realms of existence. The voice is perceived as an integral part of this flux, essential for redirecting and rebalancing the body. It encompasses spoken language, silence and the wider contexts of being heard, seen, understood or misunderstood.

Accessibility: The event lasts approximately 60 minutes and takes place in Studio 5, primarily in Kurdish. There are chairs to sit on, and possibly cushions in the front row.

Studio 5 is step-free, but has a raised wooden floor area that can be reached via a 1.5% inclined ramp. Wheelchair spaces are available. The barrier-free toilet is located in the studio foyer.

Content Note: This is a dance performance with sound. It is a duet, which means that two people will perform. There will be both singing and spoken language. The audience will sit around the performer. Some of the text will be spoken in Kurdish. There will be no translation as it is not necessary. The sound will be loud, with occasional increased volume. Medium bass frequencies, feedback and reverb will be used. At certain times the performance will take place in total darkness.

For further questions about the access requirements for this performance please contact: [email protected].

https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/barrierefreiheit#
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 5
27 Sept, 2024
19:00-20:00
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING
©Luis Alberto Rodriguez
INTERMISSION
Choreography and Performance by vAL
Accordion Example
we have arrived
at a well deserved breaking point
where logic can tilt to a bend….
where dreams can spill out, linger and perhaps mend…
where like minds can ravenously surrender…
into gathering
…to reevaluate how time has misbehaved and the necessity of an
interruption.
this is the intermission.

Accessibility: The event lasts approximately 60 minutes and will take place in Studio 5, primarily in English.

Beanbags will be available throughout the event for visitors with physical disabilities or limited mobility. Seating will be arranged along the walls, in addition there will be seat cushions on the floor.

Studio 5, has no steps but has a raised wooden floor area accessed via a 1.5% inclined dock ramp. Wheelchair spaces are available. The accessible toilet is located in the foyer of the studio.

Content Note: The performance will include a lot of spoken and pre-recorded text in English. There will be sound, but it will be quieter than at a concert. A lamp might flicker occasionally. The performance will be relaxed.

If you have any further questions about the access requirements for this performance, please contact: [email protected] . Further information on barrier-free access can be found on our website: https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/barrierefreiheit#
-vAL
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 5
28 Sept, 2024
20:30-21:30
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING
©Céline Rodrigues Monteiro
another space / memory
Choreography and Performance by femBlack Performance Collective
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Five performers, one mistress of ceremony in a central as a musical pulsating vein on a three-dimensional playground; many crawling ants and other flickering scraps of memories reflecting silvery black futures in Germany. What do our memories look like in the future? Which part Black futures inspire us tomorrow? With what tools do we dance our way into a future we want? How do cracks and ambivalences become overcomings of identity-driven inquiry and portals for the unknown? In the dance performance another space/memory, femBlackPerformance Collective interrogates memory as a machine-body that dances beyond itself, marking an unterwegs (on the way) where Black queer bodies are able to let go.

Research, Concept: @femblackperformancecollective
Choreography: Virginnia Ogechi Krämer @dreamingginni,Luana Naquin @luanamadikera , Isabel Kwarteng-Acheampong @_.who.dat._
Performance: Virginnia Ogechi Krämer, Luana Naquin, Isabel Kwarteng-Acheampong, Jasmin Eding
Sound: Lea Malaika Som
Voice: Aka Kelzz @akakelzz
Stage Design: Aminata Cisse @_maminata & Jan Robert von Raußendorf @young_lychee
Costume: Mariama Sow @frsow and Souleymane Mare @souleymandesign
Production Team: Ihisa Adelio, Antonia Böckle
Video: Mariama Sow @frsow and Govoi/A23 Studio House @govoi @a23studioss
Lightdesign: Elliot Blue @elliot.blue
Light technician: Thais Nepomuceno @_wewe_re

Content Note:
The performance lasts about 60 minutes and takes place in Studio 14. The ticketing will take place in the foyer in Studio 13. The text will be mainly in German, with some parts in French and English. The volume will be louder than usual, but not as loud as a concert, with occasional intense bass moments, though not overwhelming. You may experience shrill or sudden sounds at times, and while there won’t be any strobe lights, there will be some intense or sudden light changes. The space will not be completely dark during the performance and have video elements.
Please note that the storytelling includes subtle references to racist and sexist experiences. This is a relaxed performance. Please note that we kindly ask you to take off your shoes and leave them in a designated area after entering the space. For people with limited mobility, pre-boarding (formerly seated) is offered approximately 10 minutes before the beginning. There will be late seating possible for approximately 10 min after the start of the performance.
A limited number of bean bags are available during pre-boarding for visitors who need a different seating ,do to access needs.
Furthermore, we offer a pick-up service from one of the surrounding train stations (Tram/U-Osloer Straße, U-Pankstraße).

If you are interested in a beanbag or the pick-up service, please register by e-mail at [email protected] or by Telephone at +49 (0) 30 200 592 72
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 14
9 and 10 Oct, 2024
19:00-20:00
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING
©Robbie Sweeny / ig:@robbiesweeny
Whale Fall: abyss
Choreography and Performance by mayfield brooks with Cellist Dorothy Carlos and performer Camilo Restrepo
Accordion Example
Whale Fall is an ever evolving interdisciplinary work of film, installation and dance that was born from the sonic dissidence of Black grief. Do we give ourselves time to grieve? How can grief be decomposed and transformed? Whale Fall is a scientific term describing the process of a whale's decomposition after it dies and falls to the ocean floor while providing nutrients for thousands of sea creatures. For this project, the Whale Fall becomes the decomposed dance, the space of grief and regeneration, the lamentation, the ecstasy, the song and the sonic release.

10/12/2024 Audio Description + Haptic Access Tour
An audio description will be available for this performance. The Haptic Access Tours will take place one hour before the performance: 10/12 7:30 p.m. Duration: approx. 20 minutes.

Audio description + Haptic Access Tour by Monique Smith-McDowell Language: English

The performance lasts about 60 minutes and takes place in Studio 1 in English. Pre-boarding (early seating) is offered for people with mobility restrictions. There are no late seating options after the performance has started.

A limited number of beanbags are available for visitors with physical disabilities during pre-boarding. We also offer a pick-up service from one of the surrounding train stations (tram/U-Osloer Straße, U-Pankstraße).

If you are interested in the audio description, the Haptic Access Tour, a beanbag or the pick-up service, please register by email at [email protected] or by phone at +49 (0) 30 200 592 72
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 1
11 and 12 Oct, 2024
20:30-21:30
Audio Description by Monique Smith-McDowell and Naomi Sanfo-Ansorge 12 Oct, 2024; Everyone Welcome
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Workshops

©Tim Richards
Community Care: Politics and Practices of Rest, Touch, and Identity
Part 1: Shiatsu Workshop by Zem*u Huber with Rafia Shahnaz  
Part 2: Community Conversation facilitated by Nara Virgens and Makisig Akin with Camille Sapara Barton, Rafia Shahnaz, and Zem*u Huber
Accordion Example
We invite you to start with the body as the entry point for the launch of Emerging Change Tanzfestival. A Shiatsu workshop is offered by Zem*u Huber with Rafia for listening and tuning into the body through touch. This will be followed by a community conversation with dance artists, somatic practitioners, activists, and writers centered on the topic of strategies for rest, resilience, and care as activist practices for Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color communities in times of crisis. How can we collectively imagine and action body-based practices for thriving? How can these practices connect us (artists, audiences, curators, etc) more fully as a community within the art scene?

Please attend both the workshop and community conversation as a two-part event. Free and open to all. Pre-registration required.
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Radialsystem Studio 1, 2
21 Sept, 2024
17:00 - 20:00
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING
©Céline Rodrigues Monteiro
black future imaginings
Workshop by Virginnia Ogechi Krämer and Isabel Kwarteng-Acheampong as femBlack Performance Collective
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We would like to invite you to join us in imagining the future from Black perspectives and making it physically tangible. In a 3-hour workshop, accompanied by a time meditation, small writing exercises, exchanges and movement improvisations, we want to try out different methods of imagining with our bodies.

This workshop is for BIPoC folx only and will center Black queer perspectives.
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 4
28 Sept, 2024
15:00 - 18:00
BIPoC Only - Black-centered perspectives
FEATURING
©Robbie Sweeny / ig:@robbiesweeny
Decomposing (decolonizing) Somatics: decentering the human
Workshop by mayfield brooks
Accordion Example
What does it mean to decompose somatics? What interspecies interactions or relations can offer up different ways of understanding the body, environment, movement, voice and dance? Many Eurocentric modalities such as Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Laban, and Body Mind Centering, have been trademarked by Europeans and European Americans. How can we begin to develop somatics practices that speak to our own bodies and experiences, from different cultural locations other than Europe that center the global majority? How can we continually tap into humor and play to also access our somatic selves? Inspired by my practice of Improvising While Black, I will share some of my own journey in the world of mainstream somatics and how it has shifted and decomposed over time through a decolonial lens.

This workshop is for BIPoC folx only.
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 5
30 Sept, 2024
17:00-20:00
BIPoC Only
FEATURING
©Nir Arieli / ig:@nirarieli
The Body is a Shoreline
Workshop with mayfield brooks
Accordion Example
My body is a shoreline
This workshop is also an invitation to decompose like the whale fall--a whale's decomposition after it dies and falls to the ocean floor. How can practices of decomposing, falling, and surrendering to currents & tides fuel more opportunities to ride the waves of spontaneous movement creation? What is my body’s shoreline like? How can different ecologies of cellular integration emerge through voice, sound and movement? What does surrendering to a moment, an impulse, an interspecies relation, a resistance practice, or transgression look like? Other questions that may arise are; How can I create dance offerings of solidarity to other shorelines and dance for and with liberation struggles throughout the world? In this process an interspecies, relational ancestral connection may emerge. May we find rest and play at the shoreline.
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 5
4 Oct, 202
17:00 - 20:00
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING
©Amanda Tipton
Post-Failure Potentials
Workshop with Makisig Akin & Anya Cloud/The Love Makers Company
Accordion Example
Through our ongoing dance research of queer love centered survival practices this workshop asks: What if embodied queerness can be an ally and a visionary strategy for racial justice work? What can we do together that we cannot do alone? What if inviting otherness/queerness can give us the space necessary to find, decide, construct, destroy, reinvent, and take-on expanding ways of being and inhabiting the multiplicity of you, me, and we? What is possible when love is stronger than fear? We will practice taking care as we traverse the complex realities of being racialized and gendered bodies in relationship with one another. This will be a queer, trans, and BIPoC centered space. Through our intersectional identities, we will draw on practices of the basic fundamentals of Traditional Northern Style Kung Fu Chinese Martial Arts, contact improvisation, improvisation, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Feldenkrais®, dance making, activism and how these ideologies can be implemented in our dancing bodies. This research material also includes building skills and practices of agency, consent, touch, positionality, generosity, endurance, risk-taking, decision-making, and collaboration. We will develop our individual and collective capacity through dancing and verbal discussion. Let’s deeply sensitize and activate our dancing capacities as humans from many different orientations. Let’s keep finding strategies to be softly hardcore. We will DANCE.
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 5
5 Oct, 2024
17:00 - 20:00
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING
©Olesya Fedulova
The Rest Bath
Workshop by Isabelle Dikumbi
Accordion Example
Inspired by Audre Lorde, Tricia Hersey, Tracee Stanley and many more, Isabelle Dikumbi has created „The Rest Bath.“ THE REST BATH is a workshop to let yourself be soothed by slowness and ease. You will receive impulses and inspiration for creating your own rest practices as we indulge in breathing, soft movement, visualization, journaling and collective dreaming. Use this workshop to integrate & reflect the experiences you made during the festival and to let them transform you. Together we will envision a new future letting our dreams be our resistance. Soften so you can listen to your wisdom within. Rest is Resistance. Rest is Revolution. What to expect: Breathwork, gentle movements, Visualization, journaling, sound spheres being in community. What to bring: Soft clothing, warm covers (socks, pullover), a journaling book, water bottle. Something to put on the altar if you want.
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 5
19 Oct, 2024
14:00-17:00
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING

Residencies

@ yako.one!
Djaam leeli
Residency Showing with Djibril Sall

followed by an Artist Talk moderated by Nara Virgens and Makisig Akin
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This project will deal with discourses on climate change and migration to Europe. It asks what relationship we have to the land and environment we live in and how it affects our society. It further asks what happens when this land changes and is no longer able to support human settlement.
The project looks at the possibility that there could be climate refugees in the next 10-20 years and assumes that this movement is already underway as we see footage of refugees making perilous journeys across the Mediterranean to reach wealthier countries.
This project is unique in its perspective because it brings a socio-cultural lens to this conversation by connecting it to indigenous performance practices that are themselves being transformed by the pressures of globalization and the market economy.
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 5
11 Oct, 2024
18:00–19:00
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING
©Mustafa Gasmelbari
Forbidden bodies rise and fall
Residency Showing with ShahrZad
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Forbidden bodies, rise and fall
Join us for Zaar, a unique ritual dedicated to exploring grief in a shared space. In this experience, there is no audience—only participants engaged in a transformative journey. Following an introduction to the research behind Zaar, we will create sound together using percussion and our voices, moving through the space as one. Drawing inspiration from ancient rituals spanning East and North Africa to Central Asia, I will share body movement techniques that honor these traditions while adapting them for modern expression.

This sacred space is exclusively for BIPOC individuals, allowing us to embrace moments of healing. Please note that the performance will include intense scents from incense, moments of darkness and note that this experience is intended for adults. For the comfort and focus of all participants, we kindly ask that animals are not brought to the performance.

Let’s honor our collective grief and emerge renewed.
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Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios Studio 5
17 Oct, 2024
19:00 - 20:30
BIPoC Only
FEATURING

Conversations

Part 1: Shiatsu Workshop by Zem*u Huber with Rafia Shahnaz  
Part 2: Community Conversation facilitated by Nara Virgens and Makisig Akin with Camille Sapara Barton, Rafia Shahnaz, and Zem*u Huber
Accordion Example
We invite you to start with the body as the entry point for the launch of Emerging Change Tanzfestival. A Shiatsu workshop is offered by Zem*u Huber with Rafia for listening and tuning into the body through touch. This will be followed by a community conversation with dance artists, somatic practitioners, activists, and writers centered on the topic of strategies for rest, resilience, and care as activist practices for Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color communities in times of crisis. How can we collectively imagine and action body-based practices for thriving? How can these practices connect us (artists, audiences, curators, etc) more fully as a community within the art scene?

Please attend both the workshop and community conversation as a two-part event. Free and open to all. Pre-registration required.
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Radialsystem Studio 1, 2
21 September, 2024
17:00 - 20:00
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING
Community Care: Politics and Practices of Rest, Touch, and Identity
©emergentspaces
Solidarity Space Community Conversation
Facilitated by  emergentspaces with Magda El Sayed, Jala Salti, Shahd Katba
Accordion Example
Emerging Change Tanzfestival holds a community dialogue, facilitated by emergentspaces, with artists and activists that reflects on the importance of solidarity within the realm of dance and the art world at large. We will start with unpacking the importance of why Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC)-centered spaces are important followed by critical conversations about building intersectional communities through solidarity practices. How can solidarity create more equity and move forward into transformation in the context of increasingly polarized politics? Free and open to all. Pre-registration required.
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GLADT e.V. Saal
22 Sept, 2024
17:00-20:00
Everyone Welcome
FEATURING

Celebration

Celebration
with DJ Rafush
Location TBC
12.October, 2024
21:30-23:00
(directly after mayfield’s performance) Everyone Welcome
FEATURING