Program 2022

Hear & Now* | Danced Jazztunes is a performance by dancer Naïma Mazić, musician Golnar Shahyar and a record player.

Where are we going? You never know. No? But we are here. Now. Forever? Never.
A double bass player and a dancer meet in an empty space and play with the potential of this encounter.

In their improvisation Joséphine Auffray and Ulrike Brand explore the possibilities of expansion: time, space, body, surface.

One day, I learned from a photo that my Grandma had been a military nurse in Japan during World War II. “Please Cry” is inspired by the stories of nurses, who were made to believe that it was shameful and unpatriotic to cry in the face of the horrors of war.

Voices that drift in waves, condensing and interacting with each other to create images and movement. We no longer just hear a sound, as sounds immediately set a mood as these voices grow into an image that emerges from our perception.

Displaced. Exiled. Transplanted. And yet always in the process of planting new roots. This is the basic ambivalence in the lives of many migrants. Maria Colusi, an Argentinian in Berlin, knows it all too well.

Through intimacy, sensitivity, and kinaesthetic empathy, Consolation explores how a body consoles another body. Delving into the experience of shared sensitization, two bodies sway, rock, hold, and carry each other as a driving force for movement.