Savitri Medhatul from Kali Billi Productions appears on stage before the full house of Sophiensaele’s Hochzeitssaal. “Namaste!”, she beams and the not-exclusively-white audience…[read on]
Interview by Louise Trueheart // June 25, 2019
The music you listen to when you’re around 13, I’ve heard it said, is wired in your brain in a way that no other music will ever be…[read on]
Interview by Ilyn Wong // May 31, 2019
For the Berliner Tanztage in March of this year, the performer Olympia Bukkakis presented ‘Gender Euphoria’, a performance-lecture-cabaret show that proposes drag as a way to experience not only a sense of euphoria…[read on]
May 28, 2019
The Berlin Performing Arts Festival, which began in 2016, is an annual week-long event celebrating the diversity of Berlin’s independent performing arts community…[read on]
Apr. 10, 2019
Making a Difference invites Berlin-based dance practitioners with physical and/or sensory disabilities to apply for their artistic Research Laboratory, led by contemporary Chicago-based artist Barak adé Soleil…[read on]
Openings & events at Kosmetiksalon Babette, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlinische Galerie, Haus am Lützowplatz, me Collectors Room, Sophiensaele, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,…[read on]
Article by Louise Trueheart // Apr. 17, 2018
Kareth Schaffer’s piece ‘Cassandra Has Turned 2’, which premieres at Sophiensaele on the 18th of April, dwells in the layers upon layers of worlds that blossom when prophets/performers are…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Feb. 14, 2018
Naoko Tanaka’s installation performance ‘Still Lives’ transformed Sophiensaele into a mystical landscape filled with creeping shadows and rotating spotlights. As if operating a great machine, Tanaka and her…[read on]
Openings & Events at Berlinische Galerie, Julia Stoschek Collection, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Collegium Hungaricum, Image Movement, Sprüth Magers, Schwarz Contemporary, Schinkel Pavillon, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Zilberman Gallery,…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Aug. 29, 2017
Entering the stripped-down space of the Sophiensaele theatre, the audience is immediately confronted with La Ribot’s nude figure, lounging lethargically in front of a circular mirror in the corner of the room…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Jul. 25, 2017
Next month, Berlin’s biggest contemporary dance festival Tanz Im August returns with a full programme of new works by international choreographers. For its 29th edition, the festival…[read on]
Openings at Berlinische Galerie, Milchof Studios, Haus am Waldsee, Institut für alles mögliche, Akademie der Künste, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Sophiensaele, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,…[read on]
