The Performing Arts Season 2023/24 takes place from 13 October 2023 to 8 March 2024.

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The inaugural season of seven works between October 2023 and March 2024 focused on contemporary artistic expressions of corporeality.In <a href="${link:{uuid:{1c715a9c-5427-437f-ad71-1ef2ca7d16ca},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/performing-arts-season/programm/2023/spielplan/put-your-heart-under-your-feet-and-walk}}}">“Put your heart under your feet… and walk!”</a> from 13 to 15 October, the South African choreographer, visual artist and performer&nbsp;Steven Cohen&nbsp;invited the public to engage in a dialogue with death. He conducted a ritual on stage in memory of his late partner, the dancer Elu Kieser, with whom he shared a relationship for over 20 years.From 19 to 21 October, Greek director and artist Dimitris Papaioannou&nbsp;presented his work to a Berlin audience for the first time. In <a href="${link:{uuid:{a701a2c5-abe7-43d8-956d-61cd380d4a92},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/performing-arts-season/programm/2023/spielplan/ink}}}">“INK”</a>, he used the genres of science fiction and horror to explore our mortality and the nightmares that lie dormant in our unconscious.The Canadian choreographer and dancer&nbsp;Dana Michel&nbsp;inhabits a nomadic world of objects that she fills with new meaning, far removed from binary and linear thinking and actions. In her installation performance <a href="${link:{uuid:{8942c769-8384-49e4-a870-a0508c84201c},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/performing-arts-season/programm/2023/spielplan/mike}}}">“MIKE”</a> at the Gropius Bau from 1 to 3 December, she humorously and sensitively questioned our way of life, culture of work and self-esteem in an open space that reflects her inner world.The inclusive Berlin-based&nbsp;RambaZamba Theater&nbsp;devised an immersive space together with the Argentinian visual artist&nbsp;Tomás Saraceno&nbsp;on four dates from 5 to 10 December where the ideas of presence and co-existence with one’s surroundings could be experienced. They performed the world premiere of the drama <a href="${link:{uuid:{48665693-7ffa-4d01-aebc-dfe5e512e1ab},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/performing-arts-season/programm/2023/spielplan/aerocircus}}}">“Aerocircus – eine circensische karnevaleske mit planwagen/ entgegen aller linearit&auml;ten”</a> specially written for them by the Austrian playwright&nbsp;Thomas K&ouml;ck.The French choreographer&nbsp;Rachid Ouramdane&nbsp;is interested in the body in states of exception and worked together with acrobats and mountaineers in his spectacular piece <a href="${link:{uuid:{440ddd19-30e8-46d9-8430-cc25f117543d},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/performing-arts-season/programm/2023/spielplan/corps-extremes}}}">“Corps extrêmes”</a>, which could be seen from 16 to 18 January.For the world premiere of <a href="${link:{uuid:{5d0b6cff-4fdc-4e68-9d39-264e932c37cd},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/performing-arts-season/programm/2023/spielplan/dies-ist-keine-botschaft}}}">“This Is Not an Embassy (Made in Taiwan)”</a> on 24 January, with additional performances on 26 and 27 January, the Swiss director&nbsp;Stefan Kaegi&nbsp;and the Berlin theatre label Rimini Protokoll were joined by people from Taiwan to investigate a fragile “in between” state – living in between two great powers and in an active volcanic zone where two continental plates meet.To complete the first Performing Arts Season on 7 and 8 March,&nbsp;Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch &amp; Terrain Boris Charmatz&nbsp;came with <a href="${link:{uuid:{dd32626e-cdf6-43df-840e-ac4c4f1750b4},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/performing-arts-season/programm/2023/spielplan/club-amour}}}">“Club Amour”</a> to Berlin. In order to demonstrate how corporeality and the history of the body has evolved within the group,&nbsp;Pina Bausch’s newly-revived masterpiece “Café M&uuml;ller” was presented along with “Aatt enen tionon” und “herses, duo” by&nbsp;Boris Charmatz, the company’s new Artistic Director.Even though each one of the invited productions stood alone, the works were linked by the manner in which each one examines new forms of corporeality in its own way. These are bodies that challenge political and physical boundaries and address conflicts. What do they tell us about the present?

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Every autumn and winter, the Berliner Festspiele present a Performing Arts Season that brings a panorama of international dance, theatre and performance productions to the stage of the Festspielhaus and the Gropius Bau.

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The second season, presented between October 2024 and January 2025, concentrated on memory and heritage in contemporary performing arts, with a focus on New York’s dance and performance scene.

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Performing Arts Season 2024: Überblick

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In a nationwide competition, 60 ensembles applied for this year’s Theatertreffen der Jugend. The eight award winners selected by the jury have now been selected. In spring, their productions will be shown at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

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Performing Exiles is an international and interdisciplinary festival produced by the Berliner Festspiele, that seeks to make diasporic lives in the city of Berlin visible and explore the contemporary meaning of exile. A preview of the programme has already been published. &nbsp;

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Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, is a festival of contemporary dance in Berlin. With three productions, it will once again be a guest at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele this year. The pre-sale of some programme highlights has already started.

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Eight selected concert highlights of Musikfest Berlin 2025 have already been published and are on sale. These include guest performances by the world’s best symphony orchestras and choirs from the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Italy, which are rarely heard in Berlin.

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60 ensembles from 13&nbsp;federal states have submitted their productions for the 46th&nbsp;Theatertreffen der Jugend 2025. The programme is now online and tickets are available.

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The 10 most remarkable productions of the season will be accompanied by a framing programme of contributions by alumni of the International Forum, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary.

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Performing Exiles is an international and interdisciplinary festival produced by the Berliner Festspiele, that seeks to make diasporic lives in the city of Berlin visible and explore the contemporary meaning of exile. The programme has already been published and tickets are available now.

Musikfest Berlin 2025 brings together guest performances by the world’s best symphony orchestras and choirs from the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Italy, which are rarely heard in Berlin. The full programme is online and tickets are available now.

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We would like to thank all artists, everyone involved and you, our audience, for a great Performing Arts Season 2024/25 full of moving moments! We are already in the midst of preparations for the next Season, which will present a new panorama of international dance, theatre and performance productions at Haus der Berliner Festspiele and the Gropius Bau from October 2025 to January 2026. Initial information on the programme will be available at the end of February.

Thanks for 2024/25 and Look Out for 2025/26

From October 2023, the Berliner Festspiele is to launch an annual Performing Arts Season that will present a panorama of international dance, theatre and performance productions on the stage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and the Gropius Bau through the autumn and winter months. Some of the works on display will be co-produced by the Berliner Festspiele or produced in Berlin. The Curator and Programme Director of the Berliner Festspiele’s Performing Arts Season is the dramaturg Yusuke Hashimoto.

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Texts and videos on artists and events of the Performing Arts Season, for example the recording of the lecture by choreographer and dancer Lucinda Childs, can be found in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library.

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Cultural pluralism is not a new phenomenon; it has long existed within peoples, nations and communities. Even in prehistoric times, humans moved in search of food, water and shelter. Their migration patterns were influenced by climate, resource availability and interactions, later driven by imperialism and economic ambitions. The resulting cohabitation and collective behaviours, along with the languages, gestures and cultural heritage shared and exchanged, have continually shaped people’s identities as well as nations and communities, not seldom at a devastating cost. While this multidimensional diversity and plurality of identities has always been a part of human history, contemporary global homogenisation now poses significant challenges to traditions, local languages and cultural heritage. This, in turn, leads many regions and countries to witness the resurgence of rigid, stereotypical and essentialist concepts of identity. Against the backdrop of these developments, the Performing Arts Season 2025/26 will bring together works that interrogate binaries and singular, unrelated identities, reflecting the interconnectedness of the world and the self in its totality – what Édouard Glissant termed the “Whole-World” (Tout-monde).Paraphrasing these conceptions of identity through the lens of the performing arts as an ephemeral phenomenon rooted in negotiation and relationships, this third Performing Arts Season edition presents a selection of dance, theatre and performance works that discard the idea of a majority-minority-society which often ascribes non-European artists to a certain minority status. The pieces created by Eun-Me Ahn, Gisèle Vienne and Étienne Bideau-Rey, William Kentridge, Akram Khan Company, Nina Laisné, François Chaignaud and Nadia Larcher, Thorsten Lensing and Ligia Lewis delve into themes such as the precarity of identity, displacement, creolisation and transnationality, highlighting the power of performance to navigate and articulate our shared yet diverse experiences.

“Who am I?” is a question as old as humanity itself, and one that has been repeated – sometimes philosophically, sometimes corporeally – across the world. Despite our complex, constantly changing realities and pluralistic societies, the belief in a consistent self nevertheless still holds a certain credibility and triggers political and social debates. This intangible and often troubling notion of “identity” serves as the starting point for the Performing Arts Season 2025/26.

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Since 2023, the Berliner Festspiele’s Performing Arts Season has been presenting a range of outstanding international dance, theatre and performance productions at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and Gropius Bau during the autumn and winter months. Some of the works shown are co-produced by the Berliner Festspiele or specially produced in Berlin.

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The works presented in the Performing Arts Season 2025/26 go beyond simple portrayals of identity, embracing its precarity and fluid, multifaceted and often contradictory nature. Through an exploration of connections and differences, they underscore not what divides us, but what unites us, both individually and collectively – strengthening once more the shared threads of our communal experience as well as the validity of the performing arts.

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The Performing Arts Season presents a panorama of international dance, theatre and performance productions on the stage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and the Gropius Bau through the autumn and winter months.

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Festivals & Programme Series

The Berliner Festspiele organise a range of festivals and art exhibitions, concerts, dance and theatre performances, readings, lectures, debates and much more throughout the year. These events are presented at a range of locations across Berlin but are concentrated primarily at their own two venues: the Gropius Bau and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

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The Performing Arts Season 2023/24 takes place from 13 October 2023 to 8 March 2024.

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You can listen to some of our events this year digitally in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library after the live concerts.&nbsp;In addition, On Demand offers from past years are available.

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The international Jazzfest Research Lab&nbsp;welcomes academics and students to take a critical look at the festival’s archive, its programmes, creators, musicians and – last but not least – its myths. In two seminars during the summer semester of 2024, students from the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Hildesheim have explored the festival’s history from various perspectives. In this film, the participants give a first look at how they dealt with their research subject.

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To mark its 60th anniversary, Jazzfest Berlin is celebrating the cultural diversity of the neighbouring district of Moabit in collaboration with around 35 official partners and initiatives and with over 350 participants of all ages.&nbsp;In June 2024, interviews were conducted with 20 partners who presented their perspectives, wishes and ideas for the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit. You can get a first impression with this film.

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Curated by&nbsp;Meron Mendel and Saba-Nur Cheema&nbsp;

From 13 to 16 June 2024, the interdisciplinary themed days “Reflexes &amp; Reflections” on the Israel-Palestine conflict and its consequences for society in Germany took place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. You can now find video and audio recordings of the discourse events in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library!

Reflexes &amp; Reflections. 7 October, the war in Gaza and the debate in Germany

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The 10 Remarkable Productions 2024

On 26 January, the Theatertreffen’s jury of critics announced their selection of 10 remarkable productions for the 2024 Theatertreffen at a press conference. Our congratulations go to the nominated production teams and all participants! The programme will be published on 5 April.

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“Radical Playgrounds”, an art parcours at the Gropius Bau, is spending eleven weeks exploring the differences between the concepts of play as competition and free play. Visitors are invited to walk and climb on the various installations and sculptures, to activate them and to shape the project collectively.

Summer School 2025

As part of Performing Exiles there will be a Summer School from 16 to 28&nbsp;June 2025. This will offer workshops, seminars and mentoring. The participants will see the performances and guest productions in the festival programme and visit artistic initiatives and cultural institutions in Berlin that operate across a wide range of disciplines and contexts. A public presentation of the participants’ current work and research at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele will complete the programme.

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The massacre, hostage-taking and rocket attacks by Hamas have shaken us deeply. The grue-some attack on Israel on 7&nbsp;October left us stunned and initially lost for words.

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With this letter of intent, we, the signing cultural organizations, express our intention to welcome, host and stage Ukrainian theatre artists in our venues, to make Ukrainian dramatic work visible to the European community.

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Performing Exiles is an international and interdisciplinary festival produced by the Berliner Festspiele, that seeks to make diasporic lives in the city of Berlin visible and explore the contemporary meaning of exile. The second edition of the festival will present both works by internationally acclaimed artists and those of artists who are still at the beginning of their careers.&nbsp;The complete programme is online, advance ticket sale is open.

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In August 2025, the festival Tanz im August will be a guest at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele with three productions. Two productions are already on pre-sale.

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The international literature festival berlin, or ilb for short, is considered one of the most important literary festivals in the world. The programme for the 25th&nbsp;ilb will take place from 11 to 20&nbsp;September 2025. The Young Programme will run from 15 to 24&nbsp;September 2025. The main venue is the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, with additional locations for the Young Programme including Theater an der Parkaue and the Gelbe Villa.

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<h3>Theatertreffen</h3><h4>2 to 20 May 2024</h4>The 10&nbsp;remarkable productions, selected by a jury of critics, were announced in a press conference on 26&nbsp;January 2024, 11:00. The programme will be published on 5&nbsp;April, advance ticket sales will start on 19&nbsp;April at 14:00

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The Berlinale as a guest at Haus der Berliner Festspiele

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