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

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<h3>With</h3>Merche Blasco, Christian Kesten, Felicity Mangan, Alex Nowitz, Ute Wasserman<h3>Project-development </h3>Pooja Das &ndash; co-researcher &amp; co-writer (publication) Tim Rutherford Johnson &ndash; publication editor Priyanka Tagore &ndash; haiku editor Shikha Usgaonker &ndash; graphic desig Subhadeep Biswas &ndash; engineer Matt Gingold &ndash; Pianola code

Nandita Kumar&rsquo;s installation at daadgalerie is playfully reminiscent of a newspaper-press, stuck in an eternal loop. The work comments on the constant regurgitation of misinformed and manipulative facts by individuals and organizations as they influence public opinion to protect their own interests: a reminder to listen closely to the echoes of history and avoid mindlessly replaying the discordant notes of the past.

As the challenges and environmental consequences of climate change are manifested, Nandita Kumar reflects on the knowledge gap between the scientific community, political spheres, and the populace at large. While fake news has plagued climate and environmental science for decades, slowing or completely derailing &ldquo;progress,&rdquo; information overload, complexity, and lack of meaning has left people feeling anxious and powerless to enact real environmental change. Kumar&rsquo;s work deconstructs political rhetoric related to various environmental issues by collating statements made by influential individuals, politicians, and organizations. Employing the very methods of data manipulation and fake news, the statements were transformed by an algorithmic &ldquo;haiku&rdquo; generator in order to produce a poem to accompany each of the untrue statements. Forming a glitching musical code, the resulting ninety-one haikus play out through a forty-foot pianola score. The accompanying digital publication allows the viewer to connect each of the poems to its original statement, alongside expanded essays detailing the truth behind these falsehoods.The sound installation has been collaboratively developed during Kumar&rsquo;s DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program residency and comprises five sonic journeys representing the elements &ndash; earth, water, fire, air, and void &ndash; and will culminate in a performance that includes voicing the haikus alongside the pianola player, a collage of found sound and live foley with refuse and recycled objects.&ldquo;History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme&rdquo; &ndash; Mark Twain

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Highlights of MaerzMusik 2023

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Nandita Kumar: From Paradigm to Paradigm, Into the Biomic Time

Lakbayan is a &ldquo;protest tactic, an organizing tool, propaganda machinery and a lobby mechanism.&rdquo; (Mong Palatino) This involves the mobilization of mass organizations of peasants, indigenous peoples and other sectors of Philippine society across the country to march to the capital and present their demands to the national government. Inspired by this tradition, Dang A Dang Radio will present a collection of protest music and sonic expressions of dissent from the Philippines. Through a sampling of the archive through &ldquo;listening stations&rdquo; with audio recordings, text and visual materials, it will highlight the country&rsquo;s history and tradition of protest.

In a Lakbayan, masses of organized peasants, indigenous peoples and agricultural workers travel from the peripheries to the capital to present their demands to the national government. It highlights the displacement of indigenous peoples by domestic and foreign plunderers, issues of food security and local struggles, the call for the resumption of peace talks and the militarization and attacks of rural communities. It counters and brings to the fore the government&rsquo;s callous attitude towards these issues. A month-long march and sea crossing brings the rural struggle closer to new ties with other communities where the movement may be weak, to potential new allies and supporters that can provide &ldquo;information, supplies and logistics&rdquo;. The camp-outs in the city become spaces for education, receiving material support, and &ldquo;staging ground&rdquo; for political action. Inspired by this tradition, Dang A Dang Radio will present Lakbayan: voices of resistance from the Philippines, a collection of protest music and sonic expressions of dissent in the Philippines. Through a sampling of the archive through &ldquo;listening stations&rdquo; with audio recordings, text and visual materials, it will highlight the country&rsquo;s history and tradition of protest. The exhibition will present an inter-generational selection of sounds from the classics of the First Quarter Storm movement to the current generation of activists and musicians, accompanied by background information and context through materials like songbooks, liner notes, posters, and photographs from the collection of Dang A Dang Radio, and other progressive organizations. Drawing from the spirit of the Lakbayan, the exhibition will &ldquo;transport&rdquo; the stories of struggle from the peripheries, not as an appeal for mercy, but in a call for solidarity. The exhibition will map the themes and sectors represented in the archive and how they are reflected in the music and other audio materials featured. It hopes to show not just worsening conditions and oppression, but also the sound of movements gaining strength and building political power.

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Leil Zahra Mortada &ndash; Co-​Curator 
Sophie Emilie Beha &ndash; Editorila &amp; Dramaturgy 
Sonia Lesc&egrave;ne, Ina Steffan, Stella Wegmann, Ivana Wirtz, Franziska Hempel &ndash; Organisation &amp; Production 
D_P_S (Gon&ccedil;alo Reynolds, Diogo Passarinho) &ndash; Spatial Installation &amp; Conception 
Bert G&uuml;nther &ndash; Production 
Kamila Metwaly, Sonia Lesc&egrave;ne &ndash; Conception &amp; Text

The &ldquo;Library of MaerzMusik&rdquo; is a new space/time for open exchange and personal study, to which the festival invites visitors daily from 14:00 with free admission. In this modular library in the Festspielhaus, artists and the public meet in interactive formats, lectures and artistic interventions.

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Key Visual Performing Arts Season 2023

A panorama of international dance, theatre and performance productions

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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&rsquo;s Performing Arts Season is the dramaturg Yusuke Hashimoto.

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Ether&rsquo;s Bloom marks the first part of the Programme on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Gropius Bau. Taking place both online and offline, the programme focuses on the utopian and poetic possibilities of AI and shows works by Elisa Giardina Papa and Mimi Ọnụọha.

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The artist group General Idea challenged the art world and society at large. Often through humour and satire, they adressed various aspects of consumer culture and social inequalities. On 22 September, the Gropius Bau opens the most comprehensive retrospective on the trio ever produced.

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From 11 November, the Gropius Bau is showing her0, a presentation by visual artist Selma Selman. Revolving around desire and self-determination, her practice dissects the boundaries and borders of identity, value creation, law and representation.

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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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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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Janine Jembere, Untitled (aus der Serie Residence Time), 2013.

In Between Frequencies

Soundshapes &ndash; In Between Frequencies activates the two entrances of the Gropius Bau with sound works by Kapwani Kiwanga and Janine Jembere, creating an acoustic connection between the central entrance portal and the step-free entrance. Drawing from the potential of porosity, this architectural intervention challenges the monumentality and statics of the building.

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How Love Moves: Prelude

During Pallavi Paul&rsquo;s time as Artist in Residence 2023, the Gropius Bau presents a prelude to her upcoming solo exhibition in 2024. In How Love Moves: Prelude, a scenography around the three-channel video installation Cynthia Ke Sapne / The Dreams of Cynthia (2017) transforms the historic Schliemannsaal into a twilight space between wakefulness and sleep.

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A Programme on Artificial Intelligence

Ether&rsquo;s Bloom marks the first part of the Gropius Bau&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="${link:{uuid:{2530681e-98b4-46ea-b69b-4b9033b0a33e},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2023/ausstellungen/kuenstliche-intelligenz}}}">Programme on Artificial Intelligence</a>, which focuses on the utopian and poetic possibilities of AI. As part of Ether&rsquo;s Bloom, works by the artists Elisa Giardina Papa and Mimi Ọnụọha are showcased in freely accessible spaces of the Gropius Bau and here on our website.

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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.

The Berliner Festspiele on Current Events in Israel, Gaza and Germany

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.

Support of the Ukrainian Cultural Scene

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<h3>Sustainable Environmental Performance</h3>

We have been following EMAS guidelines for sustainable environmental performance since 2013. Find out more about our goals and the measures that we have already taken on the website of our umbrella organisation.

All year round, Berliner Festspiele host a multitude of festivals, exhibitions and individual events in two houses &ndash; the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at Schaperstra&szlig;e and the Gropius Bau near Potsdamer Platz &ndash; and other venues in the city.

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As part of <a href="${link:{uuid:{011b1681-384d-474e-9a61-d141e76ef7ba},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2023/ausstellungen/kuenstliche-intelligenz/veranstaltungen/ethers-bloom}}}">Ether&rsquo;s Bloom: A Programme on Artificial Intelligence</a>, Elisa Giardina Papa&rsquo;s video series Labor of Sleep, Have you been able to change your habits?? takes over Gropius Bau&rsquo;s website every day at sunrise and sunset.