Performances
100° Diaspora
Three-day stage marathon (1/3)
Performing Exiles 2025
“100° Diaspora“ is designed as a festival within a festival and aims to show the wide range of Berlin’s diasporic artistic scene. The stage marathon will be held as part of Performing Exiles over three days on five stages in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. 45 artists and groups from the performing arts who are based in Berlin and identify as diasporic are invited to take part. The format is not curated in terms of content, instead it will present the first 45 applications in response to the open call on a first come, first served basis, provided proposals can be realised. In this way, the programme offers artists who are less established or at the beginning of their career an opportunity to present their work and network. “100° Diaspora“ is complemented by an additional programme which was developed together with the Goethe-Institut in Exile.
Programme
18:00
Jere Ikongio, Yemi Osokoya, Ambrose Tjark
Shadows
Dance, 30 min, English
Main Stage
“Shadows” is a performance with dance, sound art, fashion and interactive video installation, exploring consumerism and class struggle, Afro urban culture and contemporary experience.
Jere Ikongio – Performance, Technique | Yemi Osokoya – Movement, Film | Ambrose Idemudia – Movement, Styling | Taiwo Ojudun– Performance, Dance
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Theemetra Harizani
Spells for Beginners: Summoning a Ghost Database
Participatory Performative Lecture, 50 min, English
Upper Foyer
☕ A Participatory Performative Lecture that re-approaches ceremonies as an
inherited social technology capable of unlocking poetic interpretation and expression.
The Case Study: Coffee Cup Readings. ☕
By and with Theemetra Harizani
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Sabrina Selensky
Nice to meet you bongi
Performance, 50 min, English
Garden
Bongi Perez, a hustler who rejects traditional femininity and mocks societal norms around sex and gender, is the protagonist of Valerie Solanas’s 1967 play “Up Your Ass”. The play blends Bongi's life into a contemporary Berlin setting staged in her bedroom.
Sabrina Selensky – Dramaturgy, Choreography, Performance | Ailin Formia – Performance | Philisha Kraatz – Performance | Misha – Music
19:00
Alexander Carrillo
HUMAN INTERMITTENT: A Journey
Movement Theatre, 50 min, multilingual
Back Stage
This work abstracts ‘intimacy and privacy’ to public spaces. Reflecting past facets of the performer’s private life in sex, drugs and self-abuse. It recreates different perspectives, life moments, situations of human beings in political and, social processes and emotional states.
Alexander Carrillo – Choreographer, Performer | Maddi Fuente Ubani – Assistant
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Valeria Oviedo Garcia
Los Malos Hábitos
Performance, 35 min, without language
Side Stage
“Los Malos Hábitos” (The Bad Habits) explores the female archetype in Latin American folklore and mythology through the fusion of dance, ceremony, wearable art and soundscapes. A performative fable that deals with this demigoddess’ suit that shrinks and tightens threatening to leave her breathless.
Valeria Oviedo – Artistic Director | Valeria Oviedo, Eva Robayo – Performance, Co-creation | Paula Lancaster – Costume Design | Aloe – Music Composer | Cristina Bucardo – Guest Collaborator | Valeria Oviedo – Lighting Designer | Melissa Herrada – Producer | Maria Ignacia Navarro – Production Assistant | Alejandro Ramos – Photographer
20:00
Inversau
Try to mute it
Sound Art, 45 min, without language
Main Stage
“Try to mute it” explores the muting of sound emitting bodies in a performative and sculptural manner. Within a constellation of scenic elements, improvisation with the body, sound and storytelling is catalysed to create a narrative of muting.
Santiago Jiménez Ramírez – Concept, Performance, Scenography | Jackie Blümel – Assistant
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Rebel-ist-Hah
Scramble for Earth
Lecture Performance, 50 min, multilingual
Upper Foyer
Can enforced disappearance provoke visibility? This lecture performance weaves letters, memories, and research into a shared act of narrating the story of Iranian climate activists and asking: can narration become a collective act of witnessing?
With Azadeh Ganjeh
Azadeh Ganjeh, Foad Esfahani – Idea, Concept | Ali Poorahmadian – Director of Photography, Video Installation, Technique
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Payasa Sagrada
Part 2: Lejanía
Performance, 30 min, multilingual
Garden
Today I went for a walk and I sang: “Ay, me da, qué tristeza que me da, me da la lejanía. Qué tristeza que me da, estar tan lejos de la tierra mía.“ (Oh, what sadness the distance brings me. What sadness I feel to be so far away from my land.)
Dana Graham-Sanchez – Performance, Idea | Joaquin Flores Valdes – Music Producer, Idea | Hannah Flittig Aardalen – Outside Eye, Idea
21:00
Jemima Foxtrot & Maja Zagórska
Pleasure Incorporated
Spoken Theatre, 60 min, English
Back Stage
What if sex work was just a regular office job? “Pleasure Incorporated” is a lyrical one-woman show blending live performance and video art, exploring Jemima’s experience of escorting in Berlin, her motivations and how it affects her life.
Jemima Foxtrot – Writer, Performer | Lucy Allan – Co-Devisor, Director | Maja Zagórska – Stage and Video Design | Joe Ackroyd – Composition | Bernhard Hollinger – Sound Design
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Rodrigo Zorzanelli
multiple memberships
Performance, 55 min, German
Side Stage
In a solo with a Polaroid camera, Rodrigo Zorzanelli stages performative self-portraits based on personal experiences of citizenship acquisition and coming out as non-binary. The photos mask, shine, disturb the space and the body.
Rodrigo Zorzanelli – Concept, Text, Performance, Producer | Andreina Vieira dos Santos – Costume and Set Design | Raquel Rosildete – Lighting Design und Technical Direction | Tom Foskett-Barnes – Music und Sound Design | Guilherme Morais – Outside Eye | María F. Giacaman – Dramaturgical Advice | To Doan – Text Consultation
22:00
Lide Martínez, Maria Eugenia Blanco, Ioulia Stepanova
Aitona
Spoken Theatre, 45 min, English
Main Stage
“Aitona” [from Basque: grandfather] is a poetic tribute born from grief, blending video and live performance to explore absence and memory. Through the lens of death, it becomes a celebration of life — asking the enduring question: what is our legacy?
Lide Martínez Abáigar – Actress, Text, Production | Maria Eugenia Blanco – Director | Ioulia Stepanova – Embodied Dramaturgy | Gloria Madas – Movement Assistant
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Gina Lo, Anton Filatov
Sonic Sauna
Performance, 45 min, multilingual
Upper Foyer
The live performance “Sonic Sauna” is a vessel of stillness, where layers of light, sound, and texture weave through a space that breathes and shifts, blurring the boundaries between self, nature, and the unseen.
By and with Gina Lo, Anton Filatov
23:00
Giada Grieco & ASERET
WHAT IF LIVING WAS JUST KILLING TIME
Dance, 30 min, without language
Back Stage
The piece comes from a deep sense of emptiness and fullness. It is a reflection about time, cultural identification and self-awareness.
As an artist, I choose to dance on this unchangeable imaginary time-line. There is no sense in what we do, unless it has a meaning for us.
Giada Grieco – Dance Performer | ASERET – Sound Performer
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Kristina Kusmina Dreit
steel
Performance, 45 min, English
Side Stage
The starting point for “steel” is the material itself and its hypermasculine connotations. Inspired by research in decommissioned and operational steel factories, feminist archives, metal workshops and online search engines an atmospheric performance unfolds.
Kristina Kusmina Dreit – Concept, Artistic Direction, Choreography | Julia Müllner, Camilla Schielin – Performance, Choreography | Yi-Ju Chou – Scenography | Isabel Gatzke – Dramaturgical Accompaniment | Merle Wurl – Production | Anna Froelicher – Support Sound
Supported by ada Studio for contemporary dance at Uferstudios and Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
00:00
Midnight Talk with Reflections, Discussions, and Reviews following 100° Diaspora.
In Co-operation with Goethe-Institut im Exil