100° Diaspora

Programme

17:00

Leela Tinelli & Laura Stokes
On the Edge
Circus, 30min, English
Back Stage

With the creation, Leela Tinelli and Laura Stokes drawing on the alchemists’ concept of transforming lead into gold and, explore the idea that imperfections are essential gifts for living beings. They want to look at their weakness from a new perspective and ask can they just be valuable. 

By and with Laura Stokes, Leela Tinelli

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Karina Suárez Bosche / Kompanie tanzfähig
Herzen. ZWISCHEN. Vulkanen
Performance, 45min, without language
Side Stage

The inclusive dance piece about the pulse of life, about its coming and passing, reveals the origin we all share whatever our differences. Together we are all one single organism that is connected to the earth and the universe. 

Karina Suárez Bosche – Choreography | Gabor Gsongradi – Music | Carolina Jannasch, Michelle Jimenez Lora, Leopold Menzel, Martin Seidler, Leonie Stepp, Laura Waltz – Performance | Thais Nepomuceno Veiga – Lighting Design | Zera Insun Hwang – Costume Design | Bernhard Richarz – Production
 

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18:00

Ore Ama Collective
Homes & Songs
Performance, 50min, multilingual
Main Stage

Move. Inhabit. Let yourself go. Own. Occupy. Find! A poetic journey in which language, movement and music intertwine. The piece explores the complex experience of living between worlds as a migrant woman and questions the meaning of identity and home.  

Ore Ama Collective – Concept, Text, Directing | Maddi Fuente Ubani, Ana Kavalis – Performance | Neslihan Schmidt – Music 

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Dessa Ganda, Julia Kratz
Crossed Gazes
Movement Theatre, 60min, multilingual
Upper Foyer

In “Crossed Gazes”, Dessa and Julia collide in memories of childhood and youth in postcolonial West Africa – told from Black and white perspectives. Where the personal turns political, an unmasking image of African-European entanglement emerges. 

By and with Dessa Ganda, Julia Kratz

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Hendrik Arns, Mia Jacob
fall4me
Performance, 35min, German
Garden

“fall4me” takes Hendrik Arns’s endurance poem “die4me” (Passagen Verlag, 2024) as its graphic score to examine falling as an act of hope; language and movement are the tools used in a collective retelling in the (post queer) debate about healing.  

Hendrik Arns – Concept and Text | Hendrik Arns, Mia Jacob – Choreography, Performance

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19:00

Melissa Herrada
Immensity
Dance, 40 min, without language
Back Stage

“Immensity” inhabits uncertainty as a poetic and political territory: the choreographic work places a body in relation to the border. “Immensity” is a haptic strategy, a moment and a manifesto. 

Melissa Herrada* – Choreography and Director
Shantí Vera – Co-choreography and Performance
Jésica Elizondo** – Light Dramaturgy
Sohui Jeong – Music Composition
Arturo Lugo – Costume and Stage Design
Alejandro Ramos, Fernando Frías und Paulina Cervantes – Video and Photo
Valeria Oviedo – Production 
Andrea Carillo – Graphic Design

Co-production: Cuatro X Cuatro*** Mexico, Centro Estatal de las Artes de Playas de Rosarito, Mexico, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch und Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin, Germany. 

Supported by Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales. 

*Fellow of the programme Jóvenes Creadores 2024-2025 by Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales
**Fellow of National System of Art Creators (SNCA) 2023-2026 Support System for Cultural Creation and Projects (FONCA)
*** Cuatro X Cuatro is supported by the programme Mexico en escena-grupos artisticos (MEGA)

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Marina Erler, Enrico Bordieri , Ana Me Zentgraf
FIDSCHI RAGE
Performance, 60min, German
Side Stage

“FIDSCHI RAGE” searches for the NOISE of rage in a body that is other-directed and ascribed as other. In the setting of a live stream under East German palm trees, the performer sets about visiting memories that have never been lived. KEEPONPUNCHING! 

Ana Me Zentgraf – Concept, Performance | Marina Erler – Concept, Live Sound | Enrico Bordieri – Concept, Dramaturgy

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20:00

Extended Family
Jack of all Trades
Dance, 30min, without language
Main Stage

Elements from different cultures merge in Hip Hop into a new form that does not fully belong to either the diaspora or the countries of origin, yet finds itself in both – creating a new category while simultaneously challenging categorisation itself. 

Ariela Leiva aka Ariela, Malik Nuganga aka Bola G, Gianmarco Sousa Da Luz aka Gio, Winston Allan Phillips aka Nomada, Jamali Abale aka Man with the Scarf – Dance | Joël Dagbeto aka Djoelinho – DJ | Martin Peñaloza Cecconi aka Ixora – Dance, Creative Director

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Paralelo Teatro
Constellations
Performance, 30min, multilingual
Upper Foyer

Alejandro Rodríguez and Dana Graham present a dance-theatre piece with live cumbia by René Gamez. Through their bodies, they explore racism, memory and love as constellations traced by the scars left behind by colonization. 

Dana Graham, Alejandro Rodríguez – Performance | René Gamez – Live Music | Lide Martínez – Executive Production

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Estelle Widmaier & John Shades
Les Gens Bless(és)
Dance, 30 min, English
Garden

“Les Gens Bless(és)” is a dance piece blending Haitian folklore and contemporary styles to explore trauma, resilience, and cultural identity, highlighting the transformative power of hope and healing in the face of adversity.

Estelle Widmaier, John Shades – Choreography, Performance | Trovania Delille – Poetry

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21:00

East Alien Company
Alien without Extraordinary Ability
Performance, 45min, multilingual
Back Stage

A participatory performance on migration, labour, and identity with reading, play, and surreal role-swapping between Earthlings and East Aliens. Audiences choose which reality to engage with. 

By and with Xiao Xiao (Xiaoji Song), Yve Oh, Yumo Cheng

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Loveable Humans
Spider Turtle We
Movement Theatre, 50min, English
Side Stage

Quiet observation of small species can change perspectives. A spider in a bathroom. A turtle by the bus stop. Everyday reality dresses itself in moving creatures. Join us to see, touch, and imagine an otherly life among unusual urban inhabitants. 

Jovita Siu, Magdalena Malinová, Michał Salwiński, Ran Jiao, Roman Zotov-Mikshin, Sai Morikawa – Performance | Ran Jiao – Concept, Direction | Anne-Catherine Kunz, Mara Ingea – Costume | Elia Moretti – Sound Design (live) | Martin Hamouz – Lighting Design | Susana Botero Santos – (Premiere) Scenography | Petra Hauerová, Sodja Lotker – Choreografic and Dramaturgical Support | Lovable Humans, zs / Lamija Čehajić – (Premiere) Production

Co-production: Bazaar Festival of Dance and Performance; National Theatre New Stage, Czech Republic; Lenka Vagnerova Studio; Ministry of Culture Czech Republic; Prague City Hall

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22:00

Yael Mor
No Home
Mockumentary Performance & Film, 40min, English
Main Stage

Yael just moved to Berlin. Broke and babysitting, she finally gets a shot to make a show—until a sinister figure in a dream sparks a spiral of self-doubt, turning rehearsals into a nightmare and unravelling her sanity.

Yael Mor – Writer, Director, Performer | Daniella Mor, Katharina Ruhm, Ariel Nil Levy – Performance Video | Daniel Brunet, Yael Mor – Voices Performance Video  | Yael Mor, Guy Kohavi – Video Editing | Yael Mor – Videographer | Una Ryo – Make-up & Prosthetics for the “Witch”

Special thanks to Soft Power Collective, English Theatre Berlin, Daniel Brunet, Theaterhaus Mitte, Ada Mukhina, Guy Kohavi, Omer Krieger & Uri Zamir.

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megouem
Eine Vertonung von King Nakeli / Nakelli / Nakeri Nw’embeli’s Widerstand 
Performative Reading, 45 min, multilingual
Upper Foyer

With King Nakeli/Nakelli/Nakeri Nw’embeli of the Ngolo (Oroko, Cameroon), the performance aims to introduce a heroic figure of colonial resistance to a contemporary audience. Commemorating him by transmitting excerpts from his fate through musical settings. 

megouem – Singer, Performer, Writer  

Collaborators: Elijah Hook – Sound | Filip Samuel Berg – Set Design | Sara Mathiasson – Hair Art | Shar Adams – Movement Direction | Marie Requa Bailey – Vocal Direction | Simona Bieksaite – Lighting Design | Antonia Adomako – Videography, Visuals

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Ixchel Tapia Fernandez
El vacio dentro de mi (The void inside of me)
Dance, 30min, English
Garden

Exploring, playing, and vocalising daily thoughts lets me connect with the void inside me. I embrace nostalgia, fear, and joy without overanalysing – just allowing these feelings to take over for an evening amidst my routine.

Ixchel Tapia Fernandez – Dance, Choreography | Eoin O’Connor – Photography, Sound editing

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23:00

Awka
Lafkenche Transmutations
Performance, 50min, English
Back Stage

Awka’s techno-shamanic performance examines the forced displacement of ancestral communities due to extractivism, exploring liminal experiences, memor, and marginal existence. “Lafkenche Transmutations” fuses bodily knowledge and ancestral wisdom, inviting a dance with memory. 

Awka – Performance | Spoke / Slomo Studio – Sound Design | Sofia Pastor – Curator

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Lara Alarcón
Pagan Celebration
Multimedia Opera, 45min, English
Side Stage

“Pagan Celebration” is an immersive multimedia opera in five movements, which through the use of acoustic extremes and poetic images, narrates a story that geolocates the listener in the landscape of Argentina through poetical interpretations of the concept of resistance.

Johanna Schmalöer – Cello, Voice | Sid Werner – Double bass | Arne Braun – Drums | Cyrill Ferrari – Guitar | German García – Touch design | Lara Alarcón – Composition, Voice, Sound design

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00:00

Midnight Talk with Reflections, Discussions, and Reviews following 100° Diaspora.