100° Diaspora

Programme

17:00

Daniela Marcozzi / Marcozzi Contemporary Theater
Lacuna
Movement Theatre, 50min, English
Back Stage

Second piece of the “Trilogy of Power”, Lacuna pivots on the idea that just as a thought needs a body to inhabit in order to exist, a secret must be erased from the body it inhabits in order to be preserved. Where do governments hide their secrets? 

Daniela Marcozzi / Marcozzi Contemporary Theater – Performance | Peter Rose/Practical Works – Artistic Director | Peter Rose – Voice-over | Christina Kyriazidi – Dramaturgical  Support | Susanne Kasper – Costume | Elena Arci, Paolo Grazzi – Lighting design

Produced in June 2017 by Marcozzi Contemporary Theater in collaboration with Expedition Metropolis Theater with the kind support of Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.

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Roman Škadra
Girevik
Circus, 45 min, without language
Side Stage

Girevik is a performance featuring one man, a wooden set and 22 iron kettlebells. Merging movement, sound and sculpture, this play results in a fragile composition implying effort and collapse. 

Roman Škadra – Creation and Performance | Benjamin Richter, Aleksandras Lempertas – Research Collaboration | Benjamin Richter, Darragh McLoughlin, Claudio Stellato – Creative Advice | Frank Kraft – Kettlebell Coach | Aleksandras Lempertas – Sound | Piotr Lemieszczuk – Lighting design | Tomasz Bajsarowicz – Stage Construction | Anna-Katharina Andrees – Costume and Production

Partners/Coproduction: CIRQUEON - Center for new circus, Center for the Development of Choreography SE.S.TA 

Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR. 

Residencies: Berlin Theaterhaus - Kulturinitiative Förderband gGmbH Berlin, Schloss Bröllin e.V., Ringlokschuppen Ruhr Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, CIRQUEON Prague, SE.S.TA Žďár nad Sázavou, Jatka78 Prague.

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18:00

Valentina Wong
From Non-Existent Futures
Performance, 40min, without language
Main Stage

Choreographic solo that takes as its departure point the embodiment of speculative and dystopian landscapes. Operating through an ongoing relational process with different materials, allowing for a constant cycle of mutation and reconfiguration of the body. 

Valentina Wong – Choreography, Performance | Nicolas Russi – Lighting Design | Matilde Amigo – Dramaturgy

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Jee-Ae Lim / HomePlus Ensemble
Like a river runs through us
Performance, 35min, German
Upper Foyer

The performance revolves around first-generation Korean nurses who came to West Germany in the 1960s–70s under guest worker contracts. As performers, they convey stories of assimilation, marginalisation and isolation shaped by language, culture and class. 

Jee-Ae Lim – Concept, Choreography | Sang Hwa Nam – Dramaturgy | Kyong Soo Shin-Nolte, Ok Hi Kim-Wehnes, Keh-Sook Sin-Hermeneit, Hwa-Cha Schwabe  of HomePlus Ensemble – Story, Performance

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Giuliana Corsi & Melissa Figueiredo
Ephemeroptera 
Dance, 50min, without language
Garden

“Ephemeroptera” is a piece inspired by the Mayflies and reflects on ephemerality, relating the cycles of these insects with human existence and suggesting new relationships of us towards mortality, elusiveness and reciprocity towards the environment. 

Carla Boregas – Musician | Giuliana Corsi – Choreographer, Dancer | Melissa Figueiredo – Choreographer, Dancer | Nindya Nareswari – Light artist

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19:00

Vivian Ngozi Aghamelu, Doriane Mbenoun, Jarita Freydank
Ritual of Resistance
Performance, 45min, multilingual
Back Stage

In a ritual movement performance, we connect spiritually with our ancestors. Guided by their memories, we reclaim their wisdom of knowledge, resistance and liberation. 

Vivian Ngozi Aghamelu – Concept, Costume, Dance, Production, Project Management | Doriane Mbenoun – Concept, Dance | Jarita Freydank – Sound 

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SHANTI VERA / CUATRO X CUATRO
LEIB, ¿Qué puede un cuerpo?
Performance, 45min, multilingual
Side Stage

“¿Qué puede un cuerpo?” (What Can a Body Do?) is the third part of the LEIB project. LEIB means “body” but it is also a CONJURO originating from the mountains of southern Mexico for all those who have disappeared to find their way home again. 

Shantí Vera – Research, Choreography, Direction | Sendic Vázquez**, Jésica Elizondo***, Fermín Martínez, Arturo Lugo, Melissa Herrada**** & Shantí Vera – Creation | Jesica Elizondo – Light Dramaturgy | Mirtha Luz Pérez Robledo – Texts | Fermín Martínez – Sound Dramaturgy | Manuel Estrella***, Fermín Martínez – Music | Arturo Lugo von Tun Project – Art Direction | Paulina Cervantes / Maremoto Producciones & Matías Gutiérrez/Próximamente Festival – Photography | Fernando Frías/Maremoto Producciones – Video | Jésica Elizondo, Melissa Herrada, Sendic Vázquez, Shantí Vera – Performance | Areli Morán, Melissa Herrada & Arturo Lugo von Tun Project – Creative Production 

Production: Fabrik Potsdam and PLATAFORMA (Germany), Centro Cultural Helénico, Danza UNAM, Programa MEGA 2021 y 2024 del Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (Mexico), Próximamente Festival & Workspacebrussels (Belgium) und Cuatro X Cuatro 

*México en Escena Grupos Artísticos (MEGA) 2024. Sistema de Apoyo a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (SACPC). **Creadores escénicos Cat. B 2024-2025. Sistema de Apoyo a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (SACPC). ***Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA) 2023-2026. Sistema de Apoyo a la Creación y a los Proyectos Culturales (SACPC). ****Jóvenes Creadores 2024-2025. Sistema de Apoyo a la Creación

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20:00 Uhr

Armin Hokmi
Shiraz
Dance, 55min, without language
Main Stage

Unanimously acclaimed by critics, and audiences, “Shiraz” comes back to Berlin after a year of international performances. Set to enchanting electro beats, the piece allures with its sensibility, and brings the collective work of remembering and dancing together to the forefront. 

Armin Hokmi – Concept, Choreoraphy | Daniel Sarr, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Aleksandra Petrushevska, Efthimios Moschopoulos, Johanna Ryynänen, Emmi Venna, Charlott Madeleine Utzig, in alternation with Xenia Koghilaki – Dance, Performance | EHSXN, Reza R – Music | Felipe Osorio Guzmán – Scenography and Light Concept | Vito Walter – Lighting Design | Moriah Askenaizer – Costumes | Vali Mahlouji – Consultation and archival study of the Shiraz Arts Festival (1966-1977) | Pablo Thiermann – Sound Technician

Created in conversation with Emmi Venna. 

Co-production: Festival Montpellier Danse 2024, Rosendal Teater (Trondheim), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), Black Box teater (Oslo), Tanzfabrik (Berlin) 

Supported by Arts Council Norway, Nordic Culture Fund, FFUK, Nordic Culture Point 

Residency support by Montpellier Danse, Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Lake Studios (Berlin), Uferstudios (Berlin), DAVVI Center for Performing Arts Hammerfest 

Research period supported by Dis-Tanzen 

Thank you to Anne Cécile Sibué, Rasmus Jensen, Diletta Sperman, Ellen Söderhult, Theaterhaus Berlin

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tạt lon
Stories from the fish market
Spoken Theatre, 40min, multilingual
Upper Foyer

“Stories from the Fish Market” is a multimedia performance by tạt lon poetry. Through speculative storytelling, it permeates the many dimensions of “Việt Nam”: territorial and immaterial, diasporic and local, divided, reunified and ever-changing. 

By and with Nam Anh Nguyễn Quốc, Quang Nguyễn-Xuân

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Nitsan Margaliot 
NOISES
Dance, 45min, English
Garden

“NOISES” is a reaction, a response to the unknown, to chaos, to societal and inner fears and to a belief that the body is able to express unease and move into poetic homage, holding and repeatedly transforming layers of emotional history. 

Nitsan Margaliot – Choreography, Performance | Anna Chwialkowska, Maxwell McCarthy – Dramaturgy | Antoine Mermet – Sound Design | Judith Förster – Costume | Gil Shachar – Scenography

Supported by European Festival Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA) with a showing at T*Danse Festival in Aosta, Italien | Italy. 
 
 

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21:00 Uhr

Maja Zeco & Roman Stolyar
LIBERA ME
Performance, 55min, multilingual
Back Stage

Based on interviews taken from witnesses of recent European wars, audiovisual performance “LIBERA ME” searches for ways of liberation from fears, hatred and mistrust that divide nations passed through military conflicts. 

Maja Zećo, Roman Stolyar – Idea, Directing | Maja Zećo – Narration, Video | Roman Stolyar – Music and Editing | Camila Nebbia – Saxophone Solo | Beatriz Gijón Gijón, Tisa Neža Herlec – Vocals | Grirori Kofman, Maja Zećo, Roman Stolyar – Narrators | Alyona, Joha, Svetlana, Asmir, Tatiana, Oleg, Vedrana, Jasmina, Amila, Irma, Julia, Maja – Voices of the witnesses of wars in Bosnia and Ukraine

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GOD MILK
OUR BODY
Performance, 50min, without language
Side Stage

Milk: the first elixir, life’s root. Now sold back to femmes as beauty, wellness, status. A fantasy market that feeds off the oldest source, turning care into capital and survival into a game. 

Lauren Pringle – Director, Producer, Performance | Joaquina Salgado – Technical Artist | Luisa Rodriguez aka Mujer Cobra – Creative Director, Performance | Emilia Martos – Artistic Direction | Adriana Berroteran, Manoela Rangel, Kulshedra – Performance | Qoa – Composer, Sound Artist

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22:00

Amanda Donato
TOUGHGUY
Dance, 30min, without language
Main Stage

“TOUGHGUY” contemplates a woman’s ambitious creative psyche in a postmodern world: a boxing ring of masculine inner voices locked in self-competition. 

Amanda Donato – Choreographer | Ginjo Sakai, Yuki Takahashi – Dancers and Co-Creators | Kaan Bulak – Music | Juan Paulo “JP” Deapera – Dramaturgy and Production Support | Pilar Falco with MXM (Mirella Brandi, Muep Etmo) – Lighting Design 

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İpek Seyalıoğlu
Notes on the tip of My Tongue: The Contemporary Art of Survival
Performance, 60min, English
Upper Foyer

“Once upon a time, a boy wanted to sing in the streets. In fact, he didn’t want to do anything else.”  
In her poetic solo, İpek Seyalıoğlu speaks to be heard when freedom of speech is scarce. 
“Always praise life. This is the way to sing.” 

İpek Seyalıoğlu – Playwright, Performer, Director | Furkan Yazıcı – Artistic Collaboration | Sebastian Nübling – Outside Eye | Aşkın Kırım – Trumpet Improvisation | Henning Streck – Lighting Design | Antje Kuhfeld, Mali Dönmez – Light Technicians | Ron Bracht – Sound Technician

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00:00

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