The self of today is the result of countless decisions and conscious transformations. Despite all external attributions and attempts at fixation, it has always been in motion. Dance is the medium to express this transformation. Today, I am a choreography of my selves.
Aesthetics of Color ‒ ein Kammerspiel shows an artist and his strategy to survive in a white market. Black visual artists are selling, they seem to be part of the worldwide circulation of art at biennials and fairs. A new hype in the whitewashed art world! But what do they produce? What spaces do the liberal arts offer? Who can assert themselves in them and how? And what is the price you have to pay if you expose yourself to the free art market in the White Cube?
The eye of the cyclops is round ‒ like the lens of a camera. Whoever controls the eye rules!
In his directorial debut at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Zé de Paiva merges all of his experiences as an actor, dancer, photographer and video artist. In an intermedial performance he and the dancer Nasheeka Nedsreal seek to distort the postcolonial configuration of images.
They came out of curiosity, for the city held a promise. Some sought refuge here from the violence of patriarchal societies, because Berlin offered them freedom — the possibility of reinventing themselves on their own terms. Or was it those who came who created this city of promise? In Amigues Adios by Bishop Black, five performers embark on a search for Berlin’s promise, for the freedom of being together beyond the conservative boundaries of sexual identity and racial identity.
The body is the medium for entering ever new worlds. The body is suppressed, the body is free. Natasha Vergilio’s art consists of using the centrifugal force of her own body movement to push forward into new spaces, for herself and for others – now she is showing Gira, her portrait performance at Ballhaus Naunynstraße!
Based on his experience of growing up in Berlin in the 1980s and 90s, dancer and choreographer Raphael Moussa Hillebrand attempts to shape his own life experience so that the next generation and his own child can pick up on it.
