The logo of the post-migrant theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße: a drawing of a dog’s head in profile, showing its teeth with its tongue hanging out. Next to the dog’s open mouth is a red star.

Ballhaus Naunynstraße

Julien Enzanza

Julien Enzanza

Julien Enzanza is a dramaturge and art researcher. His artistic research interests focus on the practice of „Affirmative Sabotage“ and the historicization of Black Surrealists. He completed his master’s degree in Sociocultural Studies at the European University Viadrina, where he worked as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Andreas Reckwitz in the Department of Comparative Cultural Sociology. At the Theater Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin, he worked as a dramaturge and assistant director on various productions. He also curated the four-part discourse series of the Festival Postcolonial Poly Perspectives (2019). As part of the residency program of the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U), he worked with the South African curator and artist Luvuyo Equiano Nywose. In the 2022/23 season, he accompanied the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas‘ opera Sycorax at Bühnen Bern as dramaturge and the dance performance 2 (2022) by Taren Johnson at Tanzhaus Zürich. Julien worked as a dramaturge at Ballhaus Naunynstraße on productions including Territory (2021) by Atilla Oener, re-Searching Joy (2022), a production by akademie der autodidakten under the direction of Bishop Black and Flight of the Canaries (2023) by Bishop Black.

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