(in German and English)

“Through the attic, climb through the eye, onto the head. Keep a lookout.”

Sisi Bo’wale – actor, filmmaker, visual artist, and author – presents his first portrait performance at Ballhaus Naunynstraße!

One day, she was just there. We bonded instantly. I mean the mountain goat. Maybe because the mountains are a promise of freedom for both of us. Is a mountain goat still a mountain goat without a mountain?
What if there’s no place like home, but home has been turned into someone else’s vacation house?
What if I could be benevolent without being overlooked?
What if the mountain comes into the valley, if a mountain grows in the city?
What if we are the mountain?

Bo’wale navigates the complexities of identity and belonging, sidesteps expectations, and embraces contradictions, journeying through alpine landscapes and urban murmurings. Moonflavoured Mountains is an invitation to step out of rigid definitions and into the spaces in between. There where mountain goats live.

Portrait performances are a daring venture: here, it’s not about the role profile, about what one has always done, because others, directors and producers, see it “in” you, but rather it’s about what one wants to express.
PORTRAIT is an invitation to artists to showcase themselves and what matters to them. It’s an invitation to the audience to encounter artists in a complexity never seen before.