Dear audience,

we were pleased to be able to open the 2021/22 season with you. On September 2, 2021, the premiere of Courageux! Furchtlos! by director and writer Atif Mohammed Nor Hussein together with co-writer Amina Eisner kicked off the new season. A story about the lack of Black role models and hero*ines in the mainstream and a call to fill those voids.

Pepe Dayaw made his debut at Ballhaus Naunynstraße from September 11 to 13, 2021 – with a portrait performance, a fascinating insight into his artistic work. Thiago Rosa will show his portrait on September 24: With this, we are not only celebrating two premieres, but also the continuation of our PORTRÄT series: It offers artists the space to show themselves and their own skills and arts, indeed what is really important. PORTRÄT is thus an invitation to the audience to meet outstanding artists and to experience the complexity of their self-determined mode of expression, their art.

Sandeep Bhagwati’s lecture performance The Sound Of Misunderstanding – Dhvanivala‘s Sonic Explorations  opened the Decolonial Frequencies festival on September 19, 2021.  More than 20 artists are invited to this festival: Black perspectives, queer approaches, Asian-diasporic settings, post-migrant traditions, and voices of color, create their own sonic spaces and decolonial impulses for six months with numerous performances, lectures, and concerts. In his performance, Sandeep Bhagwatis follows the traces of electronic music between Darmstadt and Bollywood at the height of the postcolonial controversy, encountering a confusing play of identities, sounds and novel compositions.

We are back! Be excited about the new season! We are too and look forward to seeing you!

Your Ballhaus Naunynstraße