Calendar

Rakete presents a new generation of performance artists, choreographers and dancers who are looking for alternative narratives. A journey to unknown galaxies and new life forms. All we need for the exploration of space is the spirit of discovery and a day ticket. Three. Two. One. Zero.

The Power (of) The Fragile is a collection of images, reflections on what the relation between mother and son can look like, on what it means to be home and to go away.

Dust needs a place to congregate. Dust records the passing of time and directs our attention to the contours of objects, their atmospheres.

In The Many Piece, choreographies are imagined as materials that can be combined, fragmented, reassembled, interwoven and can lean against one another.

Spaziergang bei Nacht is a duet by Susanne Songi Griem and musician* Pete Prison IV that addresses the constant alterations of internal set-ups by external circumstances. Inspired by the themes of spring and departure, both performers interpret the complexity of change, solitude, discomfort and compassion in a green landscape.

In KIRKPINAR, caner teker appropriates movements from traditional Turkish oil wrestling, opening new queer spaces where the power dynamics of history, masculinity, vulnerability, and intimacy can be investigated.

blackmilk invites a performative dimension into cultural representation of black masculinity and opens it up to a different complexity and sensitivity.

Imani Kai Johnson offers an overview of her new book, Dark Matter in "Breaking Cyphers: Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop" (Oxford 2022).

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