Freischwimmer Festival
A platform featuring emerging performers with a focus on intimacy. Includes an English-speaking programme with Rose Beermann, Iva Sveshtarova, Tümay Kılınçel, Jung Yun Bae and Caroline Creutzburg....
View ArticleBe Part of Something Bigger
The concept of the collective comes under fire as Gob Squad celebrates their 20th anniversary, marking the milestone with a weekend of performances, films, talks and music at HAU 1 and 2.
View ArticleKovács/O’Doherty – Increments
A two-day exhibition consisting of a mix of sound art, installation and performance which gradually builds up into a rapture of rhythmic fragments, acoustic traces, and feedback tones. Through Nov 7.
View ArticleGobbing for 20 years
INTERVIEW. The city cult institution Gob Squad invites you to “Be Part of Something Bigger” at the group’s weekend-long 20-year anniversary extravaganza, happening November 20-22 at HAU. Don't miss!
View ArticleThree questions for... Jörg Albrecht
INTERVIEW. Albrecht's NASTY PEACE, a fantasy-inspired audio tour, uses dragons and swords to explore the consequences of increasing privatisation in Kreuzberg. Experience his so-called "Game of Zones"...
View ArticleChoose your weapon
Film set, documentary theatre... game?! Daniel Wetzel of performance group Rimini Protokoll explains the trio’s “multi-player video piece” Situation Rooms, part of HAU's interdisciplinary Waffenloung,...
View ArticleA different kind of darkroom
Go play in the dark! In "Now I Lay Me Down", director Sabrina Hölzer of the formidable ensemble Kaleidoskop allows us to enter into a very intimate experience with music – in complete blackness. On at...
View ArticleDrag Race: Season 7
Join Pancy and her girls for the first episode of Rupauls's Drag Race season 7 followed by a drag show by Berlin’s favourite queens!
View ArticleInterdependency
Taking inspiration from The Last Question by Isaac Asimov, Diipti Firmstone and Joseph Wegmann's performance piece explores the dependency in the relationship between humans and technology. Followed by...
View ArticleETB Expat Expo Open House
Expat Expo will feature a selection of performances by multiple artists (in every genre imaginable) taking place throughout the theatre, from the dressing rooms to the theatre’s courtyard. Wanna to be...
View ArticleFilm is a drag: Peaches Christ and Showgirls
INTERVIEW. Infamous San Francisco drag queen Peaches Christ (aka Joshua Grannell) brings her hilarious and notorious interpretation of cult classic "Showgirls" to Südblock on Feb 14. Don't miss the love!
View ArticleExplicit Content
Romanian dancer and choreographer Sergiu Matis explores how individual dance techniques convert a dancer into a cyborg, a machine, imprinted with power and attitude, and contrasts it with desire. Watch...
View ArticleMythos Berlin
This festival celebrates the lively Berlin of the roaring twenties and also the present-day city with a eclectic mix of musical performances, DJ'd parties, hand puppets, and film screenings.
View ArticlePansy and Yo! Sissy Present: Alaska 5000
Pansy and her girls are bringing drag queen Alaska 5000 (of RuPaul's Drag Race fame) to Berlin. If you're a hardcore fan of Alaska's brand of comedic, campy glam, snap up a VIP Meet and Greet ticket...
View ArticleDuato | Klylián
Spanish dancer and choreographer and current Staatsballet director Nacho Duato and Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián team up for an electric dance performance, dealing with themes ranging from musical...
View ArticleBerlin Dungeon: Walpurgis Night
Wishing it was Halloween already? Berlin Dungeon has fans of goofy scares and adult dress-up covered with their Walpurgis Night party (a witches' meeting day in German folklore). Featuring a "scary"...
View ArticleBriefs – Excentric Body Circus
Briefs – Excentric Body Circus, the all-male cross-dressing circus, combines music, dance, and acrobatics.
View ArticleBlind Tisch
Dancer-choreographer Takako Suzuki and musician-poet Pär Thörn combine forces in an audiovisual performance that creates a story out of a sewing machine and a cassette player.
View ArticleDamn dirty apes at HKW
The apes are loose at HKW in their Ape Culture exhibition! And where would ape culture be without The Planet of the Apes? Interdisciplinary artist Coco Fusco channels Dr. Zira for a live lecture on...
View ArticleBad blood
Fake guts, Frosties, Prozac and in-your-face consumerism turn the famous Marquis de Sade novel (and Pasolini film), "120 Days of Sodom", into a bizarre theatrical spectacle, playing at Volksbühne on...
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