2 June – 30 July 2022

Rathausvorplatz Wedding / Wedding Town Hall Square
& Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art

Movement Research ACROSS (Exhibition)

Movement Research ACROSS: An Inhabitable Outdoor Stage and an Indoor Exhibition

With works by Viron Erol Vert, RA Walden and Jimmy Robert. With interventions by André Uerba and Angela Alves.

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30 July 2022, 4 - 6.30pm

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

INTI-mate Heal-inG

INTI-mate HealinG is a public performance installation by artist, activist and curator Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (also known as crazinisT artisT) that expands the discussion about bodies seen as sick, imperfect, illegal and uncultured. The performance challenges notions about the representation of marginalised groups in mainstream media and the discriminatory policies that lead to economic, religious, medical and social exclusion. In INTI-mate Heal-inG, the audience is invited to participate in a collective, embodied solidarity and healing body care, and to reflect on their own vulnerabilities, fears and privileges.

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30 July 2022, 7 - 8pm

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

Best Wishes for Wedding

Performance by Carrie Hampel

An artist, acrobat, and future mobility journalist, Carrie Hampel, will perform a public ritual performance with a sound piece based on interviews with Wedding residents and workers about their wishes for the district. Street cyclists and professional bicycle acrobats will perform a choreography for the resident’s wishes as Hampel conducts the public ritual.

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11 June 2022, 1.30 – 2 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

Dice

Performance by Medhat Aldaabal

“I was named by chance

and belonged to a family by chance,

and inherited its features, traits, and illnesses

I played no role in who I became

It was by chance that I became a male

I could have not existed.”

(“The Dice Player" by Mahmoud Darwish)

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11 June 2022, 2 – 6.30 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

JAM ACROSS & BATTLE

hosted by Tatjana Mahlke & Sonia Robak (House Szene Berlin)

JAM ACROSS combines different street dance styles such as breaking, hip hop, popping, house and waacking into one single jam. One hour each of funk, hip hop and house music in their finest form. The House Jam also serves as a qualifier for the dance battle that follows - House 7 to Smoke. No matter which level you are, everyone is welcome to jam! 

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11 June 2022, 7 – 8 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

Landscape of Comfort

Performance by Rachel Monosov

Within the Landscape of Comfort, we will collectively explore the human body's adaptation to structures and objects. Objects that purportedly give freedom to movement, here may create confusion and frustration, inviting and imposing sets of habitual, if unnatural, behaviors. The performance questions how the endless shift between comfort to discomfort embodies resistance to surrendering to the power structure.

Dancers: Camilla Brogaard, Tamar Grosz
Singer: Julia Shelkovskaia
Musician: Pablo Ritter

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11 June 2022, time to be confirmed

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

Faux-Pas

by Jule Flierl

PERFORMANCE CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS

To touch the ground is to massage the earth and to speak with the soles of one's feet. Faux-Pas is an anti-march, a research into patterning rhetorics and experimental announcing. Faux-Pas is an integral part of the artist's study for the “School of Attunement and Tactlessness”.

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11 June 2022, 8.30 – 9. 30 PM

Galerie Wedding & Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

FIRE STARTER #2

Performance by André Uerba

Seven performers play with concepts of togetherness and explore how the encounter between the performers, the audience, and also the audience members amongst each other, can manifest. Fire Starter #2 is a space for research where the audience can decide on their role: they watch, they move or they dynamically change role. The performers themselves can at times turn into caretakers, “tour” guides that conduct the experience during the piece. Another work by Uerba is INVITING MOMENTS OF STILLNESS, a film presented in Galerie Wedding, touch, slowness and togetherness are key themes. In the film a choreographic-performative exploration of the practice of touch is presented. By slowing down and focussing on the body, he and his co-residents test different forms of becoming acquainted with, and sensing, one another as a means of uncovering togetherness. 

Performers:
Luisa Rodriguez
Lyllie Rouvière
Michela Filzi
Manoela Rangel
Marcell Proske
Pauline Payen

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10 June 2022, 3 – 5 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

Deep (body) Movement (for restricted spaces)

In-situ soundscape by Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez

The artist will compose an electronic sound piece and create a large-scale carpet for people to sit or lie on while listening to the in-situ soundscape. The presence of the carpet will make the public realm more private, and inversely, as we, the audience enter into an inner space, we will slowly change how we perceive the outer space that surrounds us.

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10 June 2022, 5 – 6.15 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

Dabke Community Dancing

Workshop with Medhat Aldaabal and Musician Adel Sabawi

For several years now Sasha Waltz & Guests and Berlin Mondiale have been presenting “Dabke Community Dancing” with Medhat Aldaabal and Adel Sabawi and will now for the first time invite participants to dance at ACROSS.
The traditional circle dance is popular in the Middle East and now also in Berlin. “When I see that people are happy and smiling, then I feel that I become part of this country and the country part of me”. (Medhat Aldaabal)

Adel Sabawi, a Syrian guitarist living in Berlin, started playing the instrument back home in Damascus and has been practising and performing for more than 20 years now. This vast experience allowed him to achieve excellency in creating remarkable transitions between quarter and half notes on the guitar.

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10 June 2022, 6.30 – 8.30 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

XOIR

Vocal Workshop by Colin Self

XOIR is a vocal workshop led by Colin Self focused on alternative forms of group singing. Rooted in somatic research and experimentation, the goal of XOIR is to foster an environment for individuals to connect with their voice on an individual and collective level. XOIR is open to anyone interested in exploring their voice as a tool for learning or building a new relationship to singing and listening.

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10 June 2022, 9 – 10 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

Party Alone

Concert by Namosh

"Namosh mirrors his music on a physical level to the point that it is difficult to separate art from artist. With expressive movements not unlike a silent film actor, a story takes shape through motion as well as sound. He could at times be perceived as a character or persona, were it not for an undercurrent of sincerity and lack of pretense. On his new album "Party Alone" - the follow up to "Music Muscle" (2018), there is a further refinement in production style and intricacy of arrangement. Despite this high level of detail, the album contains a spontaneous, unpredictable quality as well. It is captivating at once, but still takes time to fully evolve and take its place in the subconscious." (Travis Taylor)

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2 June 2022, 5.30 – 6 PM & 7.30 – 8 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square & Galerie Wedding

ANASTATICA

Performance by Moran Sanderovich

In ANASTATICA wounds and traumas act as portals, enabling a human evolution that relies on the fantastic potential of "new" and "other" bodies and develops beyond the normative and binary. ANASTATICA describes abnormal bodies as supernatural that draw power from their otherness, all the while asking questions about the never-ending cycle of victim and victimiser within systems of patriarchal violence.

Concept, choreography and performance: Moran Sanderovich
Dramaturgy and co-choreography: Lyllie Rouvière
Musician: Ludwig Wandinger

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2 June 2022, 6 – 6.20 PM & 3 June 2022, 4 - 4.20PM

Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art

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Performance by Lois Alexander

Inspired by what scholar Tina Campt describes as ‘textured identities’, artist Lois Alexander uses the embodied nature of dance and performance to articulate an in-between, a migratory state from various black feminist perspectives. Alexander will  especially explore phenomena of watery bodies and pluralistic perceptions of selfhood, kin-making and being together in her performance.

Musician: Grégoire Simon

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2 June 2022, 6.30 – 7.15 PM

Galerie Wedding & Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

walk+talk

Lecture performance by Anna Nowicka

walk+talk is a lecture performance series initiated by Austrian choreographer and dancer Philipp Gehmacher. During walks+talks choreographers are invited to create a solo work where moving and talking run in parallel. The topic is the artists’ concepts, the individual understanding of their body-in-motion and the history of their practice. 

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3 June 2022, 8 – 8.45 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

Recap of an Alien Garden

Performance by Justin F. Kennedy

Recap of an Alien Garden is a sci-fi opera conceived and choreographed by community dance and vocal artist, Justin F. Kennedy. Recap posits the Alien Garden at the public square in Berlin as a site for emancipation. The performance uses the history of Ska music to address the topics of AlienNation and displacement. The infectious Ska basslines, overlaid with alienating lyrics and riffs invite into an “effervescent skank”. The piece is performed by Kennedy, ILYICH and a special guest.

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3 June 2022, 5 – 8pm & 4 June 2022, 4 – 7 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

PLETHORA

Together with Krump dancers Mario Perez Amigo, Timothy SteelRage Kakeeto, MICKY KNOXX, Nicole Kufeld, Iman Gele, Joel Borgel and DJ Peter Holm, artist Èva Mag engages in a durational hip hop performance investigating the term “plethora” (Greek: “excess”) with the help of clay, latex, krump and music. Krumping is a street dance characterised by expressive, exaggerated and highly energetic movement. It conveys raw emotions in a powerful, yet non-violent way.

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4 June 2022, 7 – 7.40 PM

Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art

Slides, A Letter To Dance

Performance by Roni Katz (a production from 2017)

A choreographer invites the audience to join in dancing from the past and to the political realities of the present. While acknowledging inspiration and heritage, and the impossibility to undo education and training, her feelings are exposed. The entanglement of dance with her body and her ability to detach follow her during her search for the reasons why she began, and why she continues dancing.

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4 June 2022, 8 – 9 PM

Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art

Talk & Discussion with Alexandra Hennig & Nitsan Margaliot

Alexandra Henning moderates a discussion with dancers and performers together with choreographer, dancer and curator Nitsan Margaliot.

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5 June 2022, 1.30 – 5.30 PM

Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art

PAUSE & Unfolding Dreams

Workshops by Anna Nowicka

PAUSE is a workshop. Within every pause lies the potential of an exploration of the act of stopping. Nowicka is interested in pauses as particular states of being within dancing; pauses as a quiet, expanded space to sense, feel and respond.

“Unfolding dreams” is an invitation to plunge into recent night dreams and to collectively unravel their deeper meanings. It is a two hour workshop where one dream will be chosen and "opened", following the dream opening® procedure from The School of Images.

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11 June 2022, 8 – 8.30 PM & 9.30 – 10 PM

Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square

DJ Set by Sloush + Zarrt

Sloush + Zarrt is a Berlin based Artist/DJ Team playing diverse electronic sounds “for extra smart babies as well as beat horny grown ups. Slugging over the genres, making them one slippery trail full of shiny pearls from different couleur and diamonds from all over the world.” (Cashmere Radio)

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