For its third edition, »The Listening Biennial« brings together sonic, visual and performative works by an international cohort of artists for a week-long program of creative and reparative listening. Challenging current attention economies with their crisis capitalism, the Biennial offers a restorative space for deep breaths and slow talk, and for listening-with the vibrant matters of our planetary world. Comprised of artistic installations throughout the building of Ballhaus Ost, an informal talk series taking place under the trees, and an evening program of live performances and experimental sounds, we invite audiences into a listening journey full of poetic voices, stories, noises and songs. In particular, »The Listening Biennial« works at building greater listening cultures, nurturing radical openness and compassionate action. The Listening Biennial is an artistic, research project focusing on listening as a creative, critical capacity. It is compris of a network of partner institutions aednd cultural venues around the world in support of greater listening cultures and practices. P R O G R A M Exhibition:Mi 3.9. – So 7.9. 13:00 – 18:00 (Free entrance) Talks & Conversations:Do 4.9. – Sa 6.9. 18:00 – 19:30 (Free entrance) Live Performances:Doors 19:30 / Start 20:00 Mi 3.9.: Siegmar Zacharias, Mariana CarvalhoDo 4.9.: Stefan Roigk, Brandon LaBelle, Isuru Kumarasinghe & Sara MikolaiFr 5.9.: Lílian Campesato, Agustín Genoud, Kirstin BurckhardtSa 6.9.: Miguel Buenrostro, Yara Mekawei, Ola Zielińska Installations: Mario Asef, Max Bloching, Tatiana Fiodorova, Helen Hine, Annette le Fort, Nicole L’Huillier, Silvia Maglioni / Graeme Thomson, Israel Martínez, Oficina de Autonomia, ~pes (Elizabeth Gallón Droste & Pablo Torres Gómez) Audio works: Florence Cats/Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir (Belgium/Iceland), Rachel S. Y. Chen (Singapore), Kaur Chimuk (India), Čhoakkeladd (Kashmir), Mariana Pinto Coelho Dias (Portugal), MycoDyke (India), Hear & Found (Thailand), Shwe Wutt Hmon (Myanmar), Lynn Nandar Htoo (Myanmar), Lagos Sound Artists Collective (Nigeria), Okui Lala, Ana Estrada, Nasrikah (Malaysia/ Australia/Indonesia), Nicole L’Huillier (Chile/Germany), Chong Li-chuan (Singapore), Subash Thebe Limbu (Nepal), Elena Lucca (Argentina), Imaad Majeed (Sri Lanka), Yara Mekawei (Egypt), Graciela Muñoz (Chile), Jacqueline Nova (Belgium/Colombia), Lujáne Vaqar Pagganwala (Pakistan), Amanda Piña (Austria/México), Ruhail Qaisar (Ladakh), Superlative Futures – Wong Zihao & Diancong Liu (Singapore), Irazema H. Vera (Peru), Valentina Villarroel (Chile), YIM Sui Fong (Hong Kong), zeropowercut (Patna, India). Curated by: Mario Asef, Brandon LaBelle, Alecia Neo, Soledad Garcia Saavedra, Suvani Suri

Antonia Baehr »Hallo Du!« 2025 / UABryan Eubanks »The Permanent Computer« 2025 / UARolando Hernández Guzmán »Amoxohtoca II« 2025 / UAPauline Oliveros »Portraits of Maulwerker« 2008, neue Version 2025 / UA The compositions in the programme of the new edition of the successful maulwerker performing music series focus on the responsibilities and freedoms in open processes, the influence of one’s own behaviour on the musical dynamics of the whole and the social processes reflected therein. Such interactive music, which requires the performers to participate in the creation of the works, can only succeed if the participants get involved and truly articulate themselves. The result is not only a collective expression, but also a portrait of the group. Maulwerker, collective for vocal experiments, integrate elements of performance art, intermedial art and choreography into their music. On September 14, a public discussion will take place following the performance. Moderator: Ariane Jeßulat, guests: Antonia Baehr, Bryan Eubanks, Christian Kesten. In English.

Dissolving is a regular gathering for an exchange on crip-related topics. The focus is on neurodivergent, chronically ill, and invisibly disabled perspectives. In a relaxed environment, we invite you to exchange ideas about (access) needs and crip-specific organizational methods and aesthetics. We are eagerly seeking new connections and opportunities for action.The meetings are a mixture of the participants’ pressing issues and the topics prepared by Juliet and Wanda. Anyone who is interested is invited to participate in whatever way they can. On September 15, we will be discussing the topic of diverse (crip) temporalities.The meetings will last approximately three hours (with a 30-minute break).We ask that you register so that we can plan better, but you are also welcome to drop by without registering. Wanda Dubrau and Juliet Meding have been exchanging ideas for some time now on the dissolution of pre-structured spaces and temporalities, as well as on the inclusion of marginalized bodies and ways of being.Since 2024, they have been co-hosting the DISSOLVING series.

Tuesday 16.9.18:00-19:30 Thaiboxing | Muay Thai (Janne Kummer)Wednesday 17.9.18:00-19:30 Queer Functional Training (Philisha Kay)20:00-21:30 Musical Dance Mix Workout (Mathilda Kleo Colada)Thursday 18.9.17:00-21:00 PLAY BadmintonFriday 19.9.17:00-21:00 PLAY ping pongSaturday 20.9.13:00-18:00 dodgeball tournament Participation free of charge. Registration at sport@ballhausost.de The undisciplined fighter: Martial arts as a tool for trauma work with Janne Kummer explores the potential of empowerment through collective physical movement, using martial arts as a starting point to experiment with and transgress into different forms of movement exploration. All bodies and fitness levels are welcome, no experience in martial arts is needed. dienen. Alle Körper und Fitnessniveaus sind willkommen, keine Erfahrung im Kampfsport notwendig. Softer Hards. Queer Functional Training with Philisha Kay expands functional training through artistic and research-based explorations of bodybuilding. Varying bodyweight exercises from calisthenics and resistance training are combined with theoretical impulses and experimental creative reflections. Musical Dance Mix Workout with Mathilda Kleo Colada is an energetic dance workout where you have the opportunity to feel like a Broadway star for about an hour. MDMW is a mix of different dance styles and a group fitness workout. You don’t need any previous experience to take part. For PLAY Badminton the net is stretched in the sports hall. The court is marked out. The shuttlecocks are provided. 60-minute time slots, bookable for everyone. At PLAY ping pong, the tables are ready and waiting for you and you can book your table by the hour, practice your topspin, practise mixed doubles or just play like in the park (without the wind). The Dodgeball Tournament takes the game with the questionable german name (Völkerball) out of the school sports corner and focuses on fair play. Come as teams or individuals, come as a sporty or non-sporty person. Come as children, teenagers and adults. Come to become part of a team or as audience! We play a tournament mode, but with background music and ground fog, the focus is on fun. Registration and team building 13:00, begin 13:30.

»Der Fröhliche Weinberg« premiered in 1925 – the same year that Adolf Hitler’s hate pamphlet »Mein Kampf« was published. In his comedy, playwright Carl Zuckmayer sings the praises of German Gemütlichkeit, but barely mentions the fascist threat. »Back then, we still believed we could laugh it off at the top of our lungs – until one day there was nothing left to laugh about«, he states in 1961. Exactly 100 years later, the performance collective Boys* in Sync takes Carl Zuckmayer’s German vineyard idyll as an opportunity to reflect on theater and the joy of laughter. While right-wing governments are swinging into power in many places around the world, the artists from Poland, Sweden, Norway and Germany are producing their very own »international comedy«: In SECOND SEASON, they shed light with seriousness and queer pleasure on the stories we tell in the theater – and why it never matters… The Berlin performance is part of the »BOYS* IN SYNC Going Home Tour«: For one month, the artists will travel through five different European countries with their narrative performance. This project is supported by Performing Arts Hub Norway, Arts and Culture Norway, Nordic Culture Point and Kulturstöd Göteborg. BOYS* IN SYNCis a performance collective with members from Germany, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Sweden and Denmark. Their works move between the poles of queer body practice, pop aesthetics and documentary performance.Permanent members are the puppeteer Ragni Halle, the actors Livia Hiselius and Jay Tebogo Fiskerstrand, the musician Gregers Hansen, the dancer Jakob Krog and the director Simon David Zeller. Since 2019, the group has been invited to the Fringe Festival Edinburgh, Fast Forward Festival Dresden, Performing Arts Festival Berlin, Frie Felts Festival Copenhagen and Autor:innentheatertage Berlin, among others. www.boysinsync.com

We open the cult sci-fi novel from our back pockets and start reading. The story begins — snakes and scars. Letters from a runaway. Study notes and cover versions. A folk song in a new language. A happy ending, and we close the book.We try again — a recording studio in Nashville. A second hand bookstore. A bus station, a way station, a seedbank. The Scala and the Jeong. Another ending.One more time — a starship powered by desire. A shell revealing our souls. A forest, singing to another forest. High tide.Again …?What do we do when the happy ending doesn’t make us happy? / What do we do with a utopia haunted by ghosts? / How do we know when the story ends? »Seedling«, a new stagework from ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS, navigates a multiverse in search of beauty and meaning in the unending circular mess of our Queer lives. It’s the ninth chapter of the two-year constellation artwork With Forests in Our Mouths and a companion to »Palace of Ash & Rain« which showed at Ballhaus Ost in autumn ’24. www.withforestsinourmouths.com

25 years of Labor Sonor. Five concerts. One long evening. 1) krautfuzz is characterized by an edgy, futuristic tension that ranges from neo-psych rock to abstract minimalism to pure noise: with live video improvisations by iLan katin. 2) INK is a flexible bubble of floating excitement, romantic slowdowns, and cheerful choruses. 3) Christian Kesten moves objects on an amplified table and tells strange stories to accompany them. 4) Fernanda Farah’s new piece FEED•IN•ATTENTION is a soundtrack consisting of her Instagram feed and its algorithmic discrepancies (premiere). 5) Contagious is a forward-looking mix of avant-garde experimentation and electronic music. Labor Sonor is the oldest concert series for real-time music and has shaped a broad scene since its inception. It presents the spectrum of current experimental music forms beyond genre-specific definability.

The Berlin-based composer and musician Stepha Schweigerpresents »THE WATS«, a new cross-genre work of music theatre.The piece, an implementation of Katherine Mansfield’s (1888–1923) short story »The Woman at the Store«, will premiere on October 2, 2025, at Ballhaus Ost in Berlin. In THE WATS, three travellers stumble upon a mysterious woman and her child in a remote, apocalyptic desert landscape in New Zealand. What begins as a strenuousbut also humorous journey soon develops into an absurd drama about violence, isolation and emancipation. Schweiger translates Mansfield’s themes – the role of women, interpersonal relationships and our connection with nature – into a contemporary social context. Applying the musical methods of repetition and subtle, catchy variations, the music theatre addresses highly topical issues such as sexualised violence, climate catastrophe and the quest for self-determination.

The Dames are back for their sold out show The Dames’ Revue. An evening of live music and cabaret starring Nancy Nutter on vocals and Madame Eve on the piano. For the last six months, throughout three shows, Nancy and Eve have been collaborating with some ofBerlin’s finest performers. The Dames’ Revue presents the fruits of these collaborations, uniting in one show burlesque icon Chiqui Love, circus extraordinaire Jade Lee and drag legend Bridge Markland. In 3 acts, this revue is a journey from femininity to masculinity, through spirituality. Get comfy, bring some snacks and strap in for the ride! The Dames ((established 2022 in Berlin) is a live cabaret musical double act. With a piano and their voices they offer a moment in time, to share music as memory, taking you on an emotional rollercoaster for a cathartic release. Performers Nancy Nutter | Madame Eve | Chiqui Love | Jade Lee | Bridge Markland

»Der Ocean« is a multisensory dance and music performance for deaf and hearing adults, with and without babies. The performance delves into the complex and ambivalent experiences of parenthood and childhood—a web of contradictions involving care, exhaustion, and tenderness. Inspired by the image of the ocean—a symbol of vastness, change, and security, of an imagined, inexhaustible maternal source, but also as an open, connecting body of water—the piece approaches the themes of parenthood, care, and dependence from different angles. In close connection with voice, choreography, vibrations, taste, and sign language, a multi-layered, collectively experiential composition by Genoël von Lilienstern and La Cage emerges. La Cage was founded in Berlin and Paris in 2015.The company combines musical and sculptural forms in performative formats.

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Connected in the fight against anti-Muslim racism & anti-Semitism.
A relaxed series of events on intense topics.

«مِت ڤيركونغ» (تشارك): سلسلة فعاليات «ريلاكسد» حول مواضيع جادة

في ظل أجواء الانقسام في برلين، حيث الخطاب السائد مشوَّش والتعريفات مسيَّسة، تهدف سلسلة فعاليات «مِت ڤيركونغ» إلى طرح وسائل التضامن وإلى خلق مساحات للسمع والتعلم والتأمل والتبادل. مرتكزة على الروابط في النضالين ضد العنصرية تجاه المسلمين ومعاداة السامية، تدعو «مِت ڤيركونغ» الحضور إلى التفاعل مع رؤًى مختلفة، وتساؤلات، وتحديات متعلقة بتلك النضالات.

اللغة: اللغات الأساسية ستكون الإنكليزية والألمانية، لكن ستتوفر ترجمة فورية بالعربية أيضًا.

Language
The main languages are English and German.
Simultaneous translation into English, German and Arabic will be provided.

Upcoming events:
22.03.2025
Mit Uns
23.03.2025
Mit Media
25.04.2025-27.04.2025
the land speaks to me of something shared: a prayer for ancestral rhythms

Past events:
11.12.2024
Mit Denken
12.12.2024
Mit Sprechen
06.02.2025
Mit Machen 

Rhythm travels, Rhythm migrates, Rhythm adapts, Rhythm resists. Rhythm is a vibration that synchronizes your heartbeat to the heartbeat of another. In this performance, Rhythm is the character of Jewish diaspora, reaching back in time to shared Jewish-Muslim worlds: worlds that were not defined by borders, nationalisms, or divisions that emerged with the advent of colonialism. Artist Anna Lublina and musician hoyah work with tap dance, extended vocal techniques, and live mixing to ask what the political and cultural history of diasporic Jewish rhythm (and its embodiment) can teach us in a time marked by polarization and violence.

Anna Lublina and their team are all artists trying to flee the confines of nationalism in the spirit of Doykeit.

On April 25th will be an additional performance as part of part of »Mit Wirkung. Eine Relaxed Veranstaltungsreihe über intensive Themen«

After a month of training, the 13 graduates of this years Dyke* High will be present their showcase and the hottest graduation you have ever been to. . .

Magic Dyke* is a masc Dyke* stripping group based in Berlin by and for lesbians, queer women, non-binary, trans, intersex and agender people showing masc stripping from non-cis masculinities and give butches, studs, bois, mascs and genderfuckers a stage to feel sexy in a world that tells them they aren’t. Since May 2022, Magic Dyke* creates sensational shows and provides a party that is a safe space for the SLINTA* (sapphic, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, transgender, agender) community in Berlin. A safe door policy that doesn’t judge based on appearance, queer SWer-led SLINTA*-only darkroom, sex-positive atmosphere and effort to make it as inclusive an environment as they can. Through them, people get to see butches, studs and other sapphics with masc expression being seen as sexy, creating a sense of euphoria in all those who identify with or are attracted to butchness.

In “Ibsen Gespenster”, the Markus&Markus theater collective portrayed Margot, an 81-year-old woman who planned her own death with a Swiss euthanasia organization, in 2015. The collective accompanied her in the last weeks of her life. Before and after the shootings, there was something to eat for refreshment.

The collective is now inviting people to these meals. What was served at the time will be served – along with the behind-the-scenes videos in a continuous loop. A cordial invitation to join us at the table!

Markus&Markus theatre collective is working together since 2010, consisting of Lara-Joy Bues, Katarina Eckold, Markus Schäfer and Markus Schmans. Together, the collective stands for an original form of political theatre: They portray protagonists through whom the treated topic moves closer to the audience. The work is characterized by intensive research that is captured on camera and in this way brought on stage.

Based on four Chinese artists and their mothers, the documentary theater piece explores their diaspora experiences and the dynamics of their feelings and perceptions of home. The tendency towards cultural de-globalization plays just as much a role as the uncertainty of mobility, the tension of multiple identities and the redefinition of diaspora in the contemporary context.

The Berlin-based collective Nomadic Minutes consists of the artists CAO Kefei, ZHOU Niannian, ZHANG Deng and LIU ShiYu. They were born in China in four different decades, live and work in Germany and are active in artistic creation and cultural exchange between the two continents. »To Mom, I want to…« is a co-creation with author and playwright Jiayun Zhuang, who lives in China and the USA.

这部纪录剧场作品以四位中国艺术家以及与她们母亲的关系为核心，探讨她们的离散经验以及对家园情感和认知的动态变化。这是一个无法回避的两难问题：一方面是世界公民对单一归属感的疏离，另一方面是她们对母亲和家园深层而又复杂的情感。该作品揭示了个人如何不断跨越语言、时间和空间的边界，如何应对信息不对称和社会文化差异。面对文化去全球化的趋势，作品进一步思考流动性的不确定性、多重身份的张力，以及重新定义“离散“在当代背景下的意义。 

柏林剧场组合游牧分钟 由艺术家曹克非、周念念、张灯和刘诗雨组成。她们分别出生于中国不同年代，活跃于中德两地的创作和文化交流。对妈妈，我想 … 是与居住在中国和美国的编剧兼戏剧构作庄稼昀的共同创作。 

The premiere on May 10 will be followed by an audience discussion.

Children from Leipzig, Zurich, Duisburg and Berlin talk (about) themselves and their lives – sometimes predictable, sometimes surprising, sometimes unadapted. The texts are spoken and acted by adults. The result is a polyphonic and idiosyncratic picture in which fiction and reality, past and future seem to dissolve into the present. An evening that tries to take children seriously and give them their own perspective.

vorschlag:hammer have been developing theater productions as a collective since 2009. In recent years, their performative narrative theater has opened up to a wide variety of aesthetic strategies, to visual-atmospheric or body-oriented works. They freely adapt existing material or develop research-based productions on ever new topics.

SYMPOSIUM is not a conference, nor an artist talk. SYMPOSIUM is a night of experimental lecture-performances and it thanks you for your attention. SYMPOSIUM welcomes professional and non-professional performers alike to mis- and re-purpose the slideshow as a medium — to share a niche interest, to seduce their crush, to dance with knowledge, to invent a new persona, to lose the plot, to move to tears, or to make something up. They each have 15 minutes. They may approach this with playful exuberance or intense seriousness.

Curated and stewarded by Miriam Woodburn, Dora Dubber and Nelya Ahmia, SYMPOSIUM emerges from their Berlin-based »Presentation Club«, an event series featuring 10-minute PowerPoint presentations on niche topics.

»Confronting the Shadow« by the Ukrainian director Tamara Trunova is a co-production between the Left Bank Theatre in Kyiv and the Performing Exiles Festival. The work is an attempt to represent and highlight the theme of absence.

Performing Exiles is an international and interdisciplinary festival produced by the Berliner Festspiele, that seeks to make diasporic lives in the city of Berlin visible and explore the contemporary meaning of exile. Performing Exiles will take place from 19 to 28 June 2025 at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, the HAU – Hebbel am Ufer and Ballhaus Ost.

In their new work »TRUEMMER«, Jan Koslowski and Marlene Kolatschny explore the idea of the broken, the leftover, the removal of remnants and loss together with the ensemble.

Jan Koslowski, director and author, and Marlene Kolatschny, dramaturge and author, have been friends and collaborators for many years.

Along the river Elbe the last ice age divided the European crow population into two evolutionary lines. On the anniversary of the melting of the glacier, raven and hooded crows rehearse a joint ceremony. The audience is caught in a field of hearsay, attributions and self-images. How can division be overcome?

Sebastian Mauksch & team develop theatre as a space of experience for children and young people. Through the interplay of acting, dance, text, visual arts, sound and technology, they explore social issues with the audience and invite them to try out their own attitudes and actions.