A person trains. A machine steers. Together they prepare for their first cycling race. In this durational training performance, the performer follows an algorithmically generated load structure. What happens when the body no longer functions according to feeling, but according to data sets? When the decision about pace, rest and exertion is no longer made by humans – but is controlled by artificial intelligence? Every day, Ballhaus Ost becomes a training center, exhaustion becomes performance.
Martin Schnippa was born in Annaberg-Buchholz, grew up in Weimar and studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice (diploma) in Hildesheim. Today, Martin works as a performer, actor, artistic director and production manager for national and international film, television, advertising and theater productions, and in his work he repeatedly explores the interface between body, sport and theatricality.
»Pump« is the beginning of the evening, and maybe of a party. A warm-up, a ritual, a rehearsal of strength. Between choreography and bodybuilding, two performers explore muscle not as domination, but as relation—a medium of touch, support, repetition. They lift and pose, strain and hold, not to perfect a body, but to complicate what strength can mean. Between drag and discipline, spectacle and slowness, it opens a space for shared exertion. Posing becomes gesture, becomes form, becomes commemoration, becomes shared joy.
»Pump« is a project evolved through the participation of Rahel Crawford Barra, Nattan Dobkin, Emil Maria Ertl, Sarah Leghissa, and Simon van Saarloos, and will be performed by Rahel and Nattan in this iteration.
The badminton net is stretched in the sports hall. The court is marked out. The shuttlecocks are provided. 60-minute time slots, bookable for everyone.
The sports hall is open. There are mats, there are balls, there is training equipment. An open sports room for everyone to play, work out or hang out.
Homophobic, sexist and racist banter is commonplace in darts. However, this »culture« doesn’t stop at the regulars’ table in the pub, but permeates the structures of the Berlin darts scene. A discussion about what can be done to make the sport of darts more democratic and diverse. With stories and case studies that are as tragic as they are unbelievable.
The ADV Zebras Berlin e.V. is the first anti-fascist darts club in Berlin. Its members are democratically organized and are committed to open-mindedness and diversity in the sport of darts.
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The ADV Zebras dartistas are holding a beginners’ workshop for all those who want to learn how to throw their darts properly.
The ADV Zebras Berlin e.V. is the first anti-fascist darts club in Berlin. The members are democratically organized and are committed to open-mindedness and diversity in the sport of darts.
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Streetball Team Berlin is organizing a tournament in the Sportsaal Ost. The game is played 3 against 3 up to 12 points or 10 minutes. There are no referees and the focus is on fair play. We play for a first place for each tournament. Depending on the participating teams, we divide into categories such as mixed, men’s or youth.
Registration here.
The Streetball Team of the Gesellschaft für Sport- und Jugendsozialarbeit (GSJ) is a mobile project that travels all over Berlin to spread the good news of the orange ball and the spirit of togetherness. The team runs various free basketball/streetball practice sessions for children and young adults, organizes accessible fun tournaments and hosts the Streetball Nights and the Streetball Challenge Berlin. Through sports-oriented youth social work, the team helps young people to organize themselves and promotes values such as fair play and voluntary commitment. The project cooperates with sports clubs, schools, public and independent organizations.
The sports edition of the performance »On Horses« sends powerful narratives into the race. Two performers and a life-size wooden horse go all out between pony farm and hard dressage. It’s about the life and death of horses as sports equipment, about recreational fun and an interspecies (competitive) battle.
Eva Hintermaier | Simon Kalus are a transdisciplinary team at the interface of performance, installation and literature.
Samuel Hertz composes a series of playlists, atmospheres, background sounds and sound installations that inhabit and fill the multipurpose spaces of Sportsfest. These sound installations also include live streaming of sound from tournament events as well as incorporating interactivity on the parts of audiences and participants alike. They play with the sound associations of both sporting events proper, as well as the more hidden spaces within which they occur: locker rooms, loud gyms, training rooms and loud sports bars all influence the sound design and the ways in which these atmosphere both challenge and accept these unique environments.
Samuel Hertz is a sound artist and researcher who works with sound-sensing networks of environmental science research through multimedia frames including immersive electronic music, interstellar radio transmissions, deep sea broadcasts, and doom metal concerts.
Jasmin and Merle perform a 2-man artistic cycling freestyle. The program is divided into a part on two wheels and on one wheel. In the competition, they have five minutes to present their routine in front of a judging panel. The Spandauer Radsportverein 1891 e.V. is a club for indoor cycling (artistic cycling and unicycle freestyle). Training is offered up to 5 days a week in a sports hall in Spandau. The groups are mixed-age. Children and adults alike enjoy taking part.
