In »Palace of Ash and Rain«, Queer performance collective ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS attempt to imagine a Queer Utopia: post capitalist, post trauma, post addiction, post sadness, post joy — an After to the mess that came Before. Palace of Ash and Rain is the fifth chapter of »With Forests in Our Mouths«.
 
Queer performance collective ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS make multidisciplinary performance works, often using the Queer constructed language Damiá as an artistic tool. In 2023, they left Berlin for a new home at the edge of the forest in North Karelia, Finland.

Tired of the male gaze in late night shows? Join Nyio Kunt for a fun, chaotic Late Night Show with interviews of drag performers sharing their journeys, dazzling performances, and a lively DJ set. Dance, mingle, and celebrate the local drag community!
 

By and with niyo kunt, Christina Corpse, Valentino Lacrimosa, Vujo, Lawunda Richardson, Ivul, Monty Ray + Josiane

In her monologue, Fatima Çalışkan is fascinated by the superficiality of pop-cultural male literature of the ninties and finds her feminist answer by babbling. Inspired by the novel »Faserland«, she scrutinises the pop-cultural zeitgeist from a female, post-migrant perspective and reviews her work in the literary quartet.
 
In her transdisciplinary work, Fatima Çalışkan develops political positions on biography and zeitgeist with a humorous and satirical approach. For the monologue »Faserland-Boys and I«, she draws on her own experiences of being pigeonholed by people into inappropriate orientalised categories and now turns the tables with relish.

In »Gargoyles«, the narratives of evil women are combined with the grotesque gargoyles from the Gothic period. Half gargoyle, half theatrical figure, the villains Medea and Lady Macbeth awaken from their physical and metaphorical petrifaction.
 

Anne Welenc celebrated her debut as an author and director with »QUEENS« in 2023. Her works are based on critical feminist research into classic theatre material, which she expands with impulses from related performing arts and elements of pop and club culture.

Yasmine Yahiatène follows in the footsteps of her father Ahmed: his Kabyle roots, his exile to France, the loss of his mother tongue. But also the final of the ’98 World Cup, the two goals scored by Zidane. And, between these two shores, alcohol – like a bad remedy for this disintegrating past.

Yasmine Yahiatène and her creative team have co-authored »La Fracture«, a world premiere that is as discreet as it is disturbing. In a subtle game of oral evocations and visual overlays, she slips into the gaps in her family history and transforms the stage into a place of investigation and reparation.

As part of the NO LIMITS – Disability & Performing Arts Festival 2024

The »School of Lovers« is a sensitive, empowering and genre-bending art experience on the subject of love and intimacy for people with and without disabilities.

NOTE :
There are moments with loud noises.

The performance is partly interactive.

The audience is addressed directly and invited to do small exercises (breathing, brief touches). No one is forced to participate.

The audience will be asked to take off their shoes to enter the stage.

As part of the NO LIMITS – Disability & Performing Arts Festival 2024

 
Laura Murphy dares to perform a wild balancing act between new circus, queer-feminist stand-up comedy, trash and poetic intimacy in her equally personal and provocative solo show.

Anna Berndtson and Yingmei Duan connect the festival venues spread across the city – stage space and public space, indoor space and outdoor space – with ten live performances they have developed especially for NO LIMITS. »Harmony Within the Noise« is a collaborative series of performances that blur the boundaries between art and everyday life and take the audience on a journey of perception. Various media stimulate the audience’s senses and are intended to open up new perspectives.

 
The two performance artists studied fine art with Marina Abramović at the HBK Braunschweig. Over the past twenty years, they have been active both individually and in numerous collaborations. They focus their energy and creativity on performance art, with a variety of works in Germany and abroad.

The evening takes you into a world between light and shadow. Together with the performers of Hysterisches Globusgefühl, the audience enters a shady, shimmering realm in the Ballhaus Ost auditorium and explores the gray areas of shadow theater.

The performance collective Hysterisches Globusgefühl (Berlin/Vienna) are wholeheartedly and in solidarity with their artistic work against the heteronormative patriarchy and develop utopias for an anti-racist, classless, queerfeminist and respectful future. At the centre of their work is the question of conscious action, political interaction and global malaise. They turn the streets into a theatre stage and the theatre into a stage for political debate. Driven by the search for alternative possibilities, they deal with forms of protest, the aesthetics of subcultures and questions of social coexistence. https://hysterischesglobusgefuehl.wordpress.com/