Tentacular Figurings invite you to an undisciplined, r/evolutionary performance.
Join us to encounter speculative embodiments of our common queer ancestors. Leave your »sapiens« at the checkroom and Meet Your Dancestors!

Tentacular Figurings Tentacular Figurings is an exploratory, multi-disciplinary performance collective. Core team are Mika Bangemann and Eddie N. von Seckendorff. Since 2021, they have been developing ambiguous bodies beyond the human in their performances. »Meet Your Dancestors!« is their first work at Ballhaus Ost.

»Queerokratia – Federal Conference for Self-Determination«. Queer and TIN* politics, activism and self-organization will come together here in Berlin. Beyond the boundaries of political forms of organization and action, we want to ask: What are progressive queer politics today? What roles do different actors play in this?

Program

30.5. / 17:00-18:30 / Kick Off at Ballhaus Ost
1.6.  /from 23:00/ Party at Aeve
2.6. / 12:00-15:00 / Conclusion with presentation of the results at Ballhaus Ost

2.6. / 17:00-21:00 / Exhibition of the event space created by Fadi Aljabour: a political-poetic spatial installation for the Queerocracy Conference in the Vierte Welt

Markus&Markus Theaterkollektiv

The performance written and directed by Rodrigó Balogh and Márton Illés narrates the societal changes in socialist and later in the free, democratic Hungary. It celebrates the unseen builders of Hungarian history. The production is inspired by real events and individuals, but leaves plenty of room for imagination. How do the many sacrifices affect their family and personal relationships?

Independent Theater Hungary has been operating since 2007. Our aim is to start a conversation about social issues that touch all of us, this way drawing attention to personal responsibility: what we, as individuals can do to improve the situation.

Heather Frasch + Parallax »Atmospheric Ghosts Lights II«
– Break-
Zacarias Maia »my homage to the new complexity«
»Two directions«
– Break –
Sophie Watzlawick + Marcello S. Busato »Où ces limites qui nous guettent, se mettent à vaciller« 

Labor Sonor – the series for experimental music, film and performance – presents Heather Frasch with the Norwegian trio Parallax – Sophie Watzlawick’s new 16mm film with live music by Marcello Busato – and the Basel percussionist and performer Zacarias Maia.

Labor Sonor – the series for experimental music, film and performance – presents the spectrum of current experimental forms beyond genre-specific definability – from real-time music to electronics, performance, audiovisual formats, conceptual music, new composed music and experimental pop.

»Trauma Kink« is a show about how early and adult traumas define our perception of intimacy and pleasure. The show opens the conversation about trauma in a natural way, through the stories of five artists who open up to the public in a performative approach that combines confessional elements with fiction and the hedonistic imaginary.
A show about trauma and hedonism, beyond dictionary definitions, but above all about the healing power of vulnerability.

Giuvlipen, Romania’s first Roma feminist theater company, creates bold, experimental and a highly performative art since 2014. Founded by Mihaela Dragan and Zita Moldovan, we spotlight silenced Roma voices through performative stories, seeking partners to amplify our impact. Giuvlipen offers groundbreaking Roma feminist theater that challenges social norms and amplifies marginalized voices through innovative, performative storytelling. 

In the audio installation, the voices of amateur footballers form an alternative narrative to highly commercialized professional soccer. While selected European Championship matches are played in the theater garden during a leisurely viewing, stories away from glamour and fame become audible in the changing room.

Hieu Hoang and Kristofer Gudmundsson work mainly as theater makers. They have always followed soccer and, conversely, soccer has always followed them. So persistently that they have resumed playing soccer as amateurs after a decade-long break. “Berliner Amateur*innen” is their first joint work at Ballhaus Ost, with which they have each been associated for over ten years.

Together with a licking tongue, a melodramatic curtain, a dog, three swans and a big sister, we set off in search of the oddities of F\*A\*M\*I\*L\*Y.

PINSKER+BERNHARDTund create performances for a young and cross-generational audience. With an absurd-fragmentary and playful-confrontational aesthetic, they project social phenomena and collective biographies into spatial arrangements and objects.