The Maulwerkers present brand new pieces, freshly written for them, show you the special sounds they have developed and perfected over the years and teach you these extended techniques. Together we will make the Ballhaus Ost ring with our bubbling, shouting, warbling, hissing and much more!
The Maulwerkers are a vocal ensemble, music performers, music theater makers and a collective of composers. They are specialists in the intersections of music and theater, music and language, in the interpenetration of music and space, of sound and silence.
At SCHRUMPF! Berlin ensembles present their current productions – in family format. New art forms are discovered, places explored, movements tried out, sounds listened to – and everyone can join in.
Daniella Strasfogel is a violinist, performer and facilitator in Berlin. She is a founding member of the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop in Berlin and founded LOUDsoft in 2018, out of the impulse to create multidimensional musical experiences for and with families.
. . . in the dark, starry sky in the middle of the sea — still mirroring water — I cannot tell where the line is between sea and sky; looking into my own eyes, I see both reality and fantasy reflecting back at me . . .
I have met several selves of mine: so I am never alone; I’m not only one thing, I’m not only my body. I am a question mark. »ANAL.IZANDO« exists within this ____?____ as a continuous transformation through non-binary figures — mythological, technological, corporal and non-corporal, — as projections of my utopian consciouses. Flowing through a constant state of becoming, it oscillates in an ecstasy of multi-layered selves. This solo performance outlines the complex and paradoxical endeavour of embracing a constant state of change, embracing reflection, shadow, ecstasy, and my question mark, while re-writing pleasure into the stories we tell about transformation and becoming.
ronald berger is a non-binary dancer and performer from Costa Rica based in Berlin. Their connection to nature and its performative qualities influenced ronald. The conflict between their sexuality and the strong catholic and chauvinist context of their natal country, inspires debates, analysis and questions regarding social behavior.
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The play explores themes of sexuality, among other things, and includes depictions of nudity.
Stroboscopic effects are used in this performance.
»Planet Lubunya« is a queer sci-fi journey into space with multidisciplinary performative practices and live music. It is a critical journey into space searching for ultimate utopia while using humor as a vehicel.
The project was initiated by İrem Aydın (Berlin) and Efe Durmaz (İstanbul) in 2020 as a format for digital solidarity between queer people in Turkey and Germany. It now takes off as a theater production with (mainly) Berlin based artists and is heading towards interstellar collaborations with artists from a multitude of places.
At the annual small town folk festival, two former best friends meet again after a long radio silence. Anna’s career as a racer has taken off in the meantime and Milena is in the middle of her quarterlife crisis. Between Gasoline Queen choices and BFF memories, they try to revive their relationship and face their life choices.
A queer musical about friendship, Y2K nostalgia, the absurdity of heteronormative traditions and everyday competitive culture.
cmd+c was founded by the couple Marina Prados and Paula Knüpling with the intention to create queer structures in front of and behind the stage and to deal with them in a fair, respectful and creative way. Works have already been seen at Volksbühne, Schaubude and Ballhaus Ost, most recently »Ladybitch – ein Theaterabend über den Untergang Franz Kramers«
Six performers exchange their biographies with each other. Biographies as texts and postures that are stored in our bodies. A jaw dances the posture choreo of the will to rise, a back wheel has internalized the perfect turn of shame. Every biography is a singular narrative that never belongs to us alone.
The performance collective SEE! (SE Struck, Alexandra Knieps) from Cologne has been developing hybrid performance formats since 2005, staging open networks with a self-sufficient formal language that always addresses communalization and participation on theater stages and in urban social contexts. They were at Ballhaus Ost for the first time in 2018 with »ok panik« and most recently presented the dance solo »Sonderbare IRRE«, which was already their third invitation to the theater festival FAVORITEN.
“Who actually says what is sick – and what is healthy? As gods in white, the vorschlag:hammer collective and Theater Hora question supposed certainties of the health system – and have a lot of fun in the process.” (Valeria Heintges, nachtkritik.de)
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The performance takes place with the auditorium darkened and the topics of hospital, surgery and death are discussed.
Nominated for the 2021 National Dance Awards the intimate performance is a peep into the shiny and sweaty push pull of living with shame while bursting with pride.
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The play is recommended for audiences 16 and older. In it there are depictions of kink experiences, suffocation, humiliation, dominant behavior and explicit sexuality and language, and feelings of strangeness are described. Part of the performance is loud noises, flashing lights and sexy people with disabilities.
If the climate and corona crises make us aware of our fragility, Sebastian Blasius and his accomplices experiment in five prototypical etudes with a theater model that starts from precisely these experiences: What are the potentials of a ‘theater of the unsovereign’?
The director, choreographer and theater scholar Sebastian Blasius realizes projects at the interface of performing, visual and acoustic arts. At Ballhaus Ost, he most recently showed »Die Räuber der Geschichte«.
On Nov. 25, 2022, following the performance, there will be a conversation with the team, »Vom Versuch, Theater von Fragilität ausgehend zu denken,« moderated by Dr. Marcus Quent (University of the Arts, Berlin).
A film whose image does not show itself. An exhibition whose context is missing. A song without artists. A piece within a piece without a piece. Identities that flush down the toilet. »Sexy Straight White People« is a theatrical performance about the power of gender identities. vT.corp challenge habits of seeing, living and sexing to question the lifestyles and loves of the heteronormative mainstream.
Hannah Müller and Max Gadow are a sexy white artist couple from Hamburg. Known as virtuellestheater since 2015 and merged into vT.corp at the beginning of 2020, they are already a well-established team at Ballhaus Ost. Most recently, they invited friends to spend time with them as part of “It’s about time”. Very close to the zeitgeist and extremely adept at transforming between the arts, their performances form hybrids of video art, performing arts, music and exhibition.
13 queer artists are developing a collection of multi-media artworks – an EP, a book, films, an online archive, and a live event – in response to the queer language Damiá and the political and artistic questions it raises.
The work is available digitally via a website archive – www.queertongue.com – and in limited edition analog formats. On December 02, 2022, the EP will be released online.
