Bulimia literally means “bull hunger”, so Cy Linke throws themself and their inner bulls into the arena. Between the Pope and Madonna, as bullfighter and bull, Linke asks whether eating disorders* are protests against binary or sexist structures or how these structures produce eating disorders*?
Author, director, performer and bodyworker Cy Linke studied Philosophie-Künste-Medien in Hildesheim, directing at the HfMT and the ZHdK & believes in the power of vulnerability. Parallel to »Stierhunger«, Linke asks in »Sex und Kartoffeln« at the Theater Magdeburg how sexualities can be decolonized.
Content Note: Addressing eating disorders* and sexualized violence
In the piece, Cy Linke uses the terms “eating disorders” and “sick” to take an intermediate step, as an ex-sufferer of bulimia and other eating disorders, in the self-appropriation of these foreign terms, towards softening the binary of “healthy” and “sick” in the long term.
Acoustic installative processes in holey darkness. Enigmatic figures write themselves with an archaic script through dreams whose personnel they once were. A reduced web following lush dream logic.
The Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop sees itself as co-authors of the collaborative productions. In years of collaboration with Georg Nussbaumer, new forms of experimental music theater are explored. A place that has the power to imagine other futures.
N O T E: The performances are not barrier-free, as the audience moves through the different floors of the house on their own initiative after dark. Visitors with visual impairments can register for a guided performance at the box office up to 15 minutes before the performance begins.
Whirlpools of packaging waste circulate in the ocean. Feminine sharks glow. Nimble hands fold oversize origami. Ropes become noodles, intestines, ghost nets. Care-Pas de Deux and Slow-food Porn meet at the wok campfire of a Thai megacity. In a dance performance, the visual cosmos of a glutamate-soaked fast food world is unleashed. From a Eurocentric point of view, hard-to-digest realities of life ritually lead into absurd waters.
Dasniya Sommer seeks connections between digestion, artificiality and culture with Michael Schumacher of the inclusive ensemble Meine Damen und Herren, MMA performer Fungi Fung, eco-feminist dancer Tara Jade Samaya and exception dancer Yui Kawaguchi. Through reflections on hydrofeminism and ‘Bodies of Water’, this creates an oscillating projection surface for a critical engagement with anti-Asian racism.
Haus Sommer is the network label of dancer and choreographer Dasniya Sommer. In changing collaborations with other artists, she explores and expands the formal language of classical ballet under the influence of shibari, body art and contemporary performance art.
Content Note
The play addresses anti-Asian racism. Restraint techniques are used on stage.
Following the performance on 13.5. the fifth part of »Die Suche nach der Ur-Oper« by Das Helmi will take place at the bar.
We die alone. We bury together. A participatory performance that explores the political and theatrical nature of the funeral ritual and deconstructs its settled mechanism. A ritual for which it is impossible to be fully prepared, but during this rehearsal any last wish can be fulfilled.
Natasha Borenko – a Siberian-born fluid theater maker, queer feminist migrant artist, who sees participatory art as a tool to deconstruct the system and rehearse the change. She develops this piece in collaboration with cross-cultural interdisciplinary artists.
Andrea Neumann has been playing the same instrument for 20 years: a self-made piano frame without a keyboard. For »Tossed Sounds« three pieces were written for the composer and musician, by performer Antonia Baehr, dancer Fernanda Farah and Andrea Neumann herself. On one condition: The instrument is absent from the stage. What remains of a musician without her instrument? What traces does it leave behind? What can be heard?
As part of »Introducing…«at Performing Arts Festival 2023
How can an archive come alive? Can an archive become a time hole through which we can climb into new futures? Between a futuristic video world and car tires, Salma Said and Miriam Coretta Schulte explore the subversive video archive “858” of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and the potential of choreographic mnemonic techniques.
N O T E: The show deals with topic of violence.
Salma Said and Miriam Coretta Schulte are partners in crime, friendship and performance. Since 2018, the duo has been developing an artistic practice that combines situational knowledge of their different backgrounds and contexts, a desire to experiment with activism and political issues. »behind your eyeballs« is their first joint project. »Court Fantasies« follows and will premiere in May 2023.
Bacteria live almost everywhere. In »Holobiontinnen« two performers make contact with the bacteria on their bodies and beyond. A network of performers, audience, microorganisms and machines emerges.
Eva Hintermaier / Simon Kalus are a transdisciplinary team at the intersection of performance, literature and installation. They are interested in human-nature relationships and interweavings of biological with aesthetic phenomena.
N O T E: Audio description is an integral part of all performances.
Accompanying the performances are tactile tours aimed at visually impaired people. They are also open to the public. The tactile tours make it possible to get to know the stage space, the equipment and the performers in advance. The tours are led by Sebastian Schulze and Simon Kalus. The meeting point is always 1.5 hours before the performance in the foyer.
The 24-hour happening traces the highly developed emotional system of dolphins. What would happen if we were able to transform our linear experience of time and space into a 5-dimensional vortex?
18:00 Check In / Worldbuilding
20:00 Universe
21:00 Climax / Collapse of the Universe
23:00 Food / Assimilation
0:00 GHOSTs
3:00 Trance / INK*
5:00 3rd Pill / Revenges of Nymph
7:00 Frequencies of Dreams
DOORS CLOSED
10:00 Promenade / Repeat repeat until its in your Bones
11:00 Futureself / INK*
13:00 Backwards Burning / INK*
14:00 Trance Crying Ritual / INK*
15:00 Wetness Ritual / Creating the Ocean
17:00 Bleed out
*For more info and booking options please contact @tattoos.by.pauli // tattoos.by.pauli@gmail.com or decide on the spot
Heinrich Horwitz and the fluid collective consists of Rosa Wernecke, Magdalena Emmerig, Annett Hardegen and various performers. The group has been working together in different constellations since 2016 and is concerned with the idea of constantly transforming the theater space as a utopian practice.
»Big Bangs & Black Holes« is a digital double-bill by Queer performance collective ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS. »Dogs of Love« and »We Come With Nothing«, created initially as stage works, are shown side-by-side for the first time, reimagined for film and animated with poetic imagery.
»Dogs of Love« (60′) investigates the intimate connection between two people. Starting with a real-life love story, two lovers run in opposite directions through time and space, through pasts and futures populated with real and imagined stories of Queer togetherness. Footsteps echo as we dive deep into togetherness, loneliness, crisis, and intimacy. Can we ever really leave someone we have been in love with?
»We Come With Nothing« (35′) explores the dark side of entanglement. Inspired by the form of Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘constellation novels’ and ghost stories, it conjures a shadow-world of broken connections. What happens when a relationship ends in estrangement? What is this ‘nothing’ we are left with? What do we discover when we stare into this black hole?
The films will be available online from June 19 through June 30, 2023.
Since 2012, Queer performance collective ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS — Chris Gylee and Aslan — have worked in the fertile ground between disciplines, combining theatre, film, choreography and research. The two performers deploy (auto)biographical narrative as well as meticulous research on Queer life realities for their poetic works. Most recently at Ballhaus Ost they showed »Karelia. A Queer Forest Fantasy in Two Parts«, and the film adaptation »The Crossing«. The piece »Dogs of Love« was premiered in 2019.
A site-specific AudioDate for one spectator and forest.
Spring Time is Dating Time! But if Parship, Grindr and LoveScout24 are not enough for you: »Dating a Forest« comes to Berlin! In times of climate crisis – just you and the forest, for two in the public space around the Ballhaus Ost. Book your dating slot – now!
Janna Pinsker and Wicki Bernhardt combine the lines of post-dramatic theater, choreography and performance for a young and intergenerational audience in their work. With an absurd-fragmentary and playful-confrontational aesthetic, they negotiate themes such as shame, bodily change, climate crisis or the power of couple relationships.
A T T E N T I O N : some slots are not barrier-free! Please contact us if necessary by mail to info @ ballhausost.de
