How do we move in public space?
How does public space move us?
Which rules are at play? And for whom?
In this interactive performance parcours with narrative elements, the audience will move through layers of urban hi/stories between the personal and the political. Crossing Berlin through several stations, that count as No-Go-Zones for some, we are all taking part in this play with social and spatial dynamics. When do we close ourselves, what helps us to open up? How to express embodied experience, and share it – beyond the boundaries of our specific social position, too? The Performance makes bitter and surprising realities visible, invites for focus shifts in perception, and opens up spaces of possibiliy and intervention.
I will be African, even if you want me to be German. And I will be German, even if my blackness does not suit you. I will go yet another step further to the farthest edge where my sisters – where my brothers stand where our freedom begins.
― May Ayim
Premiere | 06.06.2018 |
Production | Grupo Oito |
Venue | Streets of Berlin (Parcour from Kreuzberg to Lichtenberg) |
Funded by | Senate Department for Culture and Europe, presented in the frame of the Performing Arts Festival. |
Partners | Mime Centrum Berlin, LAFT Berlin |
Concept & Grupo Oito Artistic Director | Ricardo de Paula |
Creation & Performance | Laura Alonso, Martina Garbelli, Nasheeka Nedsreal, Natalie Riedelsheimer, Zé de Paiva, Miro Wallner |
Rehearsal & Movement Preparation | Natalie Riedelsheimer |
Concept & Dramaturgy | Nora Haakh |
Dramaturgical and Text Support | Marie Yan |
Technical Support | Zé de Paiva |
Costumes | Andreina Vieira dos Santos |
Production Management | Olga Ramirez Oferil |
Video Documentation | Kathleen Kunath |
Graphic Design | Miro Wallner |
Collaboration | Laura Sophia Becker, Zahra Birashk, Tamar Dolezal, Karl Hausel, Ellena Hüther, Ana Jordao, Olivia Nava, Telma Vieira Schmidt, Micaela Trigo, Melodie Yüce |
Texts by | May Ayim, Carlos Drumond De Andrade, Lou Zucker, and Grupo Oito |
Thanks to | Flora Kountouriotis, Uma Alonso de Paiva, Stéphane Bauer, Ursula Maria Berzborn, Alessandro Bovolenta, Susanne Chrudina, Stefano Ciardi, Frau Haspolat, Werner Heck, Sabine Köhncke, Ina Martens, Mª Luisa Miguel Garcia, Veit Rieber, Hajo Toppius, Micaela Trigo, Iury Trojaborg, Sascha-Silvester Wenzel. |
2018
July | Streets | Berlin