AfroPolitan Berlin – Performance Panorama Edition 1.5 (2023)

by Malika Lamwersiek

What is and has been here before? I came here to ask what remained in the air, the ground and my body.

Inspired by Octavia Butlers book “dawn” Malika brings a new character to life: a hybrid form between ooloi and human that finds itself on an unknown ground. 

It senses and alters the unseen inside and around it.  

The sound is part of the imaginarie process and is produced with and by DJ and producer ITSWHY. 

Photo by Libert Bucher

by Luciano & Rayne

“All things Considered// Bare Witness or Bottoms up” desires to connect deeply with the audience on both emotional and intellectual levels. By pushing artistic boundaries and aiming to leave lasting impressions, “All things Considered// Bare Witness or Bottoms up” seeks to resonate harmoniously with the audience, sparking meaningful conversations and engagement by inviting them to witness a fully sensorial experience. The core of this project is rooted in the exploration of identity, connection, and nuanced masculinity. This idea is explored through a multidisciplinary approach fusing dance, improvisation, and theatre in a unique collaboration between artists.

by Zoé-Afan Strasser

“Merrangé” is a solo work that seeks to explore the aesthetic code of black bodies in ballet.

Both the history of origin of ballet with its invisibilization of certain groups and the deeply rooted and systematic exclusion in this artform, as well as the image of the white, fragile and “pure” ballet fairy and the stereotypical associations of black dancers’ bodies in performance that stand in contrast to it, form the thematic background of this project. The interwoven and inner tearing web of an absurd love for classical ballet, the obsession and longing of wanting to fit into something inorganic, and the oppressive ever-present burden of clear aesthetic exclusion, forms the driving force for the development of the dance atmosphere in this performance.
The feeling of being less entitled to exist in the space of ballet is a key to exploring potential tensions within movement developments.

Photo by Teresa Marenzi