# Ana Pi / NA MATA LAB: Joy is Not a Metaphor

Ana Pi / NA MATA LAB: Joy is Not a Metaphor at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Thursday 29 October 2026, 16:00.

- Price: 15 €
- Venue: Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin
- With: Ana Pi
- Get tickets: https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/bestseatselect?eventId=23637
- Go to page: https://rausgegangen.de/events/ana-pi-na-mata-lab-joy-is-not-a-metaphor-0/

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A dance workshop as part of The School of Self-Defense, offering insight into Ana Pi's ongoing research CORPO FIRME: peripheral dances, sacred gesture. The Brazilian choreographer engages with movement practices of the African diaspora in the transatlantic space. At its core is the question of which forms of knowledge, memory and freedom are stored in bodies, and how dance can make them more visible again. Through exercises in rhythm, presence, tension and listening, individual and collective choreographic situations emerge between improvisation and composition.

## Dates

- Thursday 29 October 16:00 — Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Written by a model, sources: [rausgegangen.de](https://rausgegangen.de/events/ana-pi-na-mata-lab-joy-is-not-a-metaphor-0/)

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