{"title": "Mata Leão", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23654", "category": "dance", "tags": ["society/racism", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Mata Leão is a dance performance and world premiere as part of The School of Self-Defense. Behind the piece are choreographers Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira, who, together with six performers, expand their choreography of self-defense developed since 2018. It asks how choreography can become a form of self-defense and confronts racist violence beyond fear or melancholy. Elements from funk and ballroom, humor and mockery open a poetic space in which body and imagination are negotiated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mata-leao-262/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/mata-leao/20261029-1830/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eab49078707f1581aa37bd69e264704b5a7955ba6c82988c70f5bc63e1ef3733-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": "few"}, {"start": "2026-11-01T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-20T21:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-21T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The School of Self-Defense", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23655", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance"], "description": "The Community Bar is an accompanying programme of the project The School of Self-Defense at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. 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The project itself includes the performance Mata Leão by choreographers Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira, which explores choreography as a form of self-defense.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-school-of-self-defense-32875/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/20261030-1600/", "image": ""}, {"title": "The School of Self-Defense", "start": "2026-10-29T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance", "stage"], "description": "\"The School of Self-Defense\" is a multi-day format of workshops, talks, performances, ballroom events and dance theatre taking place at various venues around Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. It is presented by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and curated by the Rio de Janeiro-based artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira, together with Sophie Yukiko and Marlene Engel. Its starting point is the two artists' practice, which examines how violence inscribes itself in bodies and how one can respond to it and resist through one's own movements. The School rethinks self-defence – not merely as a reaction but as a practice that can be shared in the body, in space and with one another, bringing together artists, thinkers and communities from Berlin, Brazil and beyond.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-school-of-self-defense-73466/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Premierenparty Mata Leão", "start": "2026-10-29T21:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["music/electronic/techno"], "description": "The “Premierenparty Mata Leão” is a party at Roter Salon featuring two Brazilian acts. 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Its themes are the hierarchy between those who look and those who are looked at, photography as an instrument of late colonialism, and the question of who controls the eye – the artificial cyclops.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/cyclops-68668/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32cc88c4ef7672870f776cd4fc5556d1863b231637030397deabfdc8fca99c6d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Metaxy - Leonis Works x Norman Nodge", "start": "2026-10-30T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Atelier Gardens Berlin", "address": "Oberlandstraße 26–35 12099 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://jungesfeld.de/2025/10/15/sinnich/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["music/electronic", "society/philosophy", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Metaxy is an immersive dance performance loosely inspired by Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. 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Contemporary dance, electronic music, light and special effects let these forces collide, unravel and ultimately search for a state of balance, and an immersive exhibition extends the world of the piece before and after the performance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/metaxy-leonis-works-x-norman-nodge-30416/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Uprising Galore Ball", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "24.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23647", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["dance/ballroom"], "description": "The Uprising Galore Ball is a ballroom event on the Große Bühne of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, where participants from Berlin, Brazil and Europe compete in categories such as Realness, Runway and Performance for a trophy. It is presented by Sophie Yukiko aka Yukiko Revlon and Wallace Ferreira aka Patfudyda Basquiat, in English, with an introductory conversation between André Lepecki and Bafta Sarbo. Part of the School of Self-Defense festival, the ball turns to the culture of protest, exploring questions of visibility, belonging and self-determination. Ballroom becomes visible as a social practice: a culture that embodies its history and collectively designs its future.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-uprising-galore-ball-271/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c32b2b10c74d318578b593c5e8b901fd1bb964fdfa2284396f285e6c01823c02-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Metaxy", "start": "2026-10-30T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Atelier Gardens Campus", "address": "Oberlandstraße 26-35, 12099 Berlin, Germany", "price": "39", "price_from": "39.00", "price_to": "39.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["music/electronic", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Metaxy is an immersive dance performance loosely inspired by Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, combining contemporary dance with electronic music, light, special effects and video projections. It is created by Renato De Leon/Leonis Works, who lead concept and artistic direction, with music selected and mixed live by Berghain resident DJ Norman Nodge. The piece follows a central figure caught between the Apollonian world of order and discipline and the Dionysian world of emotion, desire and freedom, searching for balance. An immersive exhibition extends the world of the piece and can be experienced before and after the performance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/metaxy-2255/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2c828a1e7a0b950c692ff03a1d331c2381c2774e38e09b24ede4d5582e6b286d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NEW TECHNIQUES XVII: Naledi Majola", "start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sophiensæle", "address": "Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "A showing performance as part of the Sophiensæle residency programme NEW TECHNIQUES, taking place in the Hochzeitssaal. South African choreographer and performer Naledi Majola, who lives in Berlin, is developing a group performance practice with Sarhaly aka Goldie, Chiyedza Mukada and musician and vocal teacher Lindiwe Pale, guided by the question \"How do we sing through the body?\". The research is inspired by the history of Black South African musicians during apartheid who lived in exile in the West, and translates musical principles such as rhythm, call-and-response and repetition into movement and voice research. Duration: 1h 30 min., free admission with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/new-techniques-xvii-naledi-majola-31729/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/new-techniques-xvii-naledi-majola", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a440795b9712d0787bb6a31740f1e6d63005b3ad80bc2d873677249515b1740-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Puma Camillê: A Workshop about Capoeira History", "start": "2026-10-30T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23640", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance"], "description": "A workshop titled “Puma Camillê: A Workshop about Capoeira History”, part of “The School of Self-Defense”, held in English. It is led by Puma Camillê, an artist, activist, South American Princess of the House of Basquiat and founder of the movement Capoeira Pra Todxs. In her practice CapoeiraVogue she combines Capoeira and Voguing, two cultural forms born from experiences of resistance, community and self-assertion. The workshop brings the Ginga and Mandinga of Capoeira together with the lines, poses and expressiveness of Vogue, thinking of movement as a form of knowledge, freedom and collective experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/puma-camille-a-workshop-about-capoeira-history-266/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/20261030-1500/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cdbe4340aad27d2358f6c6e421bcb811e97679a43d8dee507ad428dc4957db3f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ana Pi", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "KW Institute for Contemporary Art", "address": "Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://kw-shop.visitate.net/de/tickets/2041", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance"], "description": "'NoirBLUE – side B' is an in-situ solo performance taking place in the KW Institute for Contemporary Art's attic. Brazilian choreographer and artist Ana Pi moves there between concepts of uprootedness, belonging, memory, colours and everyday gestures, starting from healing processes and the radical imagination of dance of the Transatlantic African Diaspora. It grew out of an etymological observation that some historical languages have no word for 'blue' and even reject the word for 'black', from which the artist imagines an Atlantic journey between the blackness of skin and ultramarine blue pigment to undermine structures of invisibility. At the KW, choreography and black light alter the perception of the body, while the vinyl soundscape rooted in dub music by Jideh High Elements carries the gestures into a space of timeless permanence – amid KOO JEONG A's installation [ SEVEN STARS ], made of phosphorescent paintings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ana-pi-33809/", "official_url": "https://www.kw-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/ana-pi-noirblue-side-b", "image": "https://noky.io/images/277d713c425931bc8757b82bdb6a914fb39c63b634f493422a94e515b5f22666-2000.webp"}, {"title": "BEYOND LINES Tanzperformance zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tränenpalast", "address": "Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free admission; registration required / Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://app.cituro.com/booking/3221113?presetService=11f1bb401d37e788bf1b918037f4ae89", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "BEYOND LINES is a site-specific dance performance staged for Berlin Freedom Week. Behind the project are choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which has combined professional dance production with socio-cultural practice since 2003, together with the Haus der Geschichte Foundation at the Tränenpalast. The performance deals with crossing borders: departure, waiting, fear and hope, as well as leaving behind home, language and the familiar. In the Tränenpalast, a place of farewell, control and transition, choreographic images of resistance, loss and change emerge, asking which borders people had and still have to overcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-lines-tanzperformance-zur-berlin-freedom-week-7137/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01d7f31a0635db0e4343515ffb94a51dc3b5f4334e7f7a9b0eeddd5c51ec88dd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Batida Baile", "start": "2026-11-07T22:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Panke", "address": "Gerichtstraße 23, 13347 Berlin", "price": "15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["music/electronic/bass-music"], "description": "Batida Baile is a night of live, hybrid and DJ sets of global dance and club music, connecting journeys of sound between Abya Yala, the Caribbean and Africa. Behind the event are several international artists making their Berlin debut: Lua Preta, a Polish-Angolan duo of vocalist and MC Ms. Gia and producer Mentalcut, bring a frenetic mixture of futuristic electronic music and African genres. They are joined by Seattle duo Lucha Luna mixing latin percussion, heavy bass and punk vocals, Catu Diosis with her afro-inspired bass music, Berlin-based Cajoux from Mozambique, and Maldita Vaina with high-energy Caribbean Club sounds. Dancing is inevitable.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/batida-baile-21293/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/28c75c7b9bb0bf0705d37148657c7585ce05ed9b4fd324b40642a4a896bdc665-2000.webp"}, {"title": "VIDEOSTATION „Analivia Cordeiro. Computer Dance“", "start": "2026-10-03T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien", "address": "", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "dance"], "description": "The VIDEOSTATION „Analivia Cordeiro. Computer Dance“ makes videos and films accessible over an extended period in the KinoKiosk at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. It brings together three early video dance works by the Brazilian artist Analivia Cordeiro, who in the 1970s used a computer she programmed herself to capture movement and generate choreographies for the dancers and the TV video team. The exhibition is a cooperation between Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and attaque[e]r le visible, curated by Lawinia Rate. Two performances by Daniela Georgieva and Gissauro, inspired by Cordeiro's choreographies, accompany the show.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/videostation-analivia-cordeiro-computer-dance-9369/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/480d0c7c9fccab89550ec8bee9b67daf2ce3678a60497df082d92cbf896efd23-2000.webp"}, {"title": "There is a Table in this House", "start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Pay what you can (3/5/10/15/20/25)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/tanzfabrikberlin/this-house/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance", "society/politics"], "description": "\"There is a Table in this House\" is a choreo-performance presented as part of the Shape Festival. It examines the ethical and political aspects of gathering, especially in times of upheaval. The work combines embodied performance, participatory installation and communal dialogue, creating a space of radical care and political responsibility. It was conceived and is performed by hn. lyonga, with thanks to Markus Posse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/there-is-a-table-in-this-house-10007/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/3486", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4a81fb9d36c11aabeac467c1b1981388e56ab4339f7367e7bc3aac57b3f01a99-1200.webp"}, {"title": "BEYOND LINES", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tränenpalast", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free admission; registration required / Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "dance", "tags": ["history/cold-war", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "BEYOND LINES is a site-specific dance performance at the Tränenpalast, a significant Berlin memorial site and former border crossing. Behind the project are choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which since 2003 has combined professional dance production with sociocultural practice; it is realised jointly with the Haus der Geschichte Foundation as part of Berlin Freedom Week. The performance explores crossing borders: departure, waiting, fear and hope, leaving behind homeland and the familiar, and the courage to step into the unknown. At this place of farewell and transition, choreographic images of resistance, loss and change emerge, inviting the audience to experience the Tränenpalast as a place of remembrance and of new encounters.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-lines-30497/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance", "image": ""}]}