{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sophiensæle", "address": "Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Performance Projekt - Sensing towards speech", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Regular: 250€ / reduced: 230€ / professional dancers: 205€; Early Bird until 11.10.2026: 230€ / redu", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/improvisation"], "description": "\"Sensing towards speech\" is a performance project drawing on somatic practices, guided improvisation, and movement research, opening a space for exploration, intuition, and embodied listening. The project is led by Maddi Fuente Ubani, a Basque interdisciplinary artist. At its core is instant composition, a practice in which research becomes performance and stories, meanings, and relationships unfold in real time. Movement, voice, sound, presence, time, and space are explored as living elements of composition, with speech itself becoming another performative material.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/performance-projekt-sensing-towards-speech-73296/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/en/events/3476", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9467b0aa3913ebf4c6afc098315ceea922ec54682e0524eb0a937600fd71f98b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "ANCXSTRAL FREQUENCIES: Re-Rootings - Weaving Sonic Histories of the Global South", "start": "2026-10-31T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "20nine30", "address": "Paul-Linke Ufer 29-30 10999, Berlin,Germany", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://jungesfeld.de/2025/10/15/sinnich/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/electronic/experimental-electronic", "history/colonialism", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "ANCXSTRAL FREQUENCIES: Re-Rootings - Weaving Sonic Histories of the Global South is a series of live ritual performances. It is created by the artists RUSNAM and Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro and combines experimental sound art, historical sound recordings, movement and participatory rituals. The project brings suppressed musical histories, feminist memory and decolonial perspectives into sound and experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ancxstral-frequencies-re-rootings-weaving-sonic-histories-of-20388/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a035cc8f558c17441f07afcfe01e73dd160fc0e0d5caab8b699d3ebf8c436e52-600.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": "Ars Nova \"InTouch\"", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Jazz-Institut Berlin", "address": "Einsteinufer 43-53", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation", "dance/improvisation"], "description": "A performance in which music and dance are created in the moment rather than merely performed. Students of the Jazz-Institut Berlin and the dance programme of the Universität der Künste Berlin artistically explore whether improvisation is the key to dealing with an uncertain future. Starting from original compositions by Tobija Hudnik, virtuosic solos and collective improvisation give rise to new musical and choreographic forms in real time. As part of Berlin Science Week under this year's motto “In Touch”, the project asks how creativity and joint action can make new ways of living together tangible in a world of change. 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The set draws on Gnawa percussion, Nigerian talking drums, Bwiti ritual sounds, Afro-Caribbean samples and Arabic rhythmic cycles, layered with vinyl, plant sounds, women's voices, singing, spoken word and improvisation over heavy, pulsating bass and polyrhythms. Part of the series Re-Rootings - Weaving Sonic Histories of the Global South, it brings suppressed musical histories, feminist memory and decolonial perspectives into a shared space of listening and movement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ancxstral-frequencies-sonic-rituals-20282/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/38e88f4231751f72b2d89072bfbefa974be6d038a5bdbefdee8bf49cab6149e9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Workshop: Contradiction as Practice — The Body Between Doubt and Convi", "start": "2026-10-31T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T15:00:00+01:00", "place": "Theater unterm Dach", "address": "Schönfließer Straße 7, 10437", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Contradiction as Practice is a participatory workshop in which participants use movement, voice and collective composition to explore the body as a space between doubt and conviction. Behind it is Evelin Facchini, choreographer and movement director of SAN PAOLO – The Martyrdom of Pasolini. Rather than understanding change as a linear process, the workshop works with contradiction, uncertainty and conflicting impulses as materials for movement and collective experience. It asks how different positions can coexist within a body and within a group, and how difference can shape a shared space without being resolved into agreement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/workshop-contradiction-as-practice-the-body-between-doubt-an-24236/", "official_url": "https://theateruntermdach-berlin.de/produktion/workshop-contradiction-as-practice-the-body-between-doubt-and-conviction/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b6f6f256cdefeea6b548c2cce8005cbfd8da4b6f2bf3077fbfa7ce0c4136ed31-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Elvan Tekin: THIS IS (NOT) THE END", "start": "2026-11-12T22:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sophiensæle", "address": "Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin", "price": "10€/15€/20€/25€", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://sophiensaele.reservix.de/p/reservix/group/553772", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"THIS IS (NOT) THE END\" is a dance and performance work by Elvan Tekin, produced in coproduction with Sophiensæle. In it, dance forms that have migrated across places, borders, communities and generations meet, and are connected, overlaid and transformed by Elvan Tekin and Samuel Francis Perreira into a hybrid movement vocabulary. The piece unsettles familiar notions of virtuosity, beauty, gender and social norms, asking who may look, who is looked at, and what happens when a body refuses to be fully legible. Accompanied musically by Krzysztof Bagiński and Saemi Jeong, the performers' relationships shift constantly, and the audience becomes part of this changeable dynamic.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/elvan-tekin-this-is-not-the-end-20018/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/this-is-not-the-end", "image": "https://noky.io/images/572d3da62ff09f930ddc98052d40c7c90fc8ece770ea75115b2a7a8760960de8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I want revenge, grandma", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00+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/grandma/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"I want revenge, grandma\" is a performance and dance work by Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, presented as part of the Shape Festival. The artist, rooted in Liberia's Kpelle community, asks about the colonial relationship between Liberia and Germany and what it reveals about Europe's centuries-long oppression of Africa and its people. In a sensual, multi-layered performance she invites the audience to face old wounds, hard shells and dusty museum display cases, to remember them and to break them open. Using her own framework of the four R's – restitution, reparations, revenge and return – she connects analysis of the past with concrete demands for the present and future.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/i-want-revenge-grandma-10004/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/3483", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dac8f0a3a5c2254de440b00dc1d0276e4a7b6b24d945add346451684208fa667-1200.webp"}, {"title": "UNEXPECTED LESSONS 5: The Resonating Body – Writing and Orality", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "radialsystem", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tueftellab.de/makerspace/futurium-lab/", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"UNEXPECTED LESSONS 5: The Resonating Body – Writing and Orality\" is an evening combining a writing workshop, three performances and a discussion around the interplay of body, orality and writing. Behind the event are the artists Melanie Jame Wolf, emet ezell, Alvin Tran and Celina Baljeet Basra. At its heart are questions of how texts for dance and performance are crafted and how language works as a material on stage. On show are, among others, Wolf's formal experiment \"UNRULY MATERIAL (After Genet, after Mr. Punch)\", ezell's performative reading \"MY MOUTH IS A RESURRECTION CHANNEL\" and Tran's first play \"STRAWBERRY, ARIZONA\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/unexpected-lessons-5-the-resonating-body-writing-and-orality-30427/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Sankofa - Fäden der Erinnerung", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://stage.get-vibe.de/tickets.asp?eid=206605", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/circus/contemporary-circus", "history/colonialism"], "description": "SANKOFA – FÄDEN DER ERINNERUNG is an interdisciplinary performance and research project by Helen Schwochert and Brenda Akele Jorde and the first creation of their company Zwischen Seilen und Sein. The contemporary circus piece deals with cultures of remembrance and colonial continuities between Germany and Ghana. At its centre stands a transformable multisilks prop that serves as a stage set and a metaphor for a plural culture of remembrance. Two short films open the evening, followed by an exchange with the audience, artists, filmmakers and a representative of berlin decolonial tours.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sankofa-faden-der-erinnerung-3736/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhausprinzenallee.de/spielplan-ballhaus/sankofa-faden-der-erinnerung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db340cd2473f2bd5d3a3f205fbf32315239787429c89cf440d0f0ed4837f0904-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Embodied Practices – Talk über Körperwissen", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Radialsystem V", "address": "Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin", "price": "Freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "society"], "description": "\"Embodied Practices – Talk über Körperwissen\" is a talk within the series \"Embodied Practices\" at Radialsystem. It features Laura Campaz, Jenny M. Díaz Muñoz, Julieth Morales and Maque Pereyra, whose artistic and curatorial practices meet in dialogue. The subject is embodied knowledge as a situated, living practice that arises in movements, rituals and sensory experiences and is passed on, preserved and transformed through shared activity. Admission is free, the talk is held in English, and works by the artists are on view in the space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/embodied-practices-talk-uber-korperwissen-23702/", "official_url": "https://www.radialsystem.de/de/veranstaltungen/embodied-practices-talk-uber-korperwissen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14b82778c9a8a3035f32f519959e7e6665446c79350b177300089cbe10aa2620-2000.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": "Mata Leão", "start": "2026-11-01T16:00:00+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"}, {"title": "SANKOFA STAGES: Poetry, Konzert und DJ Set", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berlin Global Village", "address": "Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin", "price": "Freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/migration/diaspora", "literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "SANKOFA STAGES is an evening of poetry, a concert and a DJ set in the cultural series at Berlin Global Village. Behind the series are Berlin Global Village and cooperation partners including Afrikarat Brandenburg e.V., ANEE e.V., Initiative Perspektivwechsel and Sister Cities in Action by Bernetzwerk. It puts African and Afro-diasporic perspectives at the centre and celebrates the creativity and diversity of African and Black art and cultural production in Berlin. The evening features a concert by DammyDaas, poetry by Fatim Selina, a DJ set by nilomcmusic and moderation by Maame Konadu; admission is free and no registration is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sankofa-stages-poetry-konzert-und-dj-set-50361/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin-global-village.de/de/event/256/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Raw Voice Lab Showcase", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grüner Salon", "address": "Rückerstraße 9, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/vocal"], "description": "Raw Voice Lab Showcase is a public concert that concludes a series of workshops on voice and movement work for the stage. Behind it are Sarmen Almond, a 2026 Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and Anna Clementi, who responds to the outcomes of the Raw Voice Lab together with the workshop participants. In the preceding sessions, participants worked on attentive listening, developing their auditory abilities, and placing vocal sounds and motifs within a sonic environment. The showcase on the final workshop day presents these outcomes to the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/raw-voice-lab-showcase-270/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/raw-voice-lab/20261031-1600/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Embodied Practices – Talk on embodied knowledge with Laura Campaz, Jenny M. Díaz Muñoz, Julieth Morales and Maque Pereyra", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "radialsystem", "address": "", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "society"], "description": "A talk on embodied knowledge, a situated living practice that emerges through movement, ritual and sensory experience and is carried on through bodies, places and encounters. It brings together Laura Campaz, Jenny M. Díaz Muñoz, Julieth Morales and Maque Pereyra. Campaz combines archival work, digital technologies and speculative imagination from an Afro-Colombian perspective, while Morales, as a Misak artist, reinterprets bodily and ritual practices and questions colonial influences and gender roles. Díaz Muñoz connects art, politics and historical memory through collaborative research and creation, and Pereyra opens pathways to embodied knowledge through pleasure, sensuality and spirituality via music, movement and her practice Yoggaton. In dialogue they ask how artistic and curatorial practice transforms inherited forms of knowledge, with works by the artists presented in the space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/embodied-practices-talk-on-embodied-knowledge-with-laura-cam-73027/", "official_url": "https://www.radialsystem.de/en/veranstaltungen/embodied-practices-talk-uber-korperwissen/", "image": ""}]}