{"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": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The School of Self-Defense", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+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=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 program invites participants to experience resilience as adaptive, regenerative and relationally oriented, and to actively co-shape how we want to design our world today and tomorrow.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/introduction-pilot-program-school-of-resilience-session-1-73291/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5493e6aa4d376327029a6571f6ab530e6ca466905873b8fb4701b6c1099a9dbd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Método Elementar (Elementary Method)", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00+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=23637", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/participatory-art", "wellness/meditation"], "description": "The workshop \"Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Método Elementar (Elementary Method)\" is a two-day practice held in English as part of The School of Self-Defense. 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