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Aftershow starts where Dance Evening 4 has ended: it is looking for bodies of the future and the possibility of collectivity in them.

Alices Traum

Auf schönen Rasenbänken saßen Blumengestalten, die ernstlich miteinander redeten. Durch die labyrinthähnliche Hecke erschienen lauter weiße Hasen und schon fragt man sich: in welcher Traumwelt bin ich gelandet? Wessen Traum stellt Lewis Carrolls Vision auf den Kopf? Und setzt er die Sphären des Tag- und Nachtbewusstseins gegeneinander?

Anwesend. Aufgehoben.

Presenting some of the most intelligent texts, being kept in the fund of The Prinzhorn Collection, Berlin based writer and director Gerd Hartmann has turned stories of the inmates of insane asylums from the early 20th century into tableaus of poetic and vivid power. Awardwinning author Martin Kluger recommended "Presence. Annuled. - Life signs from Asylum" in Der Tagesspiegel: "Theatre as an adventure, beyond all discourses, neither a moral nor a disabusing establishment, but a real axe for the frozen ice inside us".

BioFiction

Co-Production Theater Thikwa Berlin / Studio Kroog II Moscow as part of the Thikwa anniversary season 2016 under the motto "Enrich yourself!".

Bleach: Aurora Hunters

Lighting up space with a vibrant glow, a tribe of seven aurora hunters inhabits a bleached out, overexposed universe. Doomed to fade away, they practice a fragile balancing act to reunite with the forces of nature.Shape-shifting, their iridescent bodies will guide the spectators through a charged spectrum of lucid dreaming; a transformative journey, morphing and altering our spacial and physical perception. A mutating emotional landscape of materials texturing the invisible and variating the color of transparency.A dive into the depth of white in search for the rainbow.

Burning Horse

Inspired by the life of the extraordinary dancer and choreographer Waslaw Nijinsky, awardwinning filmmaker and director of photography Elfi Mikesch created a kaleidoscope about love and pain, jealousness, lunacy and death. Figures from ballets like Petrushka and Nutcracker interfuse with figures from his life. Out comes an overwhelming balancing act between human tragedy and blinking humor.

C A N D Y

The Nutcracker (the ballet) is already sold out? Offer your family the inexpensive alternative! We have Tchaikovsky in a can, and a frozen pizza (with hidden sugar) is dancing instead of the Sugar Plum Fairy. In the Queen's cooking show, you learn how to open bags of sour gum or unwrap candy bars. If only there weren't the mice, they eat everything! Soon we'll get to the point that the king himself has to go to the kiosk...
Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's fairytale within a fairytale (which tells how the Nutcracker became the Nutcracker), we are taking a look at the role sugar plays in all of our lives, how it shapes our society, how it is currently produced and how it used to be produced as well as how it reflects class relations.

Dance Loves Music Loves Dance

Five members of the Thikwa ensemble each choreograph a piece for an external guest dance along the text line of a well-known song. And then? The quiz show begins! Fueled by the music of DJ Grace Kelly and charmingly accompanied by moderators, the audience has to vote to decide on the right music for the movement of the dance pieces. DANCE LOVES MUSIC LOVES DANCE is an excursion to the mainstream and, at the same time, a change of perspective and an interaction on multiple levels. It is about ever new encounters between the artists and the audience and the boundless desire to play. An evening in a community that is looking for the things that make it happy. With music and dance.

Das Beuys

100 years Joseph Beuys: What would be when he would have been a woman? Or without a gender? Women’s voices, men’s voices. Women’s art? Men’s art? Or art and a snail voice? How many pockets Beuys's vest had? What's in Joseph's pocket? Memories, secrets, and clues of provocation? Or conversation/communication for heating each other?

Dave

After having examined two surrealist arthouse films by Luis Buñuel, Anne Tismer and Theater Thikwa reinvent a Hollywood comedy this time. Weird, funny and with a lot of dance.

Der diskrete Schwarm der Bourgeoisie

Six fine, elegant and very beautiful friends always meet up for dinner. It never happens, they are interrupted every time. The entire artistic action is based on Luis Buñuel's film "The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie". The Thikwa Ensemble and performance artist Anne Tismer try to do everything exactly the same way as in the movie, but turn out to be very surreal.

Der verborgene Garten des Kublai Khan

Inspiriert von Italo Calvinos Werk "Die unsichtbaren Städte", in dem der venezianische Reisende Marco Polo dem Mongolenherrscher Kublai Khan über dessen Imperium berichtet, stellt das Tanzstück die Frage nach der Manipulation durch Bilder und Erzählungen. In den Beschreibungen Marco Polos ist die Stadt seiner Herkunft Kern seiner Vorstellungen jeder anderen Stadt oder Landschaft, Schablone und Maßstab. Städte und Räume werden zu Phantasiegebilden, die man nur mit geschlossenen Augen sehen und wahrnehmen kann. Eroberung findet durch die Sinne statt, nicht mit dem Schwert.

Description of an elephant

Zou means elephant in Japanese. Godzilla is a creature of the atomic bomb and the God of Zilla. Maybe the elephant is an electric phantom? Have you ever seen a real Zou? One of those dirty gray rags in the zoo with the sad eyes or on Youtube, where they make the same movement over and over again? In this dance installation, the Japanese Butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki and the Thikwa Ensemble question how we perceive broken bodies, experiences and feelings.

Diane for a day

How are identities made visible on stage - and how can we play with them? Inspired by the drag king workshops by the artist Diane Torr, Diane for a day investigates new ways of dealing with physicality on stage. Not only the performance of gender identities is examined and tested - the theatricality of one’s own privileges as well as those of others become the point of departure for jokes, anger and (self-)empowerment.

Die Butterblumen des Guten

What would happen if I could feed my friends to a meat-eating plant? And once they have been fed to it, would the plant then eat me, or would I eat it? What actually separates us from plants? How alienated are we from them in a time where we need them more than ever?Over the course of a séance in the style of the 19th century, the performers reveal their innermost feelings and use dance and song to reach the boundaries of the genre, the unexpected knowledge in which the big show is definitely hidden - somewhere between surrealism, dada and musical.

Die Flieger

"Eine Frau kriegt ein Mädchen. Dauert lange. Da ist ein Ei. Wenn dus rausnimmst, also dann siehst du die ganzen Fäden, also sagen wir mal so ne Art Zwirn. Hier aus dem Bauch kommt das Kind raus. Und dann wird operiert, und dann so duff duff duff, mit Watte, mit Watte...

Don Quixote

As part of the model project "Konzert für alle" ("Concert for everyone"), Thikwa meets the Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin. In Richard Strauss' "fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character", the Thikwa performers act in front of, behind and with the orchestra. With large dance scenes, we swirl the adventures of the knight into a sad figure and ask about the boundaries between madness and reason. A fantastic ride through the worlds of a system buster.

Dschingis Khan

Three performers with Down syndrome take to the stage as traditional inhabitants of Mongolia. Dressed in thick fur coats, they parade across the stage and treat the public to ‘authentic Mongolian’ behavior. A setting reminiscent of the ‘human zoos’ popular in Europe at the time Dr. Langdon-Down was making his discoveries. While lighting and sound effects color the inherently neutral action, the performance plays with our judgements and prejudices concerning ‘the other’. A set-up as effective as it is simple, stirring up the discussion of both colonialism and racism as handicaps. In this way, Dschingis Khan creates space for shock and empathy, fear and fascination, projection and reflection.

Extremities

This dance performance illustrates the development of the human body from a single cell through to its ultimate form and focuses on the body in its physicality, complete with all of its strengths and weaknesses. No body is perfect. There is no absolute symmetry, no objective standard. All the same, human beings strive for precisely this; society wants perfection and optimization instead of accepting differences. Extremities is declaration of war using the tools of dance against conformity and superficial ideals that is as visually stunning as it is intimate.

face to face – Gegensätze

Five times two performers, each group performing for 15 minutes – it all adds up to a very colourful evening. Crisply brief and full of surprises. This is how the Thikwa series face to face works. The theme for this first round of encounters is “contrasts”. An open-air theatre series in the courtyard of the Bockbrauerei located at Fidicinstraße 3. Please note the information on ticket sales and safety regulations.

face to face – Resonanzen

After the successful start last season, face to face is entering its second round! The principle is based on one to one encounters without the involvement of a director - these are short performance sketches and each scene is about 15 minutes long. Five performances with two performers each, one of them a member of the Thikwa ensemble and the other external, who come together and present their joint consideration of the topic of resonances. Thrown together quickly and stitched together, this is a very diverse evening of work.

Hausgemacht – Back to the 90s

In our new series HAUSGEMACHT (homemade), everything is self made: the topic, the casting, the direction - people from the Thikwa ensemble are responsible for everything that makes up an evening theater from the initial idea all the way to the premiere.

Hindernisse auf der Fahrbahn

For many years, the performer Ruth Geiersberger has carried a book around with her and quoted from it during performances: the collected texts of Ernst Herbeck, Im Herbst da reiht der Feenwind. Now she has dedicated an evening to him. Herbeck (1920-1991) spent half of his life in the Gugging Lower Austrian State Mental Hospital. He began writing poetry on the advice of his doctor, Leo Navratil. Together with Torsten Holzapfel, Tim Petersen and Klaus Janek on the double bass, Ruth Geiersberger reads and sings Herbeck poems and folk songs. What results is a musical-poetic tapestry consisting of spoken word, performance, theater, interaction and humor. An evening at the edge of language that gently reveals the tears in the backdrop of the world.

Homescape

The big anniversary production in 2016 on the occasion of 25 years of Thikwa.

Invent Me – Club Thikwa

In our first play "Invent Me", Club Thikwa researches artificial intelligence: How does AI shift our understanding of reality and realism? What truth will humans identify with in the future and what will still make us seem human then?The boundary between human and machine is becoming increasingly blurred: AI makes us fall in love, frightens us, makes us rebellious, dependent, lonely and fascinates us at the same time. In "Invent Me" we play with this ambivalence.Performers aged between 8 and 80, with and without disabilities and with different stage experiences, have formed the new Club Thikwa ensemble since February 2023.

Kafka am Sprachrand

Koproduktion mit dem Theater zum westlichen Stadthirschen.Ein Experiment im Sprachlabyrinth auf einer zunehmend von weißen Mäusen bevölkerten Bühne.

LEAP … into the Unknown

Is a plate really just a plate? A dinner party dreams of the leap that makes the impossible possible. The dinner runs into difficulties, the plates really aren’t just plates, but instead a landscape of objects that constantly change and must always be reinterpreted. In their movement, the objects and performers come together to create fantastic images. Let´s jump! Like in a completely new type of circus. But be careful - the objects are fragile and dangerous! Without paying careful attention, everything can end up broken. There is a lot at stake: the shared dream of flying, the dream of daring a new world together - it’s nothing less than that. LEAP ... into the Unknown is just that, the leap into the unknown that is necessary for daring to try to something new.

Maison de Santé

Ob du als Genie, Heiliger oder als Wahnsinniger giltst, das entscheidet die Wertegesellschaft. Ob jemand zu den Patienten oder zum Personal in der Psychiatrie gehört, kann ein Zufall seiner Lebensgeschichte sein. Was passiert, wenn die Patienten dem Zufall ein bißchen nachhelfen?

Merkel

In a performance somewhere between a realpolitik press conference and a private exercise of power, they encounter the first female German Chancellor as a representative of her ideals, desires and decisions. None of the performers voted for Angela Merkel.

Möchten Sie noch? Nein Danke!

Hilfe! Hilfe! Ach so, Finanzhilfe! Darauf ein Chopin-Prelude. Und der Kongress-Dozent hatte im übrigen eine eklige Narbe am Kinn. Am fein eingedeckten Tisch, umgarnt von Servierpersonal, debattiert eine seltsame Dinnergesellschaft. Zu perlenden Klavierklängen gibt es ungepflegte Konversation zu den richtigen Themen. Alles in komplett falschem Timing.

Move out loud

MOVE OUT LOUD traces the movements set in motion by speeches and focusses on connections between bodies and tongues. Seven dancers sound out hierarchies of speech. A walk-in landscape of windows invites the audience to piece together movements from different angles over and over again: MOVE OUT LOUD empowers hand in foot, shoulder to belly and head over arm.

My brother’s many voices

Brother and sister organize a voice casting. Due to a genetic defect, the brother's voice will soon fail. So, together they look for a voice with which he can continue to speak. Or rather: many voices! One for every life situation.What if you could have more than one voice? And what would it do to the siblings if his sister wrote about it? In a mixture of show, puppet and radio play, Schauspielhaus Wien asks, not least, who represents whom.

NO LIMITS 2024

Orlando

A phantasy about androgyny and sexual metamorphosis , inspired by Virginia Woolf: In Virgina Woolf’s fictitious biography “Orlando”, the story of a life is told which begins in the 16th century and stretches up to the year 1928.

Oz, Oz, Oz! (W)Rap the Wizard!

Somewhere over the rainbow, a doubled Dorothy is flying over the Land of Oz. On the way to the Emerald City, not Chemnitz, where things will hopefully take off, she meets strong characters: the brainless scarecrow is actually really happy about the fact that you can get in everywhere for free with a “hunting license”. And the cowardly lion shakily raps a hymn to fear. Only the lady with the red pumps constantly tries to convince the group of travelers of her inadequacy. Thikwa has created a musical! And it’s anything but conventional. Rap meets electronic jazz, the performers sing and dance, but at the same time, the genre is put right through the meat grinder. A performative road movie about individuality and the hurdles of self-improvement.

Protokoll Pankow

Peter Pankow has worked as a writer, actor and visual artist for over 25 years - he is one of the most successful Thikwa performers and a painter who has received multiple awards. Here, this exceptional artist meets Dominik Bender, a very different multi-talent with a knack for wordplay, poetry and photography. The two of them have worked together on multiple productions for many years. Based in part upon very intimate interviews, a text has been created in which these two very different performers examine their artistic self-images and their value in society. A testament to thinking outside of the box - funny, enlightening and highly philosophical.

Puppetina

Mit dieser Hommage an die britische SchriftstellerinAngela Carter (1940-1992) setzt Theater Thikwaseine Reihe der Tanzinszenierung literarischer Werkefort. Das Stück zeigt bewegte Momentaufnahmen derinneren Welt einer Puppe und die Verkörperung ihrerFantasien. Voyeuristische Illusionen lassen uns in derSchwebe zwischen Gewalt und Liebe, begehrtem Objektund Erniedrigtem und wer eigentlich die Zügel in derHand hält. Die Gewalt zwischen Puppenmeister undPuppe führt zu neuen Konstellationen der Beziehungen.Hinter dem schaurig Schönen tauchen humorvolleBilder auf. Das Geschehen kippt in erotische Leichtigkeit,skandiert von Homlers fantasievoll skurriler Musik.Puppetina ist von vier Werken von Angela Carterinspiriert:The Passion of New Eve (1977)Wayward Girls and Wicked Women:An Anthology of Subversive Stories (1986)The Loves of Lady Purple(from the collection entitled Fireworks (1974)The Courtship of Mr. Lyonfrom The Bloody Chamber (1979)

Pure Improv – THIKWA meets GORILLAS

The Thikwa performers continue to learn and put out feelers to explore acting, dance and music in their full range. In 2021, they met the GORILLAS, one of the most successful improv groups in Germany. A joint workshop week gave rise to the desire to continue improvising together and also to share the stage from time to time. Finally, the time has come and we present "Impro Pur", an evening of encounter. Immediate. Surprising. Lively. And always unique.

Regie

RegisseurInnen haben die Macht im Theater. Alles hört auf ihr Kommando. Was passiert, wenn diese Macht an Andere übergeben wird, die den Umgang mit ihr nicht gewöhnt sind? Und ist das überhaupt reale Macht, wenn sie gnädig überlassen wird?

ReTold – Nach:Erzählt 2022

How about winning and losing? And with the things in life in general? Theater Thikwa interviewed Berlin athletes from the Special Olympics. Their stories were the source of inspiration for a colorful mix of scenes. A fast-paced mix of short performances and dance acts can be seen several times a day in front of the Thikwa containers located at the Rathauspassagen – topped by fat beatbox music.

ReTold – Nach:Erzählt

ReTold – Nach:Erzählt (Short Performances)

Schillers Schreibtisch

Im Jahr 1943 wurden einige Insassen des Lagers Buchenwald damit beauftragt, eine exakte Kopie des Schreibtisches von Friedrich Schiller anzufertigen. Angesichts zunehmender Bombardierungen sollte das Original aus dem Schiller-Haus in Weimar an einen sicheren Ort verbracht werden.Ausgehend von dieser ebenso perfiden wie wahren Geschichte begibt sich ein 7köpfiges Thikwa-Ensemble auf eine Zeitreise.

Schweigen Impossible

How is it possible to reach an understanding when one person blusters and swaggers, the other person can hardly intervene in a comprehensible manner, a third person claims to understand everything, a fourth person rushes in to help using sign language and a fifth person translates everything into dance? A hopeless mishmash of languages like the Tower of Babel? A hilariously funny look at trying out all the options of (mis)understanding? Or a conciliatory coming together of different techniques of reaching an understanding? Factual, post-factual or as fake news – Thikwa sets off into perceived realities. An encounter of translators, interpreters and know-it-alls with people who speak using body language and sounds.

Seesaw

In der Nacht hält keine Logik Ordnung – das Denken heißt Traum.

Sieben … aber einmal auch der helle Schein

The number seven enjoys a special status and serves as a source of inspiration in many cultures - from the myth of creation to the seven deadly sins. In Sieben, seven avowed sinners delight in dedicating themselves to their own passions and vices through choreography and music, with a great deal of humor: their lust, their greed, their vanity, their jealousy, their laziness, their sex drive, their consumption. And, in doing so, they continuously and playfully explore morality, which always has to be reinvented and redefined. Texts by the Thikwa performers, created over the course of improvisations and interviews, are transformed into seven song compositions by the songwriter Susanne Betancor, known as Die Popette.

So why – Suchen nach Siegfried

How does it work with sword and blood, with heroism and murder, with love and betrayal when you are young, blonde and courageous, but also really stupid? Siegfried - a fearless superzero, so-to-speak. But a very sweet one. What is a hero? More than a stunt? Or is it all just Tarzan? The beautiful Siggi is someone that others control through her greed. Profit-oriented, a perfect capitalist. And let’s swap out genteel with “friendly enemy”. We are searching for Siegfried. We are remastering Wagner music with new texts and samples. We are asking whether murder has to be part of the principle of masculinity. And what is it like if you first notice far to late, or not at all, that you’re being used? If you end up being stuck in a black hole that you can never get out of? A piece from a time where you are black-and-white.

Tanzabend 1 – Männersachen

„Tanzabend” heißt eine neue Reihe, in der wir jeweils zwei Tanzskizzen vorstellen. Der offene, spielerische Titel ist Programm. Unter einem Motto aber ohne genaue Themenvorgabe treffen Choreografen und Tänzer der Berliner und internationalen Szene auf Thikwa-Performer: Begegnungen der ganz besonderen Art.

Tanzabend 2 – Überbelichtet

„Tanzabend” heißt eine neue Reihe, in der wir jeweils zwei Tanzskizzen vorstellen. Der offene, spielerische Titel ist Programm. Unter einem Motto, aber ohne genaue Themenvorgabe treffen Choreografen und Tänzer der Berliner und internationalen Szene auf Thikwa-Performer: Begegnungen der ganz besonderen Art.

Tanzabend 3 – Opposition

Thikwas erfolgreicher „Tanzabend” geht in die dritte Runde! In dieser Reihe stellt Theater Thikwa jeweils zwei Tanzskizzen vor. Der offene, spielerische Titel ist Programm. Unter einem Motto, aber ohne genaue Themenvorgabe treffen Choreograf*innen und Tänzer*innen der Berliner und internationalen Szene auf Thikwa-Performer: Begegnungen der ganz besonderen Art.

Tanzabend 4 – Identität ist sowieso Quatsch

Identität beschäftigt das Thikwa-Ensemble gemeinsam mit Choreografin Juli Reinartz und Choreograf Martin Nachbar im Tanzabend 4.

Tanzabend 5 – Glück

Fast and furious, breathtaking, intense. But also painful and filled with love - in dialogue with other people. You burn and ask yourself at some point: and now?

The Capsule

The capsule is a song
The capsule is a tent
The capsule is a human being
The capsule is a nuisance
The capsule reveals nothing
The capsule is a means of transportation
The capsule likes to travel alone
The capsule is a bearer of secrets
The capsule embraces me without feeling
In delirium, time flies by, empty on a train,
finally a compartment of my own

theater30thikwa – OCCUPY FUTURE

Thikwa is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary! It could be the right moment to reflect upon the long path traveled to get to where diverse theater is today. But we’re not going to that. We’re going to take on the future! Open air and as a theatrical journey through a green courtyard - an approach that can certainly be seen as programmatic. We are going to take on positions and move the figures on the societal chessboard! Reflectively, questioningly, humorously and as a way to think playfully around the corner. The loud megaphones will suddenly become quiet and poetic. What do I wish for the future beyond the slogans but which is still a strong statement? Perhaps something that can be sung together? And the phoenix dances with a new shine along with it. The more we live, the more we learn, the more we are able to clarify, the less we know. Or, to put it completely differently: how do you deal with the future when you can perform an inclusive guest performance on Mars? Can we visit other planets in search of advice or do we end up contaminating them with the expansive nature of the human spirit?

Thikwa plus Junkan Project I

"Japanisch" und "Deutsch", "Nichtbehinderung" und "Behinderung", verschiedene (Tanz-)Kulturen - Körper, Begegnung, Dialog, Bewegung stehen im Zentrum des Tanzprojektes. Es reflektiert und erprobt mit tanzwissenschaftlichem Hintergrund, schafft Zugänge und Verbindungen zwischen zwei Tanzkulturen. Der preisgekrönte Tänzer und Choreograph Osamu Jareo und die Dramaturgin Nanako Nakajima, Tanzwissenschaftlerin an der Freien Universität Berlin, erarbeiten mit drei deutschen und drei japanischen Darstellern eine Improvisationsperformance, die den unterschiedlichen Tanzmethoden und tänzerischen Formen neue Impulse geben wird

Thikwa plus Junkan Project II

Zweiter Teil des deutsch-japanischen Work-in-Progress-Tanzprojekts zur Erforschung interkultureller Kommunikationsstrukturen.

Thikwa plus Junkan Project III

The main theme in this japanese-german longterm dance-project is the dialogue: If we have no language to share, how can we communicate? Can we really communicate by using body language and eye contact? Aren't these languages the limited tools based on the ability of ordinary abled body? How can we establish the dialogue, which goes beyond the condition and ability of the body and cultural backgrounds?

TROTZ DEM HÖLDERLIN!

Who was Hölderlin? An underappreciated poet who described the world from his small tower room?

Umtausch ausgeschlossen

A package is delivered. The contents: body parts that definitely go together, but that don’t function as a whole. A figure of human size stands at the center of the performance. If it is guided, it achieves a personality. If it is studied, an alienation occurs that leads to new abilities. As an object, it provides a metaphorical project surface that invites the viewer to impartial investigation. This can be disturbing, it can lead to unusual situations that cross borders, but also bring new, changeable options into the game. Can we use defects as inspiration for unconventional solutions? Can we bypass defects through cooperations and develop unusual living and coping strategies? A performative encounter of objects and performers with unspoken agreements, cascades of words, the shifting of boundaries and unique rescue maneuvers, accompanied by living jazz singing.

ur.kunft

In German Ur- is a forming prefix in the sense of 'proto-, primitive, original', i.e. Ur-sprung (origin), Ur-form (prototype) or Ur-kraft (elemental force).What is the beginning of the world? The big bang or god's hand? Is earth formed like a turtles armor or round like an egg? Okay, then a very simple question, equally of vital significance: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? My mother or me? Do you prefer fried egg, omelet or a Kinder Surprise Egg for breakfast? Where does the chicken come from at KFC or McDonalds?

Verflucht das Herz

Liebe, Sehnsucht, Treuebruch, Vergänglichkeit, männlich/weiblich – Shakespeares berühmte Sonette sind ein überbordender Kosmos, rätselhaft und sinnlich. Die Thikwa-Schauspieler machen sich die Gedichte auf ganz besondere Weise zu eigen. Eine Tanzperformance über das Begehren, unterlegt mit einer Videoinstallation.

Vertauschte Zungen

Ein Projekt über die komischen Seiten der Lüge in Zeiten ihrer ungebrochenen Wertschätzung unter dem Motto: „Die Länge der Nase ist immer proportional zur Kürze der Beine.”

Vertigo

It really isn’t easy being in a body that say “yes”, but also “maybe” at the same time. Vertigo means dizziness - the uncertain ground you end up stumbling all over when you try to relate to others. In Vertigo, people who are purported to be autistic describe themselves and their options for expression. An examination of inner spaces and their periphery with a rap in between, with dance and beat boxing or a manga superhero. The myth of autism: while YOU stare at what is wrong with us, we look to see what is different about THEM. A seriously relaxed breakbeat oratorio of existence.

VIPs only!

Eight performers research the sustainability of idols and role models and give us an individual insight into their respective desires and dreamscapes. During the search for very important people, as well as very unimportant people, the idols are outed, updated, ripped apart and let loose against each other. They confront each other and the audience humorously and mercilessly with the utopia of an optimal human being and thus reveal the highly controversial ideas of the ideals and desires for societal acceptance. And, in the background, perhaps the avatars of Elton John, Lady Di, Bud Spencer,  PJ Harvey, Michael Schumacher, Otto Waalkes, Angela Merkel, Rune Jarstein or Udo Jürgens might pop up as well.

Zugabe

Applause is the daily bread of the artist who lives on fame and the love of the audience. But what happens when this love is bought? When the audience prostitutes itself? Doesn’t that make the work of the performers (or johns) meaningless? In the end, is it a win-win situation or the end of the free expression of opinion? As long as the barter makes sense for both sides, there is no loser. More is more.The performance collective Monster Truck sets out together with the Thikwa performer Addas Ahmad to examine applause, the manipulation of opinions and the infamous 15 minutes of fame. Again and again and again.

Zwillinge

When twins meet at the airport and one of them suddenly does not want to fly, things get exciting.Two very independent people meet on the parkour of their life between flights missed again and again, objects created from dreams and speculation about “how autism feels”.