Ancient folklore collides with imagined futures in this bold and visually captivating dance performance. Beginning with an act of physical endurance, three performers push their bodies to the limit before embarking on a journey of transformation.

Drawing on female archetypes that have endured across generations- witches, mermaids, mothers, snakes, and warriors – the work explores how stories of womanhood are carried, inherited, and reimagined. As these figures emerge and dissolve, the performers navigate shifting landscapes of power, identity, and community, revealing the tension between tradition and technological progress.

At its heart, the work is a search for connection. Through endurance, transformation, and collective movement, it explores what it means to belong to one another in a world where technological advancement increasingly shapes how we relate, communicate, and care.

Sat. 22. 08.:
Futuristic Folk Dance Workshop, 3:30 PM – 5 PM, SchokoSport
24. 08. – 3. 09.:
Movement Labs and Professional Classes, 9 AM – 10:30 AM, weekdays, Tanzhalle Wiesenburg
Fri. 4. 09.:
Studio preview Mother Computer: Folk Dances From The Future, 7:30 PM, Tanzhalle Wiesenburg

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.2.09. 2026 | LaborBerlin presents: La Cellule d’Intervention METAMKINE

Photo: METAMKINE

Founded in 1987, METAMKINE is an open-ended group of filmmakers and musicians exploring the relationship between image and sound. For this performance, Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel work with 16mm films and projectors, while Jérôme Noetinger performs with electroacoustic devices.

With multiple 16mm projectors, mirrors and live editing, METAMKINE creates a constantly shifting interplay of image and sound. Film fragments are projected, reflected and layered across the space, while tape loops and electronic sounds are shaped live alongside them. Rather than following a fixed sequence, the performance develops in the moment, with image and sound continuously influencing one another.

For nearly four decades, METAMKINE has presented its work at festivals, cinemas, galleries and contemporary art spaces across Europe and internationally, continually pushing cinema beyond the screen and into the realm of live performance.

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26. / 27. / 28. June Sommerfest.ival

Friday 26 June:
17:30   Sensorial introduction / warm-up with Isabelle Schad and Mobile Ensemble
18:00 Isabelle Schad with Anders Vestergaard and Mobiles Ensemble
Studies on Infinity #4 (Drumming & Rescue Score)
20:00 Chill out or die #2, Part 1: Sounds from Knifeloop & Frank & blacblob, improv, objects and electronics
21:00 Julek Kreutzer: Noise – with Lina Gómez, Jakob Bogatzki, Michelangelo Contini, Julek Kreutzer and Bruno Pocheron
22:00 Chill out or die #2, Part 2: Sounds from Knifeloop & Frank & blacblob, improv, objects and electronics

Saturday 27 June:
16:00 likabari: SILENTSTARE, Site specific performance / Garden
16:30   Sensorial introduction / warm-up with Isabelle Schad and Mobile Ensemble
17:00 Isabelle Schad with Anders Vestergaard and Mobiles Ensemble
Studies on Infinity #4 (Drumming & Rescue Score)
19:00 Maja Zimmerlin & Johannes von Buttlar: Pulse / Hands Dances
Isabelle Schad & Chris Pitsiokos: Moment Forms / Hands Dances
Arantxa Martinez: J, a Folk-Striptease
22:00 Organza Ray (Hilary Jeffery & Eleni Poulou) – Concert

Sunday 28 June:
14:00 Painting with children | along the Panke bank
16:00 likabari: SILENTSTARE, Site specific performance / Garden
16:30 Maja Zimmerlin & Johannes von Buttlar: Pulse / Hands Dances
18:00 Lina Gomez, Alejandra Cárdenas, Bruno Pocheron: Aurora – dance, music and light improvisation
Isabelle Schad & Chris Pitsiokos: Moment Forms / Hands Dances
Arantxa Martinez: J, a Folk-Striptease
20:30..où la nuit tombe un bruit sourd. interlude illimité (finale) Performance, Sophie Watzlawick and Marcello Silvio Busato

Ongoing:
Atelier: Slow learner, installation by Bruno Pocheron with Isabelle Anders, Paul Kotal and Han-Gyeol Lie. Big thanks to Melika Akbari Asl, Eva Leemans, Florian Bach and Marcello Silvio Busato
Rampe: Film screening by Labor Berlin (Pilo Falco, Jan Rehwinkel, Katrin Eissing, Anders Bigum, Herman Feldhaus, Carolina Romillo, Sophie Watzlawick) Patricia Woltmann and Gruener Pudel
Werkhalle Wiesenburg: Exhibition by Thomas Bo Henriksson, Paris Paintings (Jan-April 2026), opening 27.06. 17:00

The Sommerfest.ival 2026 is supported by the production venue grant program of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion – Culture Division

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23.04.2026 The Ellipses with Vinyl-terror & -horror
26.04.2026 The Ellipses with Mieko Suzuki

Two performance evenings dedicated to the connecting instrument, the turntable, at Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin, with The Ellipses (JD Zazie, Claudia Schmitz) and guest artists  Vinyl-terror & -horror (23 April) and Mieko Suzuki (26 April)

In a congenial crossover of analogue and digital gestures, of regular and unhinged rotations, clear and broken narratives with gaps, sound and moving images, the artists raise questions about the culture of memory, data archiving and the meaningfulness of media boundaries and temporality, technology and human experience. By questioning their own perspectives and searching for new references, they confront their own fallibility and, through collective experience, expand their own perceptions by developing a new trans-medial language and opening up its interpretability to discussion with the audience. The subtitle gap, data loss, skip deliberately refers to the trans-disciplinary significance of ellipses and related topics such as freedom of communication, cultures of conversation, cross-genre translation, and the questioning of media boundaries.

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11.1.2026 5pm | On the Edge

Solo dance performance by Mohanad Azzan.

Artistic mentorship by Isabelle Schad | music by Tamer Elshabrawy.

Presented within the framework of Tanzhalle Wiesenburg residencies / supported by Wiesen55 e.V./Tanzhalle Wiesenburg.

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