2025
Thursday, 13.11. & Friday, 14.11., 10:00 | Yuki Ona – Die Schneefrau
Thanks to the support of Offensive Tanz, we are delighted to present Yuki Onna – Die Schneefrau, a choreography by Isabelle Schad, once again at Tanzhalle Wiesenburg.
As the days grow shorter and darker, Aya Toraiwa – our Queen of Snow – will guide you into the magical world of this winter fairy tale, filled with shadowy realms and hypnotic moments.
A mysterious and enchanting landscape for audiences aged 4 and above.
Diving Into Open Ends
Open Studio of the Tanzpol Mentoring Program 2025
7. November with Shivā Amiri and Malina Suliman.
8. November with Baran Hashemi, Fahima Mirzaie, Atifa Gardi and Hadia Akrami
Mediators: Sara Nabil, Zolfar Hassib
Mentors: Sandra Noeth, Ali Moini, Hooman Sharifi
Project Management: Johanna Kasperowitsch, Ashkan Afsharian
Technical Direction: Jos McKain
In November tanzpol will host two evenings of artistic sharing and exchanging at Wiesenburg Berlin. The artists of the tanzpol Mentoring Program 2025 will give insights into their ongoing artistic research. In addition, there will be the opportunity of spending time together for personal exchange as well as shared food and drinks.
The tanzpol mentoring program, which took place in Berlin between May and November 2025, was aimed specifically at artists from Afghanistan working in the fields of dance, choreography, performance, and theatre. It offered participants the opportunity to engage in intensive exchange and to further develop their own artistic practice over a period of four weeks. The process was accompanied by three mentors.
In her performance Taming the Whirlwind, Fahima Mirzaie embodies the storm itself, a whirling tornado of energy and emotion. Through Sema dance – inspired by Dervish turning – she transforms chaos into healing, spinning turmoil into a path of resilience, and invites the audience to journey with her.
Malina Suliman develops in You Can Speak Freely a performance based on the transcript of an interview with Dutch immigration authorities. Reimagined in an operatic form, the piece critiques colonial language and institutional violence.
Baran Hashemi, together with Atifa Gardi and Hadia Akrami, is developing the dance theatre performance Daughters of the Moon. The piece combines traditional and contemporary dance, movement, and theatrical language with personal narratives from migrant and Afghan women’s perspectives.
In Composting, Shivā Amiri traces loss through extended f/l/i/g/h/t. In a placeless place—where monsters grieve & wounds cry out—fragments of memory are gathered & processed, becoming a personal archive of dance, sound & images. The performance explores Attan as a movement of remembering & emerging Futures.
Artists’ Biographies:
Baran Hashemi has been passionately engaged in theater since her youth – first in Herat, Afghanistan, and later in Germany. For many years she has performed on stage, participated in international theater projects, and today works as part of the leadership team of the self-organized theater group AWA in Berlin. There, the collective develops artistic projects with young people and people with refugee experience, bringing together personal stories, empowerment, and social issues.
Fahima Mirzaie, Afghanistan’s first female whirling dervish and Sema dancer, holds a bachelor’s in business. She founded Shohood, a cultural organization in Kabul, to preserve Afghanistan’s spiritual heritage. After moving to France four years ago, she has participated in artistic residencies and performances across Europe. Her work uses dance to bridge cultures, foster healing, and convey unity through Sema.
Malina Suliman was born in Afghanistan and has lived in exile for over a decade. She holds an MA from the Dutch Art Institute and an MA in Dance and Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts. She was a fellow at the Van Abbemuseum through the Artist Protection Fund (2017–2019). Her artistic practice investigates urban spaces as dynamic sites of mobility, displacement, and diasporic flows. It interrogates constructed cultural narratives and explores the complexities of fragmented identities in exile, creating a space for dialogue across borders and languages. As a woman born in Afghanistan and living in the diaspora, she views social roles as performative and is particularly interested in how identity is shaped by systems of exclusion and power.
Shivā Amiri (uh/they) was born in Kabul and is currently based in Germany. As a performer, choreographer, curator, and empowerment trainer, Amiri works across disciplines and media. Shaped by experiences in border spaces and studies in political science in Hamburg and Bordeaux, their practice centers on de-/coloniality, displacement, non-binary practices and empowerment. Amiri explores how contemporary art at the intersections of race, class, gender, and ableism can disrupt colonial narratives. In addition, Amiri is the curatorial director of the Implantieren Festival 2026 and sits on the board of ID_Frankfurt e.V., where they advance intersectional approaches in dance & performance. Since 2015, they have been engaged with the AfghanRefugeeMovement, advocating against deportations.
Information on Accessibility:
On both evenings, there will be alternative seating options available, for example for people with chronic pain. A relaxed area with beanbags and a good view of the stage will be set up. Please note that Wiesenburg Berlin is not fully accessible: there are no wheelchair-accessible restrooms, and the path to the studio includes some physical barriers.
Everyone who feels more comfortable in a relaxed atmosphere is warmly welcome to get to know the venue some minutes before other people enter it, move around freely during the event, and make noise if needed. You are also free to leave and re-enter the event at any time. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide a separate quiet room. The same goes for people with children: you are warmly welcome to attend, though we cannot offer childcare.
We know that our current set-up only meets some access needs, but we are committed to reducing barriers as much as we can. If you have any questions, suggestions, or particular needs, please don’t hesitate to reach out in advance. We will do our best to find a good solution together.
You can contact us at barrierefreiheit@tanzpol-berlin.de
The tanzpol mentoring program is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community and with funds from the funding program “Weltoffenes Berlin 2025”. With the kind support of the Institut francais and the French Ministry of Culture as well as the Goethe-Institute in Exile, Impure Company and Wiesenburg Berlin.
19. & 20. July 2025 | Haute Cuisine Sonore – mit vollem Mund singen
Anna Clementi & Claudia Schmitz
Haute Cuisine Sonore – mit vollem Mund singen combines passion,
humour and expertise in a new kind of translation project. In the
interplay of taste, food and the associated sounds during preparation
and ingestion, the two artists Anna Clementi and Claudia Schmitz
invite you to a crossover of taste, sound and gestures in the form of
a performance for all the senses on 19. and 20. July 2025 in the
Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin. The performance draws on the traditions
of Fluxus as well as those of contemporary real-time performance and
invites the audience to eat and listen together.
27.-29. June | Sommerfest.ival 2025
The annual Tanzhalle and Werkhalle Wiesenburg summer festival!
Three days of performances, installations, readings, concerts and a VHS club among other treasures – an art market along the Panke on Saturday and a children’s painting workshop and face painting for kids on Sunday.
Throughout the weekend: an exhibition, a sound installation, film screenings, and a vegetarian buffet in the Tanzhalle garden.
The Sommerfest.ival 2025 is supported by the production location funding of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion – Culture Division and the Pankstrasse Neighbourhood Management.
13 + 14 June 2025 | ABBAU OST – Theater play for teens (ages 14+) and adults
Where does this anger come from, citizens? Where does the violence come from? Why is it so loud right now?
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Four children of the post-reunification generation ask themselves what has happened to families who no longer talk about politics, who only argue and no longer understand each other. ‘ABBAU OST’ examines the upbringing of a generation, explores the differences and similarities between previous generations, and challenges the established narrative of the reunification of the two German states as either a success story or a tale of sacrifice.
WE
We are the ones who moved away.
The escaped
The fleeing
The Disappeared.
The cursed.
We, in our camouflage trousers,
Our pink shirts did not protect us.
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What is happening to families who can no longer talk about politics without arguing or remaining silent? And why is the gaze so often turned eastward when right-wing violence is discussed?
A team of children born after German reunification attempts to engage in conversation with their parents’ generation, sometimes questioning, sometimes pleading and sometimes angrily accusatory. The parents’ intense experiences of transformation clash with the children’s processes of appropriation — Abbau Ost (Dismantling East).
With: Florian Kroop, Julek Kreuzer, Thea Rasche and Martin Schnippa | Artistic direction: Stefanie Thalheim and Rico Wagner | Stage and costumes: Christine Ruynat | Text: Elias Kosanke | Dramaturgy: Kathleen Rabe | Production management: Luisa Kaiser | Video installation: Jara López Ballonga | Trailer and video documentation: Rolando Octavio González Quiros | Direction: Rico Wagner | Research: Stefanie Thalheim.
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12th + 13th of April 2025 | TO GÆTHER | PRACTICE SHARING WEEKEND organised by Jan Lorys, Johanna Ackva and members of the mobile ensemble
Dear dancers, movers, participants, practitiones and curious people,
TO GÆTHER is a weekend of sharing practices of dancing, moving and beyond. It is initiated by Jan Lorys and Johanna Ackva as well as other dancers and artists of the mobile ensemble and beyond. It is generously hosted by Tanzhalle Wiesenburg.
TO GÆTHER was born by the wish to come together and to gather experiences, interests and skills that exist among the mobile ensemble and at its periphery, to explore well known and new materials and research interests with each other, and to share bits and pieces of our work with each other and other colleagues in the Berlin dance and performance scene.
Link to the whole program and sign-up: riseup.net
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April 2nd – 5th | premiere of Close by, So far – Landscapes of Infinity will be presented as a double bill together with Bodies of Light at the Sophiensæle in Berlin.
Come and see!
Close by, So far – Landscapes of Infinity is an oscillation between detail and expanse, born out of a longing for contemplation and healing in an age of crisis. The work is inspired by literary works such as The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which vast landscapes stand as metaphors for a utopian life. Close by, So far – Landscapes of Infinity is both an opposition and a proposal: we insist on our sensibility and our sensual experience. We oppose binary forms of being, seeing and moving: a space of resistance is needed more than ever.
Bodies of Light is based on the solo Solo for Lea (2016) and plays with mutual reflection: two people who follow each other, mirror each other, conceal each other and amplify each other’s contours, rhythms, colours and personal energies. Claudia Tomasi and Yen Lee have each developed their own interpretation of the solo. Now they come together and dance the solo at the same time. At its core, Bodies of Light unfolds at the interface between visual art and dance, between performance and installation, sensual experience and abstraction, and plays with analogies of cubism and Picasso’s drawings from a single stroke.
Info / Tickets: https://sophiensaele.com/de
Credits:
Artistic Direction, Concept, Choreography: Isabelle Schad
Co-Choreography, Dance (Close by, So far): Viviana Defazio, David Kummer, Arantxa Martinez, Alessandra Defazio
Co-Choreography, Dance (Bodies of Light): Claudia Tomasi, Yen Lee
Composition, Sound: Damir Simunovic
Light Design: Bruno Pocheron
Costume Collaboration (Close by, So far): likabari, Arantxa Martinez
Advisor Relaxed Performance: Leo Naomi Baur
Social Media: Rike Nölting
PR, Mediation: Elena Basteri
Production Management: Heiko Schramm
A production by Isabelle Schad in co-production with Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin. Supported by Wiesen55 e.V.
Photo 1: Close by, So far – Landscapes of Infinity, Mayra Wallraff, all rights reserved
Photo 2: Bodies of Light, Dieter Hartwig, all rights reserved
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February 15th 2025 | UnStumm meets Friends
Tanzhalle Wiesenburg | doors open 8 pm, performance starts 8:30pm
Katie Porter – Bass Clarinet
Sarmen Almond – Voice & Electronics
Lucio Capece – Bass Clarinet, mini speakers in feedback
Nicola L. Hein – Guitar, Electronics
Claudia Schmitz – Unfolded Screen, Expanded Live Moving Image
UnStumm – conversation of moving image, movement and sound is a longterm project of Nicola L. Hein & Claudia Schmitz
Unstumm is a collaborative intermediate project that brings together video artists and musicians. The aim is to create an environment of cultural and creative exchange in which a common, complex, transmedial artistic language is invented and used to convey narratives, textures, collisions, combinations and attractions of the visual and the sonic. Together with an exploration of the potential of the space as a sounding body and sculpture , the group will present a real-time movie (Echtzeitfilm) composed in the moment.