Music

Divertimento
Elena Revich & Polina Osetinskaya
This duo’s recital explores the history of musical postmodernism from Stravinsky to Silvestrov. Its interaction with tradition ranges from ironic deconstruction to sensual experience

The Tower of Babel
with Klangforum Wien and others
This three-part program explores new music scenes of the former Soviet territories, with two intermissions and panel discussions

Ob aus Luft
Maja Bader / Leonhard Dering / Nicholas Isherwood
World premiere of Boris Filanovsky's "Ob Aus Luft" vocal cycle, based on poems by Maria Stepanova, followed by several German premieres of pieces written specially for bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood

Ereignisse
Neue Vocalsolisten
Theater of voices: The celebrated Stuttgart ensemble presents three world premieres and two Berlin premieres of works specially composed for them.
Dance

Tumbleweed / In da chaos
by Tatiana Chizhikova / by Katya Volkova
Two new solo choreographic works that begin with a shared feeling of shaky ground

The Whip / Fractional Step
Yulia Arsen / Tatiana Chizhikova & Roman Malyavkin
This program brings together artistic positions that share one thing in common: a “twist,” a tipping point after which, just like in real life, nothing is the same anymore
Theater

Museum of Uncounted Voices
by Marina Davydova
A deeply personal journey into the complex formation of the national republics within the USSR, transitioning from what appears to be objective historiography to contradictory and existentially biographical perspectives

Theater of Imagination
Ten' Theater
An experiment in co-production of a performance that takes place in the spectator’s imagination

Dictatorship
AKHE Theater
Performance riot against the dictates of space. Visual immersion into the world of resistance and finding a way out