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No Sound is Innocent XIII

with Blixa Bargeld & Dror Feiler

Performance for voice, reed instruments, electronics, and musical ensemble: German industrial rock legend Blixa Bargeld performs his epigrams in the spirit of Brecht to music by his longtime friend, Swedish composer, musician and political activist Dror Feiler.

music

Eigenständige Stimmen

with Zafraan Ensemble

The renowned Berlin-based Zafraan Ensemble presents a multicultural concert programme, featuring premieres of works by Leonid Desyatnikov, Michaela Catranis, Mansoor Hosseini, and Samir Odeh-Tamimi.

dance

Run Time Anomaly

by Simon Steen-Andersen feat. Sasha Waltz & Guests Youth Dance Company

World premiere of a site-specific performance at the Akademie der Künste, featuring the Youth Dance Company of Sasha Waltz & Guests. Commissioned and produced by Voices Berlin Festival.

dance
interdisciplinary

Forever Lost

by Yulia Arsen

An interdisciplinary two-part project exploring nostalgia, ghost futures, and collective memory through the lens of creepy post-Soviet rituals.

performance

The New Genius Experience of The Great Atomic Bombreflector

by Rustem Begenov and Alexandra Morozova (ORTA)

A performance by a Kazakh artist collective that uniquely combines theater, ritual practices, traditional magic, music and singing, along with invented technological gadgets, into a playful yet impactful séance.

theater

Travelers

by Árpád Schilling

A poetic performance by renowned Hungarian director Árpád Schilling: the story of the Lithuanian Youth Theatre across generations, created through improvisations based on singing.

music

Balkan Affairs

with Neue Vocalsolisten

Seven performative works for voices and electronics: the vocal ensemble and seven composers from the states of former Yugoslavia explore the effects of the Balkan wars, offering their individual, empathetic artistic perspectives on this turbulent period.

theater

The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner

by Collective Ma'louba

A deeply personal work by a Syrian theater collective, based on the true story of a fugitive Nazi criminal, raising searing questions about justice, exile, accountability, and political memory.

theater

Das Land, das ich liebe

based on book by Elena Kostyuchenko

A theatrical installation based on the documentary book by journalist Elena Kostyuchenko, exploring the reality of contemporary Russia and the struggle to maintain a relationship with a homeland slipping into darkness.

music

Wanderer

with Dmitry Batalov

Piano Recital by Dmitry Batalov. Works by Helmut Lachenmann / Leonid Hrabovsky / Giya Kancheli / Franz Schubert

theater

LA LETTRE

by Milo Rau

Renowned Swiss theater director, Milo Rau, explores the events that change the course of a life and creates a performance that serves as a manifesto for what popular theater can be today. Festival d'Avignon 2025 premiere.

theater

Krystian Lupa

Author Readings

theater

Nino Haratischwili

Author Readings

Marius Ivaškevičius with Barzu Abdurazzakov

Author Readings

theater

Aleksandr Plotnikov, Mikhail Durnenkov

Author Readings

performance

The ABC of Exclamations

by Vera Burlak and Kastuś Žybul

An artistic interpretation of the Belarusian alphabet by poet Vera Burlak and her son Kastuś Zhybul, who lives with autism.

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