Der Ozean 

Concept, Direction, Stage Design:
Aliénor Dauchez  
Composition:
Genoël von Lilienstern
Access Dramaturgy:
Athena Lange, Fanny Maugard
Dramaturgy:
Bastian Zimmermann

Sound design: Riccardo Castagnola
Light: Madison Pomarico
Performers:
Dessa Ganda, 
Sabine Scherbel, 
Josefine Mühle


With the support of:
Musikfonds, Région Hauts-de-France, Impuls neue Musik, GVL, Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, SACEM
LOUDsoft, Theaterhaus Mitte, &
SCHRUMPF! funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin
2025

Der Ozean is a multisensory dance and music performance for Deaf and hearing adults, with and without babies. The performance immerses itself in the complex and ambivalent experiences of parenthood – a web of contradictions between care, exhaustion, and tenderness. Inspired by the image of the ocean – a symbol of vastness, change, and protection, of an imagined, inexhaustible maternal source, but also of an open, connecting body of water – the piece approaches the themes of parenthood, care, and dependency from different perspectives. In close interplay of voice, choreography, vibrations, taste, and sign language, a multilayered, collectively perceptible composition emerges, created by Genoël von Lilienstern and La Cage.

BEAUTIFUL 

Direction, Creation & Interpretation:
Daniel Conant 
Ana Rita Xavier  

Light:Madison Pomarico
Sound Design:
Jonas Freidrich
Dramaturgical Support: 
Madison Pomarico

Co-production:
TMP - Teatro Municipal do Porto

DDD Festival 2025


Supported by:
the European Union and Goethe Institute
2025

BEAUTIFUL is a stage set for rebellion. Two performers —caught between being watched and watching themselves—grapple with power, presence, and untamed questions: Who is in control here?

A pedestal stands horseless. Ghosts linger. Marching bands echo. Where power once stood, emptiness reigns. In the absence of authority, the stage becomes a battlefield for the absurd, where performance itself is the weapon. The performers push back, creating a spectacle that is everything at once. ‘Beautiful’ is a tender exploration of liveness, collaboration, and what it means to perform when everything—and nothing—is watching.

Absurd and unapologetically alive. Welcome to the riot.... It’s gunna be BEAUTIFUL

Fighting for Fear   

Direction:
Klara Kirsch
Milena Bühring
Enrico Bordieri 

Light:Madison Pomarico
Stage Design:
Lucy Schmitt 
Co-production:
Ballhaus Ost 
Tatwerk Berlin


Supported by:
The Einstiegsförderung 
of the Berlin Senate
2024

Rhythm, counters, screams, sweat and kicks – is there also room for fear in martial arts training, which is generally associated with aggression and fearlessness? Based on research into the relationship between female fear and patriarchal dominance culture, the multimedia performance explores martial arts as a means of transforming fear into strength. Is it possible as a woman to reclaim a historically male-dominated place and find a new form of togetherness within the rules?

The artists Milena Bühring and Klara Kirsch team up with young kickboxers Aylin Telli, Paulina Karam and the dramaturge Enrico Bordieri. Between gym, TikTok, academic feminism and the reality of life for migrant teenage girls, the team tries to find a way of dealing with fear that can withstand the ambivalence between fantasy and real threat. Will it come to a fight?

Mehr Licht [mir so schlecht]

A low voltage bulb, site specific installation. 

We pay homage to the warm pseudo-spherical devices made of glass, vacuum and tungsten that kept darkness away from us for over a century. Mehr Licht [mir so schlecht] proposes a synaesthetic space where light sounds and sound flares.

Yuki Onna