With this piece, which just celebrated its premiere, Cia. PSIRC presents a part of their newly created series After All, which deals with the literary genre of sagas and their current references. Using the tools of contemporary circus, they embark on an artistic journey of exploration: They take us through a thicket of fictional-biographical stories into dystopian images of the future that tell us more about today than tomorrow. A profound, abstract circus drama with a look at the edges of social norms.
The good thing about being dead is that it reminds us that we are alive. It is a birthday party, the balloons are blown up and candles are lit. A man sits alone waiting for his guests, but no one comes. This dark circus thriller full of morbid humour and acrobatics tells of a complicated relationship. Ternura y Chocolate is both shocking and moving. The show deals with mental illness and there will be a small audience discussion afterwards.
Boutelis is the Arabic term that describes the state of semi-consciousness between waking, sleeping and dreaming. In a fascinating aesthetic, Cie. Lapsus present a strange universe and surreal dream worlds full of mystical figures. Doors do not serve as entrances or exits, but draw the artists deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of sleep. Kite flights, juggling and acrobatics lead them into distorted realities and playful fantasy worlds.
Three nationalities, three jugglers, three objects. 45 minutes of humour, madness and secret techniques never seen by a human audience before. In the Piti Peta Hofen Show, the jugglers' three different personal styles intermingle, but they are always united by a restless enthusiasm for balls, rings and clubs. They call it extreme poetry: a dramaturgical style in which the concepts of improvisation and acting combine in a dimension of creative chaos.
Vu/Vue is a wordless solo piece about life's little obsessions. At the interface between object theatre, miniature circus and involuntary clowning, we meet a manipulator of everyday objects with a meticulous character. In the most ingenious way, the show illuminates the small everyday neuroses that can become morbid obsessions. A humorous insight into the abysses of the seemingly unspectacular. At at.tension, Cie. Sacékripa presents her solo piece in two different casts: Vu with Etienne Manceau and Vue with Amélie Venisse. On Saturday and Sunday, the shows will take place at the Datscha.
Far from the usual social conventions, four sisters celebrate their late father's birthday. But the celebration gets out of control. There is fighting, dancing and singing. Mourning, masturbation and vomiting. As consistently loving and brutal as only families can be. An electrifying conflation of circus and theatre. Soror deals with the abysses of family, loss, grief and rage - transgressive, absurd and deafeningly funny.
Everything is fucked, but not everything is lost yet. Based on this premise, La Barque Acide take us on a post-apocalyptic circus trip. It is the end of the world as we know it. It is the toast that lands on the wrong side. The nine artists from eight nations invite you to one last round, a plunge into the fray and a dive into unseen absurdities. A fresh, multi-faceted and extraordinary circus show.
This performative electro-punk band from Finland has recently been entering theatre stages, bringing theatre, circus and music together in the freshest of ways. The trio of sweet darkness offers luxurious soul manicures and a discotheque of the unknown. Noise Juice is a rotten egg that will make you cringe in the most beautiful way. Inspired by grannies and electronic music, these three performers showcase their multidisciplinary skills. With a 5G connection to heaven and hell.
The group My!Laika has temporarily given up on really understanding the world. They decide to re-late to the incomprehensible and create their own phantasmagorical universe. In this absurd circus performance, the acrobats show that other perceptions are possible in the same and always the same reality. A love affair between the real, appearances and the swan-shaped pedal boat lost at the North Pole.
The two cardboard clowns from Coulrophobia return to Lärz with their latest production Big Boys Don't Cry. This time with an emotionally ridiculous piece about themselves, about being men. With crisps, corpses and action figures, they dig beneath the surface with relish. In a riot of object theatre, dance and mischief, Dik and Adam take you on a brilliant investigation, full of heart and close to the bone. Men LOL.
Siegfried & Joy have catapulted themselves from the Magic Underground into the heart of the serious magic scene in the recent years. With unbridled humour and charming magic, they levitate objects, perform mystical teleportations and read the minds of their audience. With glitter, dance and extensive self-irony, they even win over magic sceptics and dust off magic shows that were thought to be boring. Amazing down to the last tip of the magic wand.
Adhok return to at.tension with their latest promenade theatre in their trilogy of generations, this time with Watchful. Watchful is about the questions of a woman and a man around the age of 50 who look back on the most important stages of their lives. A flashback through the decades and the stages of life: from couple to family, to the children moving out and all the way to the beginning of ageing. The show looks at this intimate family history, interspersed with the upheavals of the times without nostalgia.
Can we experience the world with the utmost sensitivity? The inspiration for this moving solo piece by Ari Teperberg was a letter written by the deaf-blind author Helen Keller to the New York Symphony Orchestra in 1924, in which she describes how she "heard" Beethoven's 9th Symphony by feeling the vibrations of the radio's speaker membrane. It is a search for an alternative language to communicate across boundaries, disability and loneliness.
The Danish duo from Asterions Hus venture into Shakespeare's greatest love story: Romeo and Juliet as you have never seen it before. Right at the beginning, they build the tomb of the famous couple. In a fast-paced, funny performance they show 24 different scenes, aberrations as well as abrupt endings. They become dancing worms, sumo wrestlers in love and perform delicate ballet in wheelbarrows. Never before has so much life come from playing with death.
Quizas is a radical poetic act. The show moves between a physical performance and a danced conversation. The two artists manage to illuminate the corny topic of love in a fresh and touching way. As tools they use interviews, sociological references, personal experiences and a good pinch of humour. A hymn to love, a sharing of our doubts, our longings and laughter.
Two musicians sit back to back: On one side a musician with a ronroco, a rough-sounding guitar. On the other side, a percussionist with a drum and cymbals. But one seems to be just a fake. In this new variation of the one-man orchestra, the brilliant Santiago Moreno merges with a puppet. An original creation between reality and illusion that should be heard with open eyes.
An elaborate puppet theatre with frantic speed, unleashed comedy and unexpected twists. The famous character of Poli(chinelle) is based on a 400-year-old tradition and is brought to the stage in its wildest outbursts by the two puppeteers of Cie. La Pendue. however, Polichinelle has no desire for theatre and, as expected, nothing goes as planned. For Poli laughs at everything, including death.
Near a small park, two men in balaclavas on a suspicious mission are spotted in a Twingo. The two brothers seem willing to risk everything to fulfil their mission. Full of visual humour and without fancy words, Goodbye Persil is a little road trip about complicity and a proper break from too much adult life. A tribute to life, viewed through somewhat smeared glasses.
Little Garden is a small window into an unknown jungle. An animalistic juggling solo by Fabrizio Solinas, who has studied the behaviour of animals from courtship dance to territorial behaviour down to the smallest detail. With incredible body language and transformation skills, he creates a naturalistic immersion and a raw, loud display of animal behaviour. This show is an invitation to stimulate the imagination and an ode to life and wildlife.
How does it start? Fall-in is that little giddy feeling before the yes. The sweet moment when the heart guides you more than the mind and we are ready to take any risk. Full of intimacy and closeness, the duo show their YES to each other in their acrobatics and search for balance between their own lives and the bond of their relationship. A heart-warming piece about love, between risk-taking, trust, doubt and letting go.
Bakéké means bucket in Hawaiian and Fabrizio Rosselli has brought a whole pile of them with him. The buckets become objects of play and with inventive ideas he creates new geometric formations again and again. Between object manipulation and clowning, he stubbornly confronts the seemingly impossible. Without words, the show gives an imaginative insight into absurd and obsessive worlds of a playful dreamer.
Spaceship earth is not enough? All in One takes us to new spheres. 2 dancers and 2 musicians investigate the phenomena of the universe and question the human striving for expansion in a galactic performance. Gravitational forces determine the dance. The live performed composition goes from the sci-fi sound of the 70s to soundscapes from the middle of the black hole. With dance, light and sounds, you will be catapulted into new galaxies.
Mandragora is a poisonous medicinal plant from the nightshade family that has been used ritually since a very long time and to which magical properties are attributed. In a physically impressive performance, the puppeteer deals with discrimination, the experience of violence and the othering of homosexuals. In this intense piece, he expands the aesthetic means of puppet theatre with body and movement techniques of physical theatre.
In what key does a T-Rex sing and what is the vocal range of a brontosaurus? To this day, palaeon-tology remains silent on the most important questions in its field. In DINOPERA, Triceratops, Ar-chaeopterix and Co. sing about the tragedy of their own extinction on a baroque theatre stage. The group KHWOSHSC combines Czech puppetry with German opera. In their tragic story, they raise awareness of the impermanence of all life. With a good dose of humour.
CAFEÏNE is energetic dance and rap, created in a participatory process. It is a call by four women to enter their neighbourhood and share with them the rage of their daily lives between confrontation, frustration and sisterhood. Somewhere between trying to enjoy life to the fullest and breaking out of it. The performance shows the (over)life of young people in marginalised neighbourhoods and questions the place of women in public space and on the street.
Les filles du renard pâle conceived Résiste as a physical and technical challenge: For over 40 minutes, the rope artist defies gravity on an unstable wire rope at a height of almost five metres. Accompanied by the driving live music of the singer on the ground. Each resists in her own way. The piece is a breathtaking high-wire dance and unstable tightrope act symbolic of life. A plea for resistance and risk-taking.
In Slaughterhouse Blues, every animal has a different fate. In his macabre, grotesque show, Luigi Ciotta tells about our society's ambivalent relationship to animals and meat consumption. Between physical theatre, puppetry and clowning, he manages to bring an explosive topic onto the stage without words or finger-pointing. A bitterly witty play full of animal magic tricks before every single one of them ends up on the slaughter bench.
With The Third Dance, the duet revisits a seminal piece of Israeli dance by Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal and looks at it from a contemporary perspective. As a couple in life and on stage, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor present a dance piece that tells of a long-term relationship. At the beginning they serve romantic clichés, which they increasingly expose. Of love and desire, everyday life and drifting apart. A clever and touching work full of intimate insights.
A right-wing extremist network with links to the military counterintelligence service, the army and the police. Men with access to both the highest levels of security as well as to weapons and ammunition of the German executive forces. The key figure in this network is the former KSK soldier (special commando forces) André Schmitt. Three actresses tell the story of the toxic male Hannibal complex, create a chronology of events and ask questions to which there are no easy answers.
After spending his childhood marvelling at circuses in his hometown, Mr. Jones decided to fulfil a dream and start his own. Taming tigers, double somersaulting and fire-eating were just some of his goals. When the first doubts arose about his career choice, he started looking for a partner. He bought Fred, the little pig. Together they perform the most dangerous tricks: The Ride Through Hell, Nerves Of Steel and The Jump To Death.
Only a few days after the death of his young wife, the doorbell of the father of two rings. He opens it and looks into the face of a larger-than-life crow: " I am not leaving until you no longer need me", the feathered animal announces and moves into the flat. Max Porter's richly pictorial novel serves as the template for this unbridled production about coping with grief. A topic that no one likes and concerns us all.
After years of practising the solitary art of one-man bands, playing many instruments simultaneously, Martin Kaspar, Santiago Moreno and Karl Stets got together and formed Oktopus Orkestars. As a trio of one-man bands, they deliver an eccentric musical cabaret. The three musicians bring together in-struments of rare inventiveness and juggle through the world of sounds. A polyinstrumental beauty that intoxicates the ears.
Siegfried & Joy have catapulted themselves from the Magic Underground into the heart of the serious magic scene in the recent years. With unbridled humour and charming magic, they levitate objects, perform mystical teleportations and read the minds of their audience. With glitter, dance and extensive self-irony, they even win over magic sceptics and dust off magic shows that were thought to be boring. Amazing down to the last tip of the magic wand.
Deadly, dirty and dangerous. This feminist punk circus from Belfast offers absurd acrobatics, twisted humour and the unconventional use of household appliances. A D.I.Y. Performance that celebrates the wild and untamed. The two award-winning female artists are: Angelique Reckless Ross, who was once Australian Axe Throwing Champion and Mish Mash Thoburn, who first learned acrobatics while running from the cops during riots in Northern Ireland.
Heavy Motors is almost impressive acrobatics and rhythmic gymnastics with flutter tape. Three people in colourful tracksuits and a half-repaired car make for a festival of stunts. In this absurd, energetic road movie, technical incidents cause surprises and disasters. The group proves that you can go far without a driving licence. Three geniuses of the imperfect invite you to fail with elegance and style.
The most hated clowns put on an anarchic show and a frenetic theatrical performance. They dare an experiment of comic extremism full of chaos, noise and destruction. In their search for the necessary wild freedom of the clown, they have unconsciously found extraordinary role models: Children! Childlike, they throw themselves on the floor, break everything they can get their hands on and fight with stuffed animals. An explosive mixture of comedy and provocation.
The artist duo Treß/Burz takes aim at furrows, cracks and rubbish. With the help of an endoscope camera and electro-acoustic machinery, they go in search of the aesthetic, visual and acoustic stimuli of these supposedly non-places. The materials found are examined via live camera-travel and the view through the highly magnifying lens reverses the proportions. Unexpected perspectives and sounds of the overlooked places.
For the first time this year, we are offering an at.tension Soli jumper, the proceeds of which will cover part of the massively increased production costs. The very limited jumpers in the colour "anthracite" will be sold at the Supporter Care directly opposite the "Kino". Price: 50 - 60 €
Cosmic Cable connects friends, foes, fools and this year for the first time planets and asteroids. The phone booths in the transit area Lärz gleam with newfound splendor. We offer: obscure conversations, status boxes and humorous hotlines. SPECIAL AT.TENSION 2022: start a scavenger hunt for young and old alike at any of the telephone booths and discover new sides of the festival site! More information on the posters.
Bravo, bravissimo! A thrilling show by the famous maestro Toni Ronaldoni, winner of the Golden Tapir of San Benedetto. In just two minutes, a maximum of eleven visitors experience an incomparable revival of the traditional circus. An absurdly funny marquee attraction, an extremely entertaining showpiece and a milestone in the long history of the Dutch group. Two minutes that will enrich your festival visit.
Put on a new head for a short while and escape from the hectic outside world. Electric Circus create new worlds with a combination of analogue electronics, animatronics and self-developed software. Headspace is a miniature theatre for one person at a time. In dim light, you experience a fully automated spectacle and decelerating mechanics. Welcome to a non-virtual reality and a break from excessive screen time.
The campfire is upside down under the flaming sky. Every night from nightfall onwards, the Zündkollektiv invites you to come to rest and spend some time, to warm up and to look up at the flaming sky together. Once again this year, you can dream away under the giant fireball accompanied by the finest music.
Radio ballet is an interactive performance art in which the audience themselves become performers. Equipped with radio headsets, you become part of a performative intervention by following instruc-tions from the piece and interacting with the other participants. The body radio collective has various pieces in its repertoire at the at.tension: Playground on future festival culture, Good Crop, Bad Crop on the topic of agricultural policy, Mensch/Maschine (Man/Machine) or Utopie/Dystopie (Uto-pia/Dystopia).
From hitman for the Brooklyn Mafia to healer. After Charlie O'Taney unexpectedly inherited a healing gift, he was forced to make an abrupt career change. Climb into the Miraculous Theatre Company's car and experience your own personal miracle in the mobile "therapy room" in just a few minutes. One to four people at a time can enter the veritable cabinet of wonders for entertaining, refreshing individual, couple or family treatments.
People who keep a close eye on nature could be in luck in 2022: It is said that in early autumn, gigantic giant mice and enormous desmanes will meet in Mecklenburg in the Röbel/Müritz area to mate. Not only do they eat money, but they also feed on stray techno-zombies and wandering cable monsters. With a bit of luck, you can witness the spectacular birth of an apocalyptic festival mouse ... BUT BE CAREFUL: PLEASE DO NOT FEED IT! Artists who have collaborated with Stefanie Oberhoff’s (puppetry/visual arts) are working with young people from the area fo rthis project. In the weeks leading up to the festival, figures will be created from the old and the new, which will not adhere to any boundaries. Lärz, Mirow, Rechlin: Watch out!
Hey, the dogs! Even though we usually ask you to leave all guinea pigs, cats and other animals at home, we will make an exception for Pieter Post. In addition to his stunt pig Fred, he has also brought along a couple of poodles, which he will spontaneously take for a walk on the grounds. In a beige trench coat, black bowler hat and with the necessary seriousness, he takes a mop for a walk. A simple and funny walking act. Almost too silly to put into words.
Putting the Fun back into Failure. The Losers Arcade is the unique arcade where you have Nothing to Prove. If you were born to lose and enjoy silly challenges, then this is the place for you. With lots of interactive games, 80s trash, plenty of nonsense and a brand new virtual reality experience. Be sure: here you are among friends, because Winners are Always Alone.
The Office of Public Disorder is back and invites you to a makeover with live screen printing on skin and clothes. With glitter, gloom, music and charm, they will make you and your clothes shine in new splendour. Bring your clothes to the Public Disorder Office at Planhof Bahnlos or they will find you somewhere on site with their mobile screen printing. Pimp your inner rhinoceros! But DruckiZucki!
Desperate, he sits in his greasy dressing room. Exhausted, and too fond of the bottle, he waits to get on stage. Or has he just come off the stage? This visual and surprising performance tells the story of a weird artist with massive blackout problems. The audience gets a glimpse behind the scenes, where things are not as glamorous as one might think. But the harder it is for the actor, the funnier it gets for the audience.
You stand at the burning barricade, teargas bites your nose, the water cannon comes from the right, followed immediately by the cops to clear the occupied house. Adrenalin is flowing. Now it is up to you: Take a breath and stop the cops on their way into the occupied house with the slingshot and earn a small profit per hit. But be careful: shooting a slingshot can be addictive.
I know a man who can be driven to despair by even the smallest decision. “Sonst Schoko“ is an ice-cream purchase with difficulties, it is a puppet-theatrical narrative on a hawker’s tray stage. Adeline Rüss tells of the impossibility of making a choice, of unintentional ebelliousness and the courage of one's own logic. It is a call to weirdness, this simple ice cream purchase that leads to complete chaos.
The "Büro für brenzlige Angelegenheiten" (Office of Burning Affairs) will prove incredible things. The pyromaniac Eddie Egal has set up his pyronautical experimental field by a small pool away from the hustle and bustle of the festival. With the help of fine cocktails, he will conduct secret experiments there and show that water can possibly catch fire after all.
Ben Pavlidis, singer and lyricist of the Berlin band Ohrbooten, writes children's songs together with his daughter. There are fabulous animal stories, defiant criticism of annoying parents and profound questions to bob along to. D!E GÄNG is cross-generational: at their concerts, children and parents celebrate each other, there is laughter, frolicking and cheeky rapping.
Ring-a-ding-ding, watch out! Here comes the elf Enzia on the run from the end of time. In her luggage she has brought her own paradise with a mountain full of stories. Up on the mountain lives a stoat who wants to make the world a better place and is waiting for a brilliant, all-changing idea to do so. For this, he needs serenity, balance and coffee. A mobile fairy tale for children on a stage wheel. Let yourself be surprised and make yourself comfortable in the sit-down strike.
Welcome to the country of wishes. Here you can ride on tigers or fly over the sea like a pelican. Two wonderfully shady scoundrels become wish-fulfillers. They jump over all shadows and plunge with you into glitter and glory. They let the perfect world of superficial happiness pass by and flash abysses. They pave the way for the real dreams in which you find yourself. A cheeky, lustful puppet show about longings and desires.
Emma and her parents want everything to be perfect this Christmas. This leads to pure stress during what should be a reflective time. When the Christmas goose disappears, the chaos is complete. So why not have spaghetti on Christmas Eve? But suddenly the doorbell rings: one after the other, neighbours arrive, bringing food with them, and everyone celebrates together. A heart-warming story about a wonderfully imperfect Christmas.
Anton has been looking forward to the lantern parade at the kindergarten for days. Then everything goes wrong: First Anton accidentally makes a monster lantern, followed by Dad getting it stuck in the car door, and during the lantern procession it falls into a puddle and turns into a sad lump of paper. However, a mysterious man comes to their rescue and gives Anton a rather unusual lantern. A magical picture book about sharing.
The Princess of Determe lives up to her name. She wants to determine everything: when she goes to bed, what her birthday guests should do, even what the weather will be like. But one day she meets a little girl who can be just as stubborn as the princess herself. And the princess realises that sometimes other people have good ideas too. A picture book about stubbornness, friendship and change.
For most children, both big and small, the entire festival site is a huge playground. Nevertheless, we want to create a special area with the Kids Space, which is intended exclusively for kids. There will be bubbles, a ball pool, face painting and a treasure hunt to make children's hearts beat faster. There will be tape art, soldering, programming and music workshops for the little ones. From relaxation in the reading and in the radio play cave to a children's disco, there is everything here. Do not leave your kids there alone, have fun together and look out for each other!
The chicken is happy because the rabbit gives it a box for its birthday. But what? There is nothing in it at all! A Box of Nothing is a trip into the imagination with lots of wit and creativity. The lovingly il-lustrated story by Lena Hesse shows children in this picture book that sometimes it just takes a little ingenuity to do a lot with ordinary things!
Muckemacher turns kid‘s listening habits upside down. Their music grooves with cumbia, ska, rocksteady, hip hop, mambo, dub and funk. So it's no wonder that their songs immediately want to get into the legs of both kids and adults. The content is about fun, friends and chocolate, but also about more serious topics like bullying, environmental protection and tolerance. Children songs for everyone!
The children have spread out in Mrs. Riesin's garden. The giantess rages in the green and insists on her property. Will she realise how beautiful it is to share, or will she keep her garden only for herself? In a musical narrative, Irene Fas Fita and Vanessa Thüring give new life to this well-known story. A children's play about discoveries, transformations and sharing. Full of humour and sensitivity.
Together we build sound machines from found everyday objects (old toys, empty cans, cardboard, etc.). We bring these things to (new) life by connecting them to motors, electrical circuits and microcontrollers so that they can produce sounds all by themselves. It is all about finding interesting sounds, experimenting with materials and technology as well as the temporal aspect of rhythm, and of course building the machines.
Abracadabra! Siegfried & Joy present magic for children from the age of 4. With their family show, they take all generations on a glittering journey! Sensational illusionism packed into an explosion of glitter, fun and tiger skin. Guaranteed youth-free - guaranteed magical - guaranteed interactive: If you have ever wanted to get on stage yourself, or want to watch your parents become magic stars, this is your magical chance.
The group Zirkusmaria has made it their mission to explore and show unconventional topics in inappropriate theatre for children. They have created the first trilogy in theatre for children - with a focus on empowerment. After the plays Zuhause (At Home) in 2017 and Zusammen (Together) in 2019, this year at.tension there is the Future to see. What kind of world is conceivable? How do children want to live in the future? No one can know what it will be like, but it was beautiful.
Acidfinky (she/they) is a German/Algerian DJ and producer based in Berlin. She is one of the co-founders of BLVSH, a feminist DJ collective, a resident at THF radio and owner of Twisting Knobs Records. Her sets incorporate genres with heavy drums and basslines such as bass, breaks, electro, UKG and dubstep.
Aller Ende Anfang is a berlin based crew and label, regularly organizing events in Humboldthain Club and ://about blank.
A dark baritone voice, somewhere between Nick Cave and Stuart Staples, that is A.S. Fanning, Irish musician, to whom the genre of folk-noir probably fits like no other. The focus is on the lyrical, the tradition of great Irish writers is inherent in his work and transports us directly into mostly dark, sometimes even post-apocalyptic worlds.
Baumarkt stays Baumarkt stays. Whatever this means. Art is our boss!
Classical cello, electronic cello & one voice. Bison Rouge takes the listener:inside on distant journeys with electronic, pulsating, multi-layered orchestral pieces.
Rap played on tight beats from live drums, flowing rhythm and harmonies. High on life itself and inspired by love, tears, the sun, the moon, noise and silence, cesco.blz brings the soul and feelings back into a German rap scene dominated by toxic masculinity.
The CherrYO!kie Dance Party, is a celebration of the queer experience, empowering and connecting their guests through collective song & dance powered by karaoke and CherrYO!graphy. CherrYO!kie is a Berlin-based collective of multi-talented queer performers, singers, dancers, visual artists and event producers from around the world.
While using a classic set-up of live drums, bass and rhythm guitar, masterfully layered with dub echo/delay effects, Chillera delivers a playful yet ingenious psychedelic sound, aimed to melt down your hearts and tingle your ears with Black Sea breezes. Chillera mixes together the berries of surf rock, dub-rhythms ripened on the southern soil and greens of funky ornaments. It sounds juicy, naturalistic, relaxed and, most importantly, fresh.
special techno and trance set
Minimal Sex Punk from Berlin - Coming to rock you into the AWESOMESPHERE!!!!!! Derek "The King" Snipes pilots the rockship on axe and vox Partial Simon hammers the bass through your thorax And Snake Bitch slaps those skins like a Frau possessed!
Psychedelic Techno
Die Schlangenknaben are a synthesis of the art with music, costume, figure and discourse. Three-part singing, sounds and compositions from 5 centuries interweave with raucous club sounds and bizarre choreography. Schumann, Purcell and Sephardic folk tunes with boom-glitch rhythms. Dirty high culture. Open to genre and gender, and not too shabby for anything themselves.
Diva Daneben performs passionate, gentle and surprising softpunk with catchy melodies and complex lyrics. With guitar, accordion, influences from blues, anti-folk and punk.
DJ Hornhaut is already famous in the so called Internet for songs like „Rebecca“, „Frankfurter Aale“ or „Tragt euch in den Doodle ein“. Now, the singer-songwriter brings his songs tot he stages with his live band. Yes, there will be moshpits.
Roap - that's half rap/half soap. With their musical future thriller "Wack to the Future", Dlé are once again firing from all cylinders: there is rapping, singing, dialoguing, lecturing, demagogizing, digital and analog music-making, polarization from binary to polyharmonic. Androids rap, promiscuous actors twerk, nanobot swarms sing, while in the prayer branch of humanoism a polyphonic priest explains the religion of the machines. Storytelling rap & concept stories from real specialists!
From global sounds with West African influences to Afrobeats, Afro-fusion, electronics, neo-soul, psychedelic pop and more, Donia Touglo draws on a variety of genres and styles and expresses them in her own way. As "Everything that feels good for my soul" or "Soul infused World Jam", the singer, actress and performance artist describes the colorful kaleidoscope of her work.
Enchanting, somehow whimsical and somewhat obsessive. A post-punk pop quartet that leaves spiritual traces. I want to believe!
A rat combo from Berlin consisting of the screaming-awesome vocals of Jenny Pepps and the beats of producer Robkob600e.
Cridacompany is a French-Catalan ensemble, born from the meeting of Jur Domingo and Julien Vittecoq at the Lido (center of circus arts in Toulouse). The project JUR performs as a musical trio of double bass, guitar and vocals, between chanson, folk, big emotions and circus.
Piano music from Eric Satie and Jürgen Kurz.
NEVER TRUST YOUR MANAGER. Underground Rap straight from London!
Wenn am Abend das orangefarbene Licht in den Gassen angeknipst und das Klirren der Gläser zu hören ist, dann ist es Zeit für einen kleinen Schluck buntes Treiben. Pfeffer die Maskerade in die Ecke und lass dich auf deine Eingeweide rutschen. Die Nacht ist eröffnet, das Wohnzimmer wartet auf die Show.
Earth * Earth is a tribute to our sensitive planet and its nature. Special piano frequencies invite you to land in presence again and again. Enjoy spherical notations and gentle snapshots on the piano. Live interpreted by Laura Weider.
Post-punk hardcore trio from Berlin. Spherical, creaky loops, distorted voices and a lot of space for dreams in the rough sounds.
The Lehmanns Brothers are a French funk band who played opening shows for real holy monsters like Wu-Tang Clan. Subtle jazz and funk tunes from the 70s blend into a touch of hip-hop and neo-soul.
LELÉKA ("Stork") is a young Berlin quartet around Ukrainian singer Viktoria, whose voice defines the character and atmosphere of this band's music. The sound world of the band, ranging from dynamic grooving passages to tender folk ballad tones, finds the appropriate framework in a contemporary jazz language.
Liser and Taby Pilgrim have said their "YES" to each other. Both for a album together and a mockumentary to follow. Because how else, than with humor and satire, could they find an answer to the question: How is it like to be a woman in rap? Taby Pilgrim's high-quality rap style combined with Liser's experimental pop influences create a varied live work: punchline thunderstorms meet autotune bangers, rap shakes hands with pop and even country songs. A mixture that has probably never been seen before in hip hop.
As a child of the 90s, she spent her childhood watching MTV and producing mixtapes from radio recordings by artists:inside like Outkast and the Backstreet Boys. In her early 20s, Marie Midori diagnosed herself with a manic compulsion to collect records with that certain indefinable something. In her search for the equation between musical education and vitality for the dancefloor, she combines a wide range of styles in her sets: 90s electro, house and techno to breakbeat, acid and trance.
Mitsune is a Japanese folk fusion band from Berlin and a musical and visual feast that evokes emotion, folkloric imagery, driving grooves and wild associations. They play reinterpreted Japanese folk songs and original tunes with influences from eastern blues, jazz, psychedelic and cinematic music, spiced with their signature joy and magic.
The band project of the two multi-instrumentalists Anna-Lucia Rupp and Fama M'Boup designs a sound cosmos that allows influences, but never understands them as mere ingredients. If there is a fixed point in the Olicía cosmos, then it is the handling of the voice, and by far not only through the use of loop stations and effects. Electronic handmade loop jazz at its best!
The poetry of a corn kernel lies in the fact that it is hard, inconspicuous and ugly. But if you give it enough heat, it turns its innermost to the outside and reveals a rocking, extravagant core. Each individually shaped by the Popcorn Brothers with trumpet, synthesizer, drums, guitar and bass. The Popkornzone promises chaos, and perhaps even adheres to it.
The latest project by Rumo, part of the Leipzig collective Mytripismytrip, contrasts the piano and the sitar and fuses them in improvisation.
Sorah brings raw conscious rap with a strong political message to the stage in English, French and German. In her own mix of ‘in your face rap‘‘, double time flows to grime and souly vibes she raps and sings on producer Spokes' dancy beats against racism, sexism and all forms of oppression calling out for solidarity and freedom. From stage to stage, street to street, Sorah is spreading her power and message with her mindblowing flows! Nique la police et vive la lutte feministe! Es geht weiter!
Spiritczualic Enhancement Center is a spectral trance-jazz ensemble with a psychedelic-punk methodology. Testimonies from their gatherings have actually reported moments of divination - and possibly wizardry!
Your new favorite band from Berlin. Synthesizer-Schlager-punk-wave-post-internet-glamour, philosophy and punk rock. Strunz helps!
Supastar Soundystem is an inclusive DJ collective with currently four members: DJ King Pommes, Luis Lyrisch, DJ K_arim and Bela Patrutzi. On dub, disco, afrobeat, reggae, funk and whatever else comes under their fingers, the MC Luis Lyrisch raps and beatboxes and every now and then the one or other spontaneous guest MC. Inclusion is not a given, but a constant process, which the Soundsystem shapes loudly and with fun!
Systemabsturz is probably the best and worst dataprotection electropunk band in that world. Musically they see themselves between rave-punk, mix-up of Schlager and techno. Top priority of every live concert are tender mosh-pits and side-stepping!
Taffee is queer punk at its finest, no rules, no labels, just four peanut flips in a bathtub.
What we like most about Three Good Boys? First, the number. Second, that they are good, and third: the boys! Three brass instruments, three good boys. Our conclusion: good music doesn't need statistics!
All Queers of the at.tension tune into this Drag-King-Quing and Queen-Show for ears, eyes and brainwaves! Trance4Mation Radio will bring you right off the binary bored lane and into fluid frequencies with dance moves, Lipsync and rave… Zap through sex-positivity, light-show and pop-culture, slightly confused but always straight into the Hertzzzzz
Famous for its wide rage of Tropical Music, The Tropical Timewarp Dj Collective is not shy to bring some rare and unheard bangers to the dancefloor. From Afrofunk to Highlife, Dub and Cumbia the Collective selects everything to make every dance one of a kind!
The Leipzig band Welten reveals to us the wonder of mutual inspiration. Sensitive sound movements develop into spaces between the familiar and the unheard. Contemporary jazz to indulge, drift away and gently come back to!
Suddenly everyone is a feminist. But there is no question of real equality. Why do outdated structures persist? How can they be scrapped? Ann-Kristin Tlusty looks at the inner and outer constraints that still shape women's lives today: They are still expected to "gently" absorb the worries and needs of society. They are expected to appear sexually available in a "sweet" way at all times, even under feminist auspices. And in all this, pleasantly "gentle" should never claim too much maturity. Clever and personal, liberating and new: this polemic shakes up the gender order forever.
Do you do Awareness work and do you often feel like you are the only awareness contact person for everyone? You're not alone! Because we are many (and we will be even more, at best all of them) and we are at the at:tension! Come around! We would like to meet you! We want to do a short introduction and an exchange round and then offer a cozy informal space for networking and exchange. There will be tea and snacks :) In any case, people from AwA*, Fusion Awareness, the Mensch Meier team and the Networking Awareness Institute will be present at the meeting.
Dirk Bernemann, a man who says he writes "out of self-defence", is by no means an at.tension debutant. With a book about a journey into the past and, above all, into the province, he is finally coming back to our province ... Gunnar Bäumer left the province seven years ago in his late twenties to move to Berlin. Now he is returning to his parents' house for a week to "keep house". During these days, the annual Schützenfest is taking place, which he actually wanted to refuse to attend in order to get some peace and quiet. But he cannot escape the festival and within the next few days he has to face village life, his concepts of life and his past, especially his childhood sweetheart Franziska with her husband.
Experimental nude drawing session. When we start to measure, instead of stare, we take a closer look at individual beauty. Celebrate each line, each fold, each valley! Prepare yourself for the funny transmission from 3D into 2D. Everybody can, but nobody has to, pose. Some drawing material will be provided.
Duygu Ağal (she/he) is a queer activist and author from Berlin. In Yeni Yeşerenler, Ağal publishes short stories, essays and diary entries in which he reflects on plural, intersectional representation, queerness, identity politics and their borderlands, and their relation to collectivism and individualism through his own story. Yeni Yeşerenler (the reborn, getting leaves, turning green) are the words of Cennet Yıldırıms, Ağals mother, who gave the title to the anthology. "YY." is an autofiction in which the author creates spaces of meditation without owing authenticity to anyone. // On FRIDAY at the Räuber:innenhöhle and on SATURDAY at the Casino.
Three friends in their late twenties grow up together in a Frisian village. Their friendship gives them the support that their families cannot offer them. Even after they move away, they stand up for each other. But then the secrets from each other pile up and their plans for the future no longer seem to fit together: Hannes wants to return to the village and take over his grandfather's workshop, Nico wants to start a family and Insa continues to drift along, disoriented. Their once inseparable community threatens to break apart. To the soundtrack of DJANGO REINHARDT, …BUT ALIVE and TEAM DRESCH, they travel from Friesland to Catalonia in their converted van. On the way, they explore the limits and possibilities of their relationship with each other. They get lost and argue, celebrate and despair of each other, reconnect with old times and always find each other again. With brutal honesty, they fight for their friendship in an attempt to erase every secret and reservation that could stand between them.
In this workshop we will explore different Jinen Butoh practices. A collective and imaginative process will lead us to end with a Butoh procession through the festival, where the partecipants can apply and combine what they learned during the workshop.
