For around a week, the sixth edition of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin invites you to experience over 100 productions from all genres of the independent performing arts.
The festival shows the current dimension of digital meeting, experiment and opportunity spaces in the independent scene and thus also reacts to the past year without public cultural life. Creativity and creativity have opened up new spaces in which cultural exchange takes place.
Online formats, audio walks, talks, workshops, network meetings and much more round off the festival program, enable the exploration of venues and (un) known locations and offer pandemic-proof encounters in digital space.
The scene’s program, the heart of the festival, presents a lively independent scene with artistic works from performance, dance, music theater, film, exhibition, figure and object theater, contemporary circus as well as children’s and youth theater that deals with current topics such as distance and isolation, the search for identity, self-perception and external attributions, digitality, vulnerability and queer feminism.
In addition, the audience can get to know the diverse locations of the independent scene on an audio venue tour. The audio tour gives an impression of what it feels like to work behind closed doors and without an audience.
With “Introducing …”, the festival Newcomer: inside the independent scene will also be offering a platform in 2021. Productions will be presented that deal creatively with the conditions of the pandemic and find new artistic ways to bring audiences and performers safely into contact met together with the four cooperating venues Ballhaus Ost, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Sophiensæle and TD Berlin from 94 submissions.
The Berlin Performing Arts Festival is also a digital meeting point, discourse and meeting place for specialist guests from all over the world. A digital meet & greet, various network meetings, venue tours and talks with cultural politicians: inside encourage exchange, invite you to discover production sites and shed light on current developments in Berlin’s independent scene
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