Echoes of the Unrooted & Pleasures That Keep You Alive

The IETM (International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts) is one of the largest international networks for contemporary performing arts. The Plenary Meetings offer a platform for the exchange of ideas on current topics in the independent performing arts community.

„Between Resistance and Togetherness – Practices in Transnational Artistic Realities"

This parkour aims to provide insights into the versatile works of Berlin theatre artists, whose work revolves around social and political pressure (or: oppression) embedded in a transnational cultural sphere. You will meet a part of the Berlin theatre scene in which multi-layered global perspectives and decolonising aesthetic practices meet with an increasingly restrictive society (and politics) in Europe and the World. The parkour not only shows the artistic works, but also the (not-always-so-ordinary) spaces in which they are created, and attempts to create de-hierarchisation opportunities for discussion around questions of aesthetic solidarity.

„Echoes of the Unrooted" - Saeed Asad Sangabi

This performance moving through the echoes of ancestral rhythms but also carries anti-folk values. a dance of contradictions, resisting tradition while still carrying its traces. Separated from the place and time that shaped them, the body turns to imagination to construct a future where lost movements reappear, distorted yet alive. It is , blurring the lines between past and future, belonging and rebellion.

„'formulas of the erotic'" - Daria Iuriichuk

Reflecting on her experience as a migrant in Berlin—a city with a reputation for sexual liberation - Daria Iuriichuk explores various 'formulas of the erotic', from seduction and pleasure to othering and reclaiming agency. Drawing on imagery from art history and pop culture, "'formulas of the erotic'" takes the audience on an erotic cruise through a play of gazes, political tensions, and moments of togetherness. What pleasures keep you alive?