A performative exhibition
For the five-day festival period, the Schaubude Berlin is transformed into a haunted house. The audience is invited on a course through the entire theater.
Image gallery
Geisterhaus
Geisterhaus
KEY VISUAL Geisterhaus
The six commissioned works by Berlin artists move on the border between performance and installation and search for today's ghosts in six individually designed experience spaces.
In small groups, the audience experiences intense encounters and surprising moments in which the boundary between subject and object blurs and the relationship between people and their environment is re-examined.
Tactile tour:
On November 9th at 5:30 p.m. and on November 10th at 4:00 p.m. there will be a tactile tour through the performative exhibition with audio description. Registration by November 8th at 12:00 p.m. at ticket@schaubude.berlin
The audience moves through the entire house in groups. The venues for the works "Schule der Puppen" and "dressingroom" can only be reached via stairs, one staircase is a little steeper.
There is a step to climb to get to the venue for "Pas de Ghost". There are no seats for the most part, and it gets a bit more crowded in some venues. The audience is sometimes invited to interact with the installations.
dressingroom
Macromatter
With little spoken English
In her youth, Robin sewed costumes with her grandmothers. In her contribution to "Ghost House," she recreates these garments using inherited sewing equipment. And while she communicates with the spirits of the characters she once portrayed, she honors the matriarchs of her family with every stitch.
With this journey into her own memories and through the craft creation, Robin connects with her past while simultaneously shaping the woman she wants to become.
"Dressingroom" is an intimate meditation on identity, legacy, transformation, and how the playful power of dressing up can develop an idea of one's own path in the world.
Pas de Ghost
Theater Textura and Guests
In German spoken language
I am your shadow, your doppelganger, your dark duplicate. I show you the silhouette of your dance, which is reflected in the folds of the light. Recognize yourself as an illusion or truth when you look at yourself. In »Pas de Ghost« the shadows of puppet bodies speak up. They appear in fragments in the appearance of a candelabra, representing the human in the puppet flesh. The performative installation deals with questions of the post-enlightenment age at the boundaries of the supernatural and reality.
Direction, text, choreography Esther Nicklas Scenography Esther Nicklas, Grit Wendicke Music Joel Grip, Franziska Hoffmann Dance video Esther Nicklas (dance), Christian Ulrich (editing, design)
School of Puppets
theatreworks
In German spoken language
Are you looking for a moment of immediate intimacy, a moment in which your body animates another body? Then take a seat and let yourself be swept away by the magic of transformative energy.
Experience how you turn an inanimate object into a self-sufficient being. Atif Mohammed Nour Hussein is developing a participatory experimental setup for "House of Ghosts": In "School of Puppets," visitors learn what it means to perceive the world through the puppet and how a symbiotic relationship between humans and things can develop.
Play Sylvia Barth Direction, text, scenography Atif Mohammed Nour Hussein
thing(s)
Neïtah Janzing
In German and English spoken language
Hands. Hands that deform, that grow in size and distort. Hands that multiply and appropriate the space. Hands that hang down. Threatening. Above people and heads. The hands that create, shape and destroy. Arms without faces that express fear or love and surprise. Sometimes also begging for help... Are the hands begging for help? Or is it greed? In Neïtah Janzing's contribution to "Ghost House", the audience becomes part of a poetic ritual under superhuman and inhuman hands.
Scenography Neïtah Janzing · Music: Astra Pentaxia
Dreams of Matter #1: Sleeping in the Forest
Naoko Tanaka
Without spoken language
How can one approach the interior of the forest? Perhaps through the state of sleep? Could one even witness the collective dreams of plants and insects? Naoko Tanaka explores these questions as an artistic experiment.
For "Ghost House" she designs a space of ideas: Here the "consciousness" of non-human creatures conquers the empty theater hall and develops an artistic language from the dreams of the forest. Oscillating between the states of wakefulness and sleep, light and shadow, matter and energy, a fantasized perspective unfolds as an installation arrangement.
Installation, sound, performance Naoko Tanaka
Additional information
Dates
November 2024
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