Five performers, a master of ceremonies as the musical pulse of a three-dimensional playground; lots of crawling ants and other flickering snippets of memories that reflect silvery black futures in Germany.

What will memories look like in the future? Which past Black futures inspire them tomorrow? What tools do they use to dance their way into a future they want? How do cracks and ambivalences become ways of overcoming questions of identity and portals for the unforeseen?

In the dance performance another space/memory, the femBlack Performance Collective questions memories as a mechanical body that dances beyond itself and marks a journey in which Black queer bodies can let go.

60 minutes

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Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds (HKF) and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (IMPACT Förderung).Research, Concept: femBlack Performance Collective (Virginnia Ogechi Krämer, Luana Naquin, Isabel Kwarteng-Acheampong, Jasmin Eding, Mariama Sow) Choreography: Virginnia Ogechi Krämer, Luana Naquin, Isabel Kwarteng-AcheampongPerformance: Virginnia Ogechi Krämer, Luana Naquin, Isabel Kwarteng-Acheampong, Jasmin EdingSound: Lea Malaika SomVoice: Aka KelzzStage Design: Aminata CisseCostume: Mariama SowCostume Assistant: Souleymane MareProduction Team: Ihisa Adelio, Antonia BöckleVideo: Govoi/A23 Studio House and Mariama SowLight: Elliot BlueMentoring: Khadidiatou Rachel Bangoura, Magda KorsinskyWorkshops Afrofuturism: Ford Kelly, Adyam TesfamariamDramaturgical Support: Mariann Yar

Virginnia Ogechi Krämer (they/them) is a performer, writer, facilitator, and parent. Their interests range from embodied social justice to afrofuturism to cultural identity-focused artistic research and ritual. 2022 they were seen in their first solo auf den weg zu mir/auf den weg zu dir at Sophiensaele, an installative performance about afrogerman poet May Ayim's poem sein oder nicht sein. In spring 2023 Virginnia was artist in residence at Emerging Change/Tanzfabrik Berlin where they presented their solo hair pulling (WT). Together with FemBlack Performance Collective they premiered with their first production another space/memory at Berliner Ringtheater in Fall 2023. Their work currently emerges into new unknowns with a profound urge to integrate loss, genocide and (be)coming together.

Isabel Kwarteng-Acheampong (she/her, they/them) is a Black queer performer and director with a focus on intersectionality and somatic trauma healing. They are dedicated to the decolonization of bodies and work as a diversity consultant at different institutions such as HAU theatre. Aside from that they facilitate artistic projects in Ghana, Togo, and Germany to empower queer BIPoC communities and promote white allyship.

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