LICHTENBERG

WILD ACCESS Lichtenberg
at Anton-Saefkow-Platz and Fennpfuhlpark in Berlin

Anton-Saefkow-Platz: an open, concrete square, tucked between neat Plattenbau housing estates, built during the GDR and heralded at the time as ideal living quarters. Shops, cafés, a library, a sports hall, easy access to the adjoining park, a fountain – as of today, its urban design carries an air of utopian living. WILD ACCESS explored who else, aside from its daily city dwellers, has made the park and the square its home. The dancers transformed into a rare species of nightly creature, inspired by the park’s wildlife. The research focused on pests, swarms, insects and the disappearance thereof, and the (invisible) role of local wildlife in urban areas.

Artistic direction, Production & Performance: Beatrix Joyce
Dance: Imola Nagy, Savina Casarin, Melissa Ferrari
Lights & costume: Lena Gätjens
Lights assistance: Marius Möllenkamp
Dramaturgy & Performance: Michela Filzi
Sound design: Jethro Cooke
Sound: Jun Suzuki
Graphics: Lucas Mateluna
Audience guides: Sydney Rabin, Sabrina Huth, Marie Pooth, Merav Leibküchler, Elisa Siegmund, Sandra Fink
Headphones provided by silentdisco.de

Performances: 14.10 / 15.10 / 16.10, meet at 19.00
Duration: approx. 60 minutes + post-show silent disco

Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste & Bezirksamt Lichtenberg
With thanks to Die Linke - Wahlkreisbüro Gute Stube Claudia Engelmann

Dorothea Tuch

Alicja Hoppel

The performance in pics

"In the dark depths of this Berlin park, the performance offers a flight of imagination and a poetic encounter with another possible inhabitant of our planet. For Parvathi Ramanathan, who was invited to come along and write about her impressions, the performance was also a reflection of how we—as humans and urban dwellers— interact with our ecosystem. "
- Parvathi Ramanathan

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Alicja Hoppel

"She shares that her interest lay in transmitting to the participating audience that sensation of encountering uncharted and unknown spaces: the edge of discomfort and awe in the face of a powerful force of nature, those butterflies in the stomach felt when gazing over a precipice— something close to perhaps what people experience in extreme sports. "
- Parvathi Ramanathan