Five performers, one mistress of ceremony in a central as a musical pulsating vein on a three-dimensional playground; many crawling ants and other flickering scraps of memories reflecting silvery black futures in Germany. What do our memories look like in the future? Which part Black futures inspire us tomorrow? With what tools do we dance our way into a future we want? How do cracks and ambivalences become overcomings of identity-driven inquiry and portals for the unknown? In the dance performance «another space/memory», femBlackPerformance Collective interrogates memory as a machine-body that dances beyond itself, marking an unterwegs (on the way) where Black queer bodies are able to let go.
Information on accessibility will be published on our website 2 weeks before the performance.
Workshops Afrofuturism: Ford Kelly, Adyam Tesfamariam
Dramaturgical Support: Mariann Yar
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds (HKF) and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (IMPACT Förderung).
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. @dreamingginni
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. @ __.who.dat.__
