The scent of golden pampas grass, above it the moist veil of mist, trees reaching into the sky. When I tilt my head, I hear the vibrations of the overhead railway and multilingual overlapping voices, reflected by semicircular concrete facades. Both are real, both are me. And if I continue the turn with my upper body, the taste of sweet and sticky rice returns to my tongue. Fragments of memories overlap like sediments: mobile, rubbing against each other, creating tensions, and propelling me forward. I want to retrieve the stored knowledge that helps me, strengthens me, and that I can share.

Identities are founded in diversities. The protagonist of Eventually Causing the Shake is Black, female, the middle child of several siblings, Californian, Kreuzberg resident; the waves of the Pacific Ocean left traces, the murmur of the Atlantic embedded itself… She is shaped by traversed landscapes and diasporic crossings. By lingering. And by dance. It is the medium to understand the influences of the surrounding landscapes, to experience the vibrations outside and inside and to put them in relation to each other. them in relation to each other. Because seismographic tensions run through the earth as well as the body, connecting the past to the future. Can a bridge be built through dance?

Eventually Causing the Shake is part of the dance series Wie ich werde, wie ich sein will (How I become, who I want to be) at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, in which three Black choreographers inquire about the important inspirations, solidarities, and connections for the empowerment of self-determined Black femininities.

Lois Alexander was last seen in Space Creators, directed by Jasco Viefhues at Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Eventually Causing the Shake is Lois Alexander’s first solo work at Ballhaus Naunynstraße.

Artists/Collaborators: Lois Alexander (Konzept), Cheng-Ting Chen (Bühnen), Rafael Delgado (Maske), Thais Nepomuceno (Lichtdesign), Alie O. (Musik), Alie O. (Sounddesign), Miriam Kuna Schade (Kostüm), Lerato Shadi (Dramaturgie), Rita Ventura (Produktionsleitung), Camila de Abreu (Choreografiemitarbeit), Lois Alexander

A production by Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. The first production was created as part of the dance series Wie ich werde, wie ich sein will, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin and the Capital Cultural Fund.

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